Our bodies are made of cells. Each cell is a soup of smaller components, all working together to execute the body’s various functions. Perhaps the most well-known of these components are proteins — long chains of amino acids that cells make with instructions from the DNA. When the DNA changes, the cell is able to … Read more
Lablu Mia, a 50-year-old local leader of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), was known as a devoted activist in Badarganj upazila of Rangpur district. But on April 5, his loyalty to the party meant nothing when rival BNP factions turned on each other in a vicious clash over control of a business near the upazila … Read more
Plastic chairs and string cots are arranged neatly in a semi-circle under a canopy of trees at Beguna Diha, a village on the outskirts of Mayurbhanj in Odisha. You can hear the sound of practising percussionists, as young men and women get ready for a performance. The audience slowly fills the space. As the drums … Read more
The enthusiastic campaign to keep Veeraswamys on London’s Regent Street open demonstrates Britain’s well-documented passion for Mulligatawny Soup, chicken tikka and vindaloo. The UK’s oldest Indian restaurant, the Michelin-starred Veeraswamy may not reach its centenary next year, because of a lease dispute, however it did start a curry revolution. Moving forward from the stereotypical, and … Read more
Changing his name to GauZ’ at the age of 15 was Armand Patrick Gbaka-Brédé’s first real political act. “You know, in France, Armand is a very sexy name,” says the Ivorian writer with a laugh. But, for him, it is also a name intrinsically linked to France’s cultural imperialism that had eroded the customs, traditions, … Read more
Delhi-based author Keshava Guha says reading fiction is his single, favourite activity. | Photo Credit: Shashi Shekhar Kashyap Keshava Guha’s debut novel Accidental Magic (2019) created a fictional world of Harry Potter fans from different parts of the world and varied cultural backgrounds. His second and recent novel, The Tiger’s Share (Hachette India) revolves around the lives of two … Read more
Beneath the Placid Lake at the Berlinale | Photo Credit: Leo Hugendubel When artist Kush Badhwar was living in Hyderabad in the early 2010s, his building’s caretaker suggested he might be interested in looking at the personal archive of a neighbour who had passed away. Turned out, it belonged to Radha Krishna Sarma, a professor … Read more
A few months after my little boy turned three, we went to stay with Phuphee for a few weeks. He loved playing in her garden and we would go on all sorts of adventures in the apple orchard that sprawled behind the house. It was a wonderful time, or so it seemed until he would … Read more
Ahmedabad, April 23: Mr. Gandhi writes in today’s Young India saying that the Travancore Government is giving full effect to the agreement arrived at between the Commissioner of Police and himself. He hopes that before long the prohibition against the use by the Untouchables of the public roads surrounding the temples will be a thing … Read more
Marion Calder, centre, and Susan Smith, left, from For Women Scotland, celebrate outside the U.K. Supreme Court in London on April 16, 2025 after the court ruled that a woman is someone born biologically female, excluding transgender people from the legal definition in a long-running dispute between the feminist group and the Scottish government. | … Read more