The ‘Week of Love’ gets a spooky touch at Tavern Behind Trincas
Free dessert-tasting session at Salt Lake’s Cafe On D Go on Sunday
Duct Tape from Berlin bringing signature drag production ‘Mamma Mia!’ to Kolkata
Sports Film Festival begins at Nandan on Wednesday
Punjabi flavours take over Alfresco at The Lalit Great Eastern
In politics and in law, in symbol and in substance, in word and in deed, India is becoming ever more like Pakistan, except that here it is Hindus, not Muslims, who rule over fellow citizens
RAMACHANDRA GUHA
Unlike Cambridge or Oxford, Indian universities remain mired in a system where appointments are shrouded in secrecy, dictated by political whims, and executed through bureaucratic edicts
SHELLEY WALIA
Earmarking jobs for economically weaker sections is necessary but considering these under reservation based on group identity by the Supreme Court was not justifiable
SUKHADEO THORAT
As students prepare for the pre-university exam, high school becomes their second home and teachers become their guardians. What will it take for daughters to be safe in school?
NEHA SAHAY
An individual in Uttarakhand and a city in West Bengal asserted an identity that has refused to be fragmented yet, and insisted on holding on to a social fabric threatened with fragility
THE EDITORIAL BOARD

Makers of Malayalam film ‘Ramji Rao Speaking’, which was adapted into ‘Hera Pheri’ in 2000, move court against Nadiadwala