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Oct 16, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Pragathi Ravi |Rama Bijapurkar |Mathangi Krishnamurthy |Sujoy Chakravarty
As the June sun shines bright, River Godavari laps up against the banks of Nathsagar in Paithan, Maharashtra. Chhaya Subhash Kuchir ambles out of her bamboo home to survey her catch. It is late morning. She returned from her fishing expedition five hours ago. “In the evening I lower the net and I pull it out at 5 am the next morning,” she says. Her catch of 5 to 6 kilos of tilapia fish fetches her an average of Rs.20 to Rs.30 a kilo every day.
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Oct 16, 2024 | frontline.thehindu.com | Pragathi Ravi |Rama Bijapurkar |Mathangi Krishnamurthy |Sujoy Chakravarty
As the June sun shines bright, River Godavari laps up against the banks of Nathsagar in Paithan, Maharashtra. Chhaya Subhash Kuchir ambles out of her bamboo home to survey her catch. It is late morning. She returned from her fishing expedition five hours ago. “In the evening I lower the net and I pull it out at 5 am the next morning,” she says. Her catch of 5 to 6 kilos of tilapia fish fetches her an average of Rs.20 to Rs.30 a kilo every day.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Rama Bijapurkar |Mathangi Krishnamurthy |Sujoy Chakravarty |M. Suresh Babu
Pakistan was established on a flawed and skewed idea and is run not by a civilian government but by its rogue army that has been dictating its every move and initiative (Cover Story, October 18). Even as India-Pak relations have come to naught, Pakistan continues to promote cross-border terrorism. And yet all its efforts to disturb India have failed miserably. It is time the civilian government of Pakistan and its military moved the coin first with India. This can only benefit both countries.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Rama Bijapurkar |Mathangi Krishnamurthy |Sujoy Chakravarty |M. Suresh Babu
Francis Itty CoraT.D. Ramakrishnan, translated by Priya K NairHarperCollins IndiaRs.399This Malayalam classic is a genre-bender combining history, myth, mystery and magic. Set in present-day Kerala, war-torn Iraq, ancient Alexandria, and Renaissance Florence, the novel is a romp through history.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Rama Bijapurkar |Mathangi Krishnamurthy |John Clarke |Tabish Khair
In this post-election period, as we reckon again with the question of what India’s future holds, front and centre is the question of the demographic dividend. By current calculations, India has the next 30 years to make hay should the young ones shine. How does one, therefore, understand the possibilities represented by this overwhelmingly high proportion of young people between the ages of 10 and 24 in the working population? Characterisations of the desi Gen Z are rampant.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Kazi Islam |Rama Bijapurkar |Mathangi Krishnamurthy |Sujoy Chakravarty
He was walking through an impassable thorny way. At one stage he turned back and saw millions of steadfast gazes fixed upon him. An incandescent lustre of seething excitement and expectation radiated from those gazes. It filled the traveller’s heart with an intoxicating pride.
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Oct 14, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Sanjay Subrahmanyam |Radhika Seshan |Rama Bijapurkar |Mathangi Krishnamurthy
The “Green Sea”, one of the terms used by Arabic speakers for the Arabian Sea, was linked to the wider world of commerce from ancient times with the earliest recorded contacts dating back to the Roman Empire. But from the 15th century, contacts increased and diversified, to include, as Sanjay Subrahmanyam has pointed out, the slave trade and movements of merchants and migrants from different parts of the Indian Ocean World and, later, the Europeans.
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Oct 12, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Aditya Sinha |Ashish Ranjan |Atul Kumar Pandey |Rama Bijapurkar
Autumn 1947, New Delhi. British rule in India had ended. Cyril Radcliffe had drawn a line dividing the subcontinent into two. In the violent Partition riots that ensued, half a million people died and 10 million fled. Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay arrived at the newly created Relief and Rehabilitation Secretariat in New Delhi seeking to resettle the thousands of refugees in desperate need of shelter and stability.
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Aug 29, 2024 | 
indianexpress.com | Rama Bijapurkar
Indigo Airlines’ latest offering enabling women fliers to select seats next to other women is utterly welcome. Forget the gender politics, it’s the joy of not having to battle an unthinking, entitled man for your share of the armrest that is just so appealing. Also, since the average male flier seems to have more body volume than the average female flier, who has also been taught through years of conditioning to “sit properly”, the men tend to occupy more “airspace” around their seats.
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Aug 22, 2024 | 
timesofindia.indiatimes.com | Rama Bijapurkar
Large e-commerce platforms haven’t played out in India quite like in the West. Here, they have empowered both small consumers and small suppliers. This is an inclusive growth storyAll modern market economies have regulations that define the rules of the marketplace, and put checks and balances on players, especially big players. Commerce and industry minister Piyush Goyal’s criticism of large e-commerce players’ practices, including “predatory pricing”, should be seen in this context.
