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    The release of the book is perfectly timed to coincide with the month of the birth anniversary of Ganguly (July 18), the first female doctor to practise in India, and the International Doctors Day (July 1). (Image: Amazon)Lifestyle
    Book Review | Clear-eyed and engrossing look back at six Indian...

    To her credit, Kavitha Rao’s Lady Doctors: The Untold Stories of India’s First Women in Medicine steers clear of...

    1 Aug 2021 1:05 AM IST

    New Zealand weightlifter Laurel Hubbard.Sports
    The Laurel Hubbard controversy: Transwomen vs women in sport

    Should transwomen compete with women? Should intersex sport be a separate category?

    10 July 2021 11:38 AM IST

    Cover photo of Between Freedom and Unfreedom: The Press in Independent India by V. Krishna AnanthLifestyle
    Book Review | Free speech, fake news & the Indian press

    For the sake of authenticity, the author, a newspaper industry veteran, restricts his scrutiny to the print media

    4 July 2021 3:28 AM IST

    A COVID-19 patient receives free oxygen, provided by a Sikh organization at Indirapuram Gurudwara, in Ghaziabad. (Photo: PTI)Opinion
    Sucheta Dasgupta | Hope in the time of sorrow and C-virus

    Despite its no-pussyfooting bravado and stupendous majority, the govt did not declare a lockdown on Holi. The Kumbh...

    25 April 2021 12:00 AM IST

    Until a generation ago, there were two kinds of Muslims in India, the Communists and the conformists, Wahab says. DC ImageLifestyle
    Book Review: Onus on the moderate Muslim to reclaim Islam's heterodox...

    The predominant view about Sufism is that it exists outside Islam as a cult born out of the admixture of Hinduism with...

    11 April 2021 8:43 AM IST

    Jaipur Literature Festival (Photo: Facebook @JaipurLitFest)Lifestyle
    Sucheta Dasgupta | JLF 2021: Tharoor skewers Sandel

    It's not just about creative writing; the Jaipur Literature Festival is a festival of ideas

    28 Feb 2021 4:35 AM IST

    Jaipur Literary Festival (Image: Twitter@GauravS36197247)Lifestyle
    The Diggi dialogues: Conversations from JLF 2021, largest literary...

    S. Hareesh's controversial novel, Moustache (original Meesha) has won the 2020 JCB Prize for Literature

    21 Feb 2021 4:15 AM IST

    Relatively speaking, compared with her older siblings, Saeeda Bano was definitely the rebel in her family, says ShahanaLifestyle
    ‘Even forthright women can be submissive’

    Around the time she asked me to translate her book we had grown quite close, without really realising it - Shahana Raza

    6 Dec 2020 10:47 AM IST

    A puppet show on Hans Christian Andersens fairy tales from the first Rainbow Lit FestLifestyle
    One of a kind: A humdinger of an LGBT arts fest

    Dr Bibek Debroy and Dr Shashi Tharoor are keynote speakers of this one-year-old, two-day, online fest.

    18 Nov 2020 7:28 PM IST

    Telling the India story, one dream at a timeLifestyle
    Telling the India story, one dream at a time

    -'A Burning-' is an intimate and clear-eyed rendering of the lives and dreams of three people

    18 Oct 2020 7:48 PM IST

    The Women’s Party: An opening manifestoOpinion
    The Women’s Party: An opening manifesto

    There are three ways of ensuring equality of opportunity between the sexes — free access, affirmative action and...

    2 Aug 2020 5:02 PM IST

    How many women need not state their purpose before leaving the homestead, even to go to the park, especially to go to the park because it is a discretionary destination? AFP PhotoOpinion
    Sucheta Dasgupta | The almost-stigma of not breaking quarantine

    Being quarantined is, at its very benign, a social fact' in the life of the Bharatiya aurat

    31 May 2020 1:30 AM IST

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