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Tinku Khan, Once a sports star, now a NREGA labourerThere is not a single day when Tinku Khan does not rue his decision to become a wrestler. The choice to become a sportsperson led to momentary glory, but a lifetime of agony.Khan who represented Rajasthan in the national championship in 1999 and 2002 now works as a NREGA worker in his village Sinsini tehsil in Bharatpur district. But, he is not the only one to go undergo such a fate. Wrestlers Madan Mohan, kho kho players Ramesh Chandra and Hans Raj, hockey player Bhairuji Sahu, f...
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Sitting here in the foothills of the Himalayas, the mind does tend to get full of clichés about man, nature, beauty and so on. As always, reality checks are never far away. So my mother, a retired teacher, asks me to help paraphrase a poem to help a 12-year-old boy she's helping with his school work. The "poem", grandly taught under 'literature' is not a poem at all, as it turns out. It is a song from the Hollywood musical, The Sound of Music. As a student of Eng Lit., I...
Colour of shame
Many accusations have been hurled at MF Husain, especially in the recent past. The latest one suggests that he has done something reprehensible by accepting Qatar citizenship. This would be laughable if it weren't so outrageous. All you have to do is to look at what's happened in the last 15 years.Yes, it's been that long: for a decade and half, India's one time icon has been hounded by Hindu right wing organisations for one reason or another. His museum in Ahmedabad had ...
- The Nitish effect
- Beyond symbolism
- Folly on private wheels
- Grace under strain
- Toilet test at Rashtrapati Bhavan
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The Delhi high court's decision directing the Indian armed forces to grant permanent commissions to women is a significant step to further empowerment of women. There is no need to connect this decision to the current turbulent passage of the Women's Reservation Bill in Parliament. The armed forces have remained India's most gender-insensitive and discriminatory part of the system. The high court has made it clear that this inequality is not acceptable. Currently, women can ge...
Russian realities
There is a temptation, which is forgivable, on the part of some analysts to look at Russia through the sentimental haze of India-Soviet Union equations of the Cold War era. Many of them are critical of India's new-found fondness for the United States in matters of defence and technology. They are partly justified in their misgivings about India putting most of its eggs in the American basket. The alternative does not lie in returning to old and trusted friends like the former Soviet Union, ...
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- Women's Bill: Let it bring the Girl Effect into work
- Elected or not, civic activists must work on
- To Bangalore, with love from Maya
- Dynasty could scupper gender equity
- Angry with flight delay? Try deep breathing
- Wife of CISF officer commits suicide
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