
My parents had decided to enrol me in Sophia’s boarding school so as to not upset my education.

Named somewhat ambitiously, Merta City then had a population of less than 30,000 and almost no decent schools. She hoped that staying with his family and seeing his children daily would motivate Dad to drink less and be more focused on his job. Merta City is a hamlet in Nagaur, which has remained one of the most underdeveloped (officially called industrially backward) districts of Rajasthan. So that is where she went with a new baby, a toddler and a seven-year-old in tow. He was now posted in Merta City, a bleak town in western Rajasthan. In 1992, with little jewellery left to sell, Mum decided the only way to keep Dad from drinking was to keep an eye on him at all times. Watch: Shilpa Shetty takes the viral mobility challenge, asks followers to try the fitness test.Hockey: Udita Duhan puts aside regret to embark on flourishing hockey career.Fiction: Indenture as seen by a woman in a British-owned sugarcane plantation in 19th-century India.Why the return of the Rohingya to Myanmar to crucial.A new book examines the many forms of discrimination that women scientists face in Indian labs.‘Sirf Ek Banda Kaafi Hai’ trailer: Manoj Bajpayee plays a lawyer who prosecutes a godman.Ramachandra Guha: How BJP is distorting Indian history to serve its majoritarian agenda.IPL 2023: Rohit Sharma’s poor run of form sees him set record for most ducks in IPL.Nine years after Muzaffarnagar riots, the only woman who pursued rape charges still awaits justice.On Rabindranath Tagore’s 162nd birth anniversary, read five newly translated poems from ‘Gitanjali’.IPL 2023: Virat Kohli becomes first batter to cross 7,000 runs in tournament – ‘Full of gratitude’.

My Kerala Story: Finding liberation in Malabar.
