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From Rati Agnihotri to Shweta Tiwari, brave women have walked out of abusive marriages. A personal essay on domestic violence — and why too many still stay.

Read an excerpt from Koral Dasgupta's novel Fall Winter Collections — a sculptor's journey in Santiniketan, carving Krishna's women in black stone.

In Indirapuram, Ghaziabad, Anuradha Mishra Jain feeds 70 strays daily and runs 'Hope for the Speechless Soul' — a one-woman shelter for Delhi's injured dogs.

WotNow, the local Naperville social-calendar app, was hiring summer interns for 2015 — info desks at Naperville libraries, five hours a week minimum.

From the ₹1 shagun to the nimbu-mirchi totka: a tour of the superstitions — kala tika, black cats, knives as gifts — woven into everyday Indian life.

Suchitra Sharma reflects on how Facebook memorialized accounts keep a loved one's presence alive — 'life goes on' even after death, in the virtual world.

Pamela Druckerman's delightful reflection on the small, hard-won lessons of middle age — from spotting narcissists to the joy of unmedicated sleep.

A simple five-step wake-up routine — set intentions at night, move the alarm across the room, hydrate, and get dressed to move — that makes early mornings

Lauren Singer's Trash is for Tossers: the young woman who made no trash in two years — no new clothes or packaged goods, even making her own cleaning supplies.

Veteran teacher Gerald Conti's resignation letter: 27 years at Westhill High, and a farewell to a profession he says ‘no longer exists’.

Spielberg's Minority Report asks whether crime can be stopped before it's committed. A Retro Reel column on fate, free will, and the future of policing.

Romance author Sonali Dev shares seven rules for keeping the love alive when you're losing your mind — from holding hands to yelling it out.

A Naperville book club takes on Aravind Adiga's Booker-winning 'The White Tiger' — and splits three ways over its brutal portrait of class and caste.

Facebook has killed the mystery of school reunions — so why do people still go? On nostalgia, comparison anxiety, and the ones worth attending.

In August 2012, an IIM-Ahmedabad professor's decision to renounce the material world made headlines — a reminder of what the rat race costs the soul.

Thousands of Indian parents follow their children to America — and find themselves in a strange limbo: comfortable homes, loving families, and days that

The July 2012 India blackout was the largest in history — 600+ million people across 22 states, as the northern, eastern and northeastern grids collapsed.

In 2012 Kabul, Shakila Naderi ran a driving school for women — a small, pointed act of normalization in a city where public space was still deeply gendered.

A jogger collapsed in a London park in 2012 and Dustin Hoffman helped save him. What the story really says about bystanders, CPR, and acting in an emergency.

In 2012 the Army was reported to be ending its colonial-era sahayak 'buddy' system. The promised end never fully came. What happened — and why the reform

Dr. Ken Murray’s viral 2011 essay observed that doctors facing death often choose comfort care over aggressive treatment.

A reader review of Khorshed Bhavnagri The Laws of the Spirit World, the automatic-writing book born of the tragic 1980 loss of her sons Vispi and Ratoo.

Hit a fitness plateau? Progressive overload, cross-training, and real recovery — not more of the same — are what restart progress and redefine exercise.

An honest essay on stepping back from work to raise kids: the joy, the lost identity, the judgment from both sides — and why every mother is a working mother.

A reader's review of Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's Palace of Illusions: the Mahabharata retold through Draupadi's fierce, questioning voice.

A conversation with Rajeev, founder of Naperville's PR3 Systems, on whether honesty and integrity still have a place in the cut-throat corporate world.

Quitting smoking doesn't just prevent disease — research shows ex-smokers' mood, anxiety, and wellbeing eventually match people who never smoked.

Growing up in India, she was told fair skin was everything. Moving to America taught her otherwise. A personal essay on colorism — and unlearning it.