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Signs of revival for tourism in Kashmir
March 16, 2021
The owners of Srinagar’s famous shikaras (boats) on the equally famous Dal Lake are optimistic about the year 2021, after having spent the past two years waiting for the rare tourist who had ventured into the valley. The shikara operators hope that finally 2021 will mark a turn...
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From Gandhi to Guevara, all present at farmers’ protest
March 15, 2021
For 66-year-old Kuldeep Singh from Uttar Pradesh’s Balrampur, reading is a new found love. He spends most of his day reading newspapers, magazines or short stories of famous Hindi author Premchand, and when he feels demotivated – a biography of Shaheed Bhagat Singh, a freedom...
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Gautam Adani zooms ahead in Bloomberg Billionaires Index
March 14, 2021
For over a decade, Ahmedabad-based businessman Gautam Adani lived in the shadow of fellow Gujarati entrepreneur Mukesh Ambani whose Reliance Industries raced ahead to become the largest private company in the country, propelling Ambani to the select list of one of the richest per...
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Weather has changed, not our demands: Farmers at Ghazipur border
March 13, 2021
The ongoing farmers’ protest against the three farm laws at Delhi borders, which recently completed 100 days, has formed new solidarities across castes and communities at the Ghazipur border, say the protesting farmers. Calling themselves the ‘soldiers of Tikait’ (Rakesh Ti...
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Need to make menstrual products gender neutral: Trans activists
March 13, 2021
On the way back from a recent camping trip, Rupanshu George stopped at a public washroom. But first, he counted the cars in the parking lot. Then, walking into the corridor, he glanced at the checkout counter (was a man or a woman handling the register). And then, he scanned the...
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With new OCI rules, India continues to distance from diaspora
March 12, 2021
Last week, in a sudden, though not very surprising development, the Indian government announced a flurry of changes to the rules governing the status and rights of the Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) cardholders. Now, any OCI will have to get special permission from the Foreign R...
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Crimes increasing, cases piling up: State of India’s environment
March 10, 2021
Soon after the release of State of Indian Environment, 2021, a report about the current state of the environment in India, public interest litigation was filed in the Supreme Court asking the top court to issue directions for urgently filling up of large-scale vacancies that have...
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Farm talks at WTO continue to undermine Indian farmers
March 9, 2021
On March 10, the agricultural negotiations committee of the World Trade Organisation will undertake yet another round of discussion on numerous contentious issues that have been lined up for discussions by the Geneva-based trade regulator. These talks are significant for several ...
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Unemployment pushes Malayalee exodus to return to Gulf
March 9, 2021
Gijo Panchachikkal, 51, worked in Bahrain as a manager in a private automobile firm for over 10 years. However, in November 2020, Panchachikkal was forced to go back to Kerala as he lost his job due to the pandemic. Since then, he has been trying to run a business in Kerala by as...
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Thomas Cook-SOTC to tap booming women travellers’ segment
March 8, 2021
A report released by Thomas Cook India & SOTC, Second Holiday Readiness Report (December 2020), says that Indian women travellers are displaying a strong appetite for holidays. It says 65 pc of women respondents are keen to travel in the next six months and a significant 72 ...
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Remembering Sahir Ludhianvi – the pacifist poet
March 8, 2021
“Kaho ki ab koi tajir idhar ka rukh na kare, Ab is ja koi kavari na bechi jaegi; Ye khet jag pade, uth khadi huyi fasalein, Ab is jagah koi kyari na bechi jaegi” Roughly translates to ‘ask no traders to come here, no more girls will be sold, And tell them that fields have [...
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International Women’s Day 2021 in India: Little to cheer about
March 8, 2021
For a country that is home to the second largest population of women in the world and which has spiritually put women on a pedestal of Goddess, the women in India have continued to suffer from rampant discrimination in all aspects of life, right from gender selection before birth...
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