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Celebrate Bhoot Chaturdashi with ghost stories and a Bengali feast
CIMA Art Mela brings Indian masters and emerging artists to Delhi
Mezcalita and Little Bit Sober bring Mexican cocktails to Kolkata
Burma Burma’s new menu celebrates culinary connections between India and Burma
Quiet, ongoing, civic vigilance and enforcement is a core duty of governance, but this doesn't seem to have registered in the mind of a single West Bengal politician in the last 50 years
RUCHIR JOSHI
A national code, imposed in one legislative stroke across a subcontinent, is far harder to calibrate if it triggers the kind of backlash that followed the Shah Bano controversy
GHULAM YAZDANI, SHASHANK SHEKHAR
At a time when countries need more forests and green cover to sustain water sources, governments are doing the exact reverse. The hypocrisy here is hard to miss
SANJOY HAZARIKA
Upsetting the three plus two design of university education has gained little. The FYUP was not seriously thought-out, possibly because experts and stakeholders were not consulted
THE EDITORIAL BOARD
The Centre has a legitimate point when it says that interfering with prices might discourage investment. But as the apex court pointed out, commerce cannot take precedence over the lives of citizens
THE EDITORIAL BOARD
A 21-year-old man allegedly entered a classroom in Andhra’s Anantapur district last week and attacked a Class 10 student with a mechanised chainsaw