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Homes are for living in but they can be sites of great insecurity…

While minority rights are eroded, Pakistan enjoys impunity as a ‘strategic ally’ of the US, writes Mari Marcel Thekaekara.…

Contact with a former mentor has triggered memories for Mari Marcel Thekaekara, decades on from her journalism training in Kolkata.…

A revealing set of US studies has got Urvashi Butalia thinking about how the rich behave in Delhi.…

The world’s conflicts require journalists to be unbiased and incorruptible…

The Sikh community at the centre of the latest US shooting have much to teach us about togetherness says Mari Marcel Thekaekara.…

Mari Marcel Thekaekara is horrified by the latest addition to the global skin-lightening fetish as women are encouraged to bleach down below.…

In some Indian communities a girl's first period is treated with great fanfare, in others it is a carefully kept secret, says Mari Marcel Thekaekara.…

Families are slowly melting away from the Bay of Bengal coastline as habitats degrade…

Ten years after the violence that led to hundreds of deaths in the Indian state of Gujarat,deep divisions still remain, saysMari Marcel Thekaekara.…