The editor's selection of Thoughtful India's longer reporting and analysis on India, its diaspora and Indian American life.
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An anonymous Bangalore group called The Ugly Indian rejected blame and started spotfixing dirty streets. A TI essay on civic responsibility, from the archives.
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In November 2014, Shama and Shehzad Masih were beaten and burned in the Kot Radha Kishan brick kiln where they worked. A TI account of a lynching that
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Babar Ali of Murshidabad began teaching children in his parents' backyard at nine — and at sixteen the BBC called him the world's youngest headmaster.
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In 2014, Suchitra Sharma asked why parents perform their children's achievements on Facebook. The humblebrag is older now — and bigger. From the TI archives.
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In 2014, Suchitra Sharma called out shoe-sale ads that portrayed women as deal-obsessed dimwits. A prescient media critique, from the TI archives.
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Guest critic Lopamudra Banerjee Dhar on Vishal Bhardwaj's Haider — Hamlet in Kashmir, the Army portrayal, and why revenge can't buy freedom.
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You can't 'boost' your immune system like a phone battery — and trying can backfire. What actually keeps immune function working: sleep, movement, food, and
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On October 3, 2014, Modi launched Mann Ki Baat, the monthly radio address that became a fixture of his premiership. A TI essay, from the archives.
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In October 2014, Thomas Eric Duncan became the first Ebola case diagnosed in the US — and Dallas panicked. What actually happened, from the TI archives.
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In 2014, a Los Angeles Craigslist ad openly offered PayPal cash for posting fake 5-star Yelp reviews. TI's original piece, from the archives.
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In 2014, women-empowerment videos flooded YouTube. A TI essay asks the harder question: what happens after the watching?
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In October 2014, Mark Zuckerberg visited India to address the Internet.org summit and meet PM Modi — his bid to connect the world's 5 billion offline.
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On September 28, 2014, PM Modi told 20,000 at Madison Square Garden that PIO cardholders would get lifetime visas and the PIO and OCI schemes would merge.
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Samantha Lewthwaite went from the widow of a 7/7 bomber to one of the world's most wanted terrorism suspects. TI's 2014 profile, reviewed as an archive.
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Gifted children think differently — and that comes with emotional challenges: sensitivity, teasing, perfectionism, existential worry.
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Emma Watson's 2014 UN speech launching the HeForShe campaign reframed feminism as a human issue, becoming one of the most-shared videos of the year.
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On September 19, 2014, Obama and Biden launched 'It's On Us,' a national campaign asking young men to intervene to stop campus sexual assault.
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Turmeric is one of the most studied spices — but 'as effective as 14 drugs' misreads the science. What curcumin research really says, and why
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If you weren’t living under a rock, the Bollywood aficionados among you have read about Deepika Padukone’s recent outburst on Twitter. She accused TOI of…
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In September 2014, six Naperville women opened Janani Inc., a Vastu-compliant Indian grocery on 95th Street. A TI community notice, from the archives.
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