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(This story is part of The Hindu on Books newsletter that comes to you with book reviews, reading recommendations, interviews with authors and more. Subscribe here.) Welcome to this edition of The Hindu on Books Newsletter. The longlist of the second edition of the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction was announced last week, and it is dominated by British … Read more

(In the weekly Health Matters newsletter, Ramya Kannan writes about getting to good health, and staying there. You can subscribe here to get the newsletter in your inbox.) Among the more pressing concerns today, given the changing global health environment and the withdrawal of a major funding source – the United States- are those about emerging pathogens. Only a very short … Read more

Shanghai, Feb. 18: A strike which began in a Japanese cotton mill here last week has spread to thirteen other mills and thirty thousand operatives are now involved. The strikers attacked the mills and damaged the machinery and injured half a dozen Japanese. The situation is now quieter. The trouble is partly due to the … Read more

Ranveer Allahbadia. Photo: Special Arrangement There is a moral panic over a show called India’s Got Latent. Much of the furore centres around some crude remarks made by a YouTuber, Ranveer Allahbadia. His remarks have been condemned by Chief Ministers, a Parliamentary Standing Committee, and even the Supreme Court. On India’s Got Latent, which was … Read more

CEC appointment Riding roughshod over the other pillars of democracy has been the practice of the government of the day. As the face off between the executive and the judiciary is well known, the manner of the appointment of the new Chief Election Commissioner of India is likely to invite the ire of the top … Read more

Resurrecting ‘Brand AP’

Two years ago, on February, 6, 2023, the people of Türkiye and Syria were jolted out of their sleep. At least 17,000 were killed, with their numbers mounting within minutes, as a great earthquake shook those countries in the early hours after 4 a.m., at 7.8 on a scale of 0 to 10. A second … Read more

As the world’s most populous country, India hopes to reap its demographic dividend due to its burgeoning youth population. Demographers and policy planners always knew that this window of opportunity would remain open, but only for a limited time. Declining school enrolment over the past decade marks the beginning of the end of this period. … Read more

When the March 29, 1987 issue of the popular Tamil magazine Ananda Vikatan hit the stands two days earlier, it created a stir in Tamil Nadu. On its cover page was a cartoon showing the dais of a public meeting. In the forefront, two persons were shown seated prominently in front of the mike. Behind … Read more

Tamil Nadu has a history of opposing “exemplar” school initiatives of Central governments. State governments opposed Rajiv Gandhi’s Navodaya schools. The PM SHRI schools are being opposed now. | Screenshot: Website of https://pmshri.education.gov.in/ The latest exchange of words between Union Minister of Education Dharmendra Pradhan and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. K. Stalin and School … Read more