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Online education may have its takers in urban schools, but has pushed students and teachers in rural India deeper into the margins

Kannada writer and physician Guruprasad Kaginele on the English translation of his book ‘Hijab’, and the unmaking and remaking of identity in immigrants

Cyclone Amphan revives dark memories of a violent cyclone that battered Odisha a little more than 20 years ago

As underpaid and exhausted health workers fight the Covid-19 crisis, it’s time to turn to former doctor Adam Kay’s hilarious and heartbreaking book on life in a hospital

The Indian diaspora in the US gets centre stage in Mindy Kaling’s Never Have I Ever, streaming on Netflix

With online learning in great demand during the lockdown, startups in this teaching space are cashing in

Even as we anxiously await news of a vaccine for Covid-19, there are worries over which nations will be the first in line to get it and how effective it will be in a country such as India

Despite having the option to leave during the lockdown, several expatriates stayed back in India, having made a home in the country

Welcome to the new normal of air travel — courtesy Covid-19    

Kolkata is mourning the loss of 5,000 trees, victims of Cyclone Amphan, in the way a family laments the dead

It may not be the cocoon of love and comfort, but it is where we head when all else is lost

With museums out of bounds due to the lockdown, a writer falls back on the last ones she visited — in Dublin and Edinburgh — for comfort

Ulley, near Leh, is where minimalism and contentment live together happily ever after

As families and friends struggle to say their final goodbyes to loved ones due to quarantine and social distancing, some are finding virtual ways to comfort the bereaved

Urban schools have taken recourse to online classes in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic. Educationist Wilima Wadhwa explains why it isn’t yet a viable option in rural India

A newspaper addict longs to once again grab hold of printed sheets that fill silences across breakfast tables, help ripen Alphonso mangoes and shield him from agitated news anchors

We dig for the truth. So you don't have to

Two new visual archives attempt to go beyond the artist’s works and techniques to capture the history of the era in which he lived, worked and did business

Raageshwari Loomba Swaroop, whose songs topped the charts in the ’90s, discusses her new book, embracing messes, and thriving after being diagnosed with Bell’s palsy

From ‘Dolly Parton’s America’ to NASA’s official podcast channel, here are six new podcasts to keep you sane and relaxed during the lockdown

Meena Kandasamy’s ‘Exquisite Cadavers’ joins a club of books where experiments with typesetting add a new layer to the narrative

The journey of migrants walking back to their homes hundreds of miles away finds resonance in the story of Kamala, the protagonist of Geetu Mohandas’s Liar’s Dice

Let’s press play on three blues albums extending their hands in a bluesy greeting

The lack of urgency in the Centre’s ‘stimulus package’ to revive the virus-stricken economy may end up prolonging the agony it is aimed at easing