Interview: ‘Augment capacity instead of running Vande Bharat luxury trains that add to congestion’
Our trunk routes are running 25% above capacity, compromising safety, speed, says retired Indian Railways engineer Alok Kumar Verma.
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Ramachandra Guha: In Mannu Bhandari’s memoir, an unflinching spotlight on Indian patriarchy
Ladki Bahin scheme pushed Maharashtra’s women welfare budget up by about 12,700% in a year: CAG
Eating out-eating in: How food apps have changed family bonds in urban India
For children: Khichdi, mulligatawny soup, and other culinary gifts from India to the world
‘Register Me as Kulbhushan’: This Bengal partition novel is a paean to the human ability to adapt
Why the India-US bilateral trade deal is on hold
‘Madras Curry’: How an ‘untouchable’ food become a global dish
‘Satluj’ is mired in the same murkiness that the film seeks to expose
Shahrnush Parsipur, author of ‘Women Without Men’: Iran loses one of its bravest literary voices