It also follows that plagiarism is endemic and integral to academic worlds; and that professionals plagiarise in ways that they will get away with. The
Though not in deliberate imitation, the new clothes advocated by the dress reformers were much similar to that of men’s more user-friendly and comfortable pants-like
‘Dreadlocks’ were not, in fact, from North America, nor were they from the ‘original’ African cultures that former slaves were forced to forget in American
But a name tells you not very much more than distant origins; and the same name, from the same part of the world, can be
I can read 'Hindi'; I can speak bad Hindi if I am allowed to disregard all rules of gender; and I can write it if
Right from the moment of his capture, Caesar simply refused to behave like a captive. When the pirates told him that they had set his
He has created a community educational and medical haven in the heart of Tikiapara, Howrah, and mobilized a movement for social change in an extremely
Each story portrays the various challenges lesbians face in living lesbian lives, either secretly or in the open. The book gives the reader insight in
The story of my friend is the story of every Indian and perhaps most people across the world. Our society, religion and culture have depersonalised,
The books that we now read, and which appear at bookshops once self-labelled as ‘left’, are less about the (apparently always predominantly white, male, and
The reason could be multiple for women to not speak up. Most are frightened, because the judgement is severe, if she fails. The truth that
The propensity to prevent potentially successful people from attaining success and the predilection to begrudge, resent, or mock people who succeed, who have talent, who
These questionable controversial verses that came to be known as ‘satanic verses,’ authorized intercessory prayers to al-Lat, al-Uzza and Manat — three Meccan female deities.
When India won Independence from British colonisers 75 years ago, woen played a key role in the freedom movement. But, are they free in the
The outdoors is a multisensory world and when a child connects with the outdoor elements, all their vital senses are heightened.
What happens to the great banyan tree, lying in a vacant spot in our garden? Don’t we look up to it in awe and derive
