Nautanki Saala and Other Stories By Mohua Chinappa OakBridge Publishing
As the dust settles on the assembly election results, it is time to get to know the new winners: In Uttar Pradesh, 205 (51%) of the 403 winning candidates have declared criminal cases against themselves, according to an analysis by the Association
A World of Equals: A Textbook on Gender Edited by Susie Tharu, A. Suneetha and Uma Maheswari Bhrugubanda Orient BlackSwan, 170 pages, Rs
Rising: 30 Women Who Changed India By Kiran Manral Rupa Public
From Lucknow to Lutyens: The Power and Plight of Uttar Pradesh By Abhigyan Prakash
An estimated 7 million people die of burn injuries every year in India, making it the largest group of injuries after road accidents. 80% of those who suffer burn injuries are women and children. Almost 1-1.5 lakh people get crippled and need mult
Bangladesh: Writings on 1971, Across Borders Edited by Rakhshanda Jalil and Debjani Sengupta Orient BlackSwan, Rs. 875.00, 292 pages
In a bonanza of sorts, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation fixed deposits have jumped from Rs 78,000 crore to over Rs 92,000 crore during in eight months. The 18% growth in the FD kitty has come after the state government reduce
Faces of Inequality Stories of the Poor and underprivileged from India’s grassroots By Pradeep Baisakh Notion Press, Rs 350, 310 pages [
India is home to 313 million illiterate people, 59 percent of whom are women. This has a staggering socio-economic cost.Square Panda works with a vision to engage with State Governments across country to roll out FLN Solution into the realm of FLN
In a dramatic turn of events, Maharashtra minorities affairs minister Nawab Malik was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) Wednesday, becoming the second minister of the state’s MVA government to be arrested by the central probe agen
Escalating tensions between Russia and Ukraine have made the Indian government worried if the market situation is conducive but it will go ahead with the upcoming initial public offering of the state-run insurance giant behemoth LIC, finance minis
Ahead of the 2024 parliamentary elections, to form a strong third front of regional parties against the ruling BJP at the centre, Telangana chief minister K. Chandrasekar Rao visited Mumbai and met Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray as we
The government needs to do to its disinvestment deals in a transparent and above-board manner and ensure that deals are free from the investigative scanner, well-known banker and chartered accountant Naina Lal Kidwai has said. Givin
With more than 300 chickens found dead at a poultry farm in Vehloli village of Shahapur tehsil in Thane district, authorities have declared area within 1 km radius as contagious. As many as 300 chickens and 9 ducks were found dead i
Prime minister Narendra Modi will dedicate to the nation two additional railway lines connecting Thane and Diva via video conferencing on Friday. He will also flag off two suburban trains of the Mumbai Suburban Railway followed by his address.
Being a diplomat is a fulltime job, in which Abhay K., an Indian Foreign Service (IFS) officer, spends most of his working hours. Like all diplomats and indeed the rest of us, he manages to make time for something that he finds as important as the
The RBI Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) in its bi-monthly policy announcement Thursday kept the repo rate unchanged at 4%. The reverse repo rate is also kept unchanged at 3.35%. The MPC decided to continue “accommodative stance as long as ne
When Mommy was a Little Girl Edited by Pranav Kumar Singh Illustrated delectably by Abhilasha Khatri Ponytale Books, 152 pages, Rs 299 When Sasha was growing up in Russia, she would of
Welcoming the finance minister’s budget announcement of the introduction of Digital Rupee, Nischal Shetty, founder and CEO, WazirX, a bitcoin exchange platform that allows users to buy or sell the cryptocurrencies available in the market, ha
