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Facebook post ended up burning a town and landed two boys in jail in Jharkhand
Adil’s father and younger brother; The minor’s house in Dhori is locked, the family left a few days after the arrest. Prashant Pandey THE morning newspaper of March 17 had left Mohammad Enamul Haq,...
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A day in the life of Vinod Sonkar, fruit vendor near the flyover collapse...
A day in the lifeof Vinod Sonkar , 37, fruit vendor selling fruits just in front of collapsed flyover in Kolkata. Express photo by Partha Paul “I thought it was an earthquake, we ran away from the...
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Two colours: How ‘common enemy’ in university campuses united Jai Bheem, Lal...
Almost every protest march during the recent unrest at JNU began and ended with slogans of ‘Jai Bhim’, ‘Lal Salaam’. (Source: Express Photo by Tashi Tobgyal) Written by Aranya Shankar in Delhi,...
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Congress XS: The wait for Rahul Gandhi to step up leaves party in a limbo
Illustration: C R Sasikumar This time last year, the Congress was waiting for Rahul Gandhi to return from a sabbatical that stretched to 56 days. He landed on April 16 morning, as unexpectedly, to...
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Lessons from history: When Ambedkar, Left came together, when they didn’t
For long, Ambedkar’s writings on caste and social exploitation were ignored by Left ideologues. Speaking at a function to commemorate the 125th birth anniversary of Babasaheb Ambedkar in Chennai on...
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The Cop and the Criminal: Murder of NIA officer Tanzeel Ahmed
NIA officer Tanzil Ahmad was shot dead in Bijnor Some 400 years ago, a Muslim cleric and scholar named Maulana Shafiqulla is said to have come and settled in the fertile agricultural zone of present...
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From the lab: Why some spiral galaxies beat the ‘bulge’
Photo for representational purpose. (Wikipedia) Galaxies are the fundamental building blocks of our visible universe, each containing billions of stars, like our Sun. They can broadly be classified...
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Everywhere some movement is taking shape… There is a possibility of some sort...
Jamia Millia Islamia University Vice-Chancellor Talat Ahmad (right) with Delhi City Editor Apurva at The Indian Express office. (Express Photo by Ravi Kanojia) An Earth scientist, Talat Ahmad assumed...
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Last spirit standing: A day in the life of a 50-year-old toddy tapper in Bihar
Following the ban, Lali’s toddy stock, at Rs 10 a mug, gets sold out immediately. (Express Photo by Prashant Ravi) Lali Choudhary, 50, was all of 13 when he learnt to climb palm and date trees. He...
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Six feet under: Why did a shoe-shiner have to die in Mumbai Police custody?
Arvind’s place at Churchgate station has been quickly taken up. (Express Photo by Abhijit Alka Anil) For a month now, Arvind Ramesh Shimpi’s body has been lying in the morgue of J J Hospital in...
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The waterway: What it takes to run India’s longest water train
It was in January 2013 that Maharashtra first considered running water trains. It was again to provide water to drought-hit Marathwada. At a Cabinet meeting, then chief minister Prithviraj Chavan said...
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Shayara Banu’s fight against triple talaq
At her parents’ home in Kashipur. Shayara hasn’t met her two children since she left Allahabad last April. (Express Photo by Ravi Kanojia) The photograph of the bride in her wedding finery, her...
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Ground Zero: Back to Nepal, a year after earthquake
On Wednesday, five families sat amongst nearly 15 others for a formal meeting of a committee set up to discuss an upcoming academic session, in tents located in Naya Basti, Boudh, Kathmandu. The...
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Revisiting Shah Bano’s Family, 31 years later: ‘My mother got threats after...
Daughter Siddiqua Ahmed says her father stopped practising law after losing the case in 1985 to Shah Bano, “because he took it as an insult”. (Express Photo by Milind Ghatwai) “My mother was a simple...
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A day in the life of a taxidermist at Bombay Veterinary College
Santosh Gaikwad at work at the country’s only taxidermy centre, at Sanjay Gandhi National Park in Mumbai. He is in-charge of the centre. (Source: Express photo Vasant Prabhu) When a fire gutted rare...
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Do we need more judges? CJI Thakur’s plea to the govt raises key questions
Illustration: C R Sasikumar Last Sunday, addressing the conference of Chief Justices and Chief Ministers, Chief Justice of India (CJI) Tirath Singh Thakur became emotional as he spoke about the...
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Tearing at the seams: A murder, factional battle threaten a 159-year-old Sikh...
The murder of ‘Mataji’ Chand Kaur at their heavily guarded dera in Bhaini Sahib has shaken the Namdhari sect. Gurmeet Singh AT THE imposing entrance of the Namdhari headquarters at Bhaini Sahib, some...
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A day in the life of Shah Rukh Khan’s fans outside ‘Mannat’
Being Mannat on a Sunday is hard work. Bombarded with the harsh flashes of eager cameras, the fortress on Bandstand in Mumbai’s Bandra West, that houses Shah Rukh Khan and his family, has hundreds of...
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I know who I am, what I wish to do: ‘Ashiana rape victim’
The girl appeared over 60 times in three different trials in the case. (Source: Express photo by Vishal Srivastav) Long after the pain of the gangrape subsided, it was the thumb impressions a social...
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Coast to coast: Travelling through the poll-bound southern states
E P Unny travels through the poll-bound southern states of Kerala, Tamil Nadu and the union territory of Puducherry to find interchanged campaign styles and voter attitudes, but not one confident...
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