Opinion

Asia Cup: Abusing Arshdeep Singh is not quite cricket

The game of cricket in India has not always been settled on the field. But events after the recent India- Pakistan match show how sport itself can be made incidental, a mere excuse.In 2007 even MS Dhoni was not spared when his house in Ranchi was attacked after India’s loss to Bangladesh in th...

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What explains the angst and aggression in young adults

Age of innocence — if ever there was a misnomer today, it is this. In a heady mix of exposure, identity, and gender, a ‘woke’ generation is lapping up content that is predominantly dark and edgy, while it ‘finds’ itself.Glance through shelves catering to young adults in...

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Why is suicide so rampant in women?

In the almost daily grind of brute muscle power, bigotry, and distraction surrounding us in India, a trail of issues that need urgent intervention are being compromised.In the recent weeks a 35- year- old fashion designer, Prathyusha Garimella killed herself in the washroom of her Hyderabad boutique...

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The cost of beauty in India

Beauty lies in the eye of the beholder, it was once casually said. No longer, for there is nothing casual in the desperation for almost cloned perfection. A 21-year-old woman passed away from complications after a ‘fat- free’ surgery or liposuction to remove ‘excess fat.’ Tel...

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Disability rights under the spotlight

The sordid incident is momentary, the malaise within us deep rooted and prejudiced. To stop a special-needs child from boarding a flight because his demeanour was a ‘risk to other passengers’ is not arrogance or stupidity. It is instead symptomatic of a callous society that has time and ...

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India urgently needs the marital rape law

That even now we are debating the criminality of marital rape speaks volumes of the ambiguity with which policymakers in India continue to address what is an open and shut case.Instead in court it was the same old circumlocution by the centre saying it was looking at the broad changes in criminal la...

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Vaccinating the young: Has India left it too late?

Finally, 15-18 age group in India is lining up for COVID-19 vaccination and it is not a day too soon. Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal who attended a political rally recently has tested positive, the unfathomable night curfews are back across some Indian states and there is no longer any doubt o...

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Omicron: Learning to live with uncertainty

Is this what they say about living in the moment? Only the moment we find ourselves in is what many experts have already been cautioning about as the new normal — the inevitability of living with Covid that becomes endemic or at least stays among us for a long indefinite while. The warnings ar...

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This Diwali is a time for collective healing

This week my editor asked if I wanted to write a piece on Diwali. After an instinctive hmmm … because the last time I wrote about the festival was an essay in school but more importantly because you can’t upset your editor, I ultimately decided to dive in.As I write this though, I can t...

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Instagram is toxic for teens

It is a ‘deep dive’ — to quote Facebook’s own researchers, though not really into the unknown. But this time, the anecdotes and the murmurs are being backed by a disturbing report that not just indicts the social media giant’s brazen ride through accusations of big tech...