12+ hour, 35+ min ago   (828+ words) According to the Union government’s Elderly in India 2021 report, people aged 60 and above accounted for 16.5 per cent of Keralam’s population in 2021. That figure is projected to rise to 20.9 per cent by 2031, compared with a national projection of 13.1 per cent. In…...

1+ day, 10+ hour ago   (1719+ words) In an exclusive interview with The Federal, Gowda, Professor and Dean, School of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Vidyashilp University, Bengaluru, talks about his latest book, Longing for an Elsewhere: Mysore and the Making of India’s Developmental State, Mysuru’s pursuit of…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago   (814+ words) But for National Award-winning Kattaikkuttu artist P Thilagavathy, 36, the stage is no longer reserved only for mythological battles. With her, the centuries-old Tamil folk theatre form is confronting real-time problems such as climate change, gender equality in the workplace, menstrual…...

4+ day, 4+ hour ago   (1043+ words) Remember Khairlanji, the village in Maharashtra's Bhandara district that had witnessed a horrific massacre of four members of the Dalit Bhotmange family by upper castes in 2006? The incident created rage among Dalits all over the world and led to massive…...

4+ day, 9+ hour ago   (1115+ words) West Bengal’s ongoing census exercise has run into an unusual problem, with many households allegedly understating their assets, income and living conditions amid fears that disclosure could affect access to welfare schemes. The curious trend appears to stem from misgivings…...

5+ day, 7+ hour ago   (890+ words) Dr Aysha Mohammed, a 33-year-old postgraduate dental surgeon working in Doha, Qatar, spent more than three weeks sitting in protest outside her estranged husband’s parental house at Edakkazhiyur in Chavakkad, Thrissur, Keralam. She came to the house demanding what she…...

5+ day, 9+ hour ago   (875+ words) Sweden is imagined as the land of equality, modesty and Jantelagen -- the unwritten rule that no one should think they are better than anyone else. But there has also been a fascination within Sweden with its billionaires, especially those who…...

6+ day, 8+ hour ago   (601+ words) Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s latest outreach to the youth took a distinctly Gen Z turn on Tuesday (September 8) as he attended the ‘NaMo for Viksit Bharat’ programme at Maharaja Sayajirao University in Vadodara, Gujarat. The Gen Z touch in the…...

6+ day, 13+ hour ago   (638+ words) There is more to the Congress party’s reshuffle of its state in-charges than the headline-drawing replacement of Bhupesh Baghel with Sachin Pilot at the helm of the party’s affairs in Punjab. As Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge reassigned the responsibility of…...

6+ day, 17+ hour ago   (573+ words) Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been quoted as saying that “federalism is no longer the fault line of Centre-state relations but the definition of a new partnership of Team India”. This was in the aftermath of the launch of the…...