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Nisha Susan

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ARTICLES BY NISHA SUSAN

The gap between India’s rich and poor is now wider than it was under British colonial rule. (iStockphoto)

When we mock the working class, the joke is on us

5 min read . 27 Apr 2025

Exam outcomes don’t necessarily correspond to hours of jaws-clenched labour. ( istockphoto)

It’s never too late to learn lessons about exams

4 min read . 30 Mar 2025

Do you know what a wallaroo is? (iStockphoto)

Sometimes it’s nice to not know things

4 min read . 22 Feb 2025

Reading poetry is like having a casual engagement with precise language. (Istockphoto)

The benefits of reading poetry in a world of muddled meanings

4 min read . 25 Jan 2025

Let us unwrap our shiny new material pleasures and enjoy them thoroughly. (iStockphoto)

Perfect love may not exist but perfect gifts do

4 min read . 28 Dec 2024

Living in your hometown with friends and family closeby can make one smug. In a new city, you will need to build a community. (iStockphoto)

If there is no village to raise a kid, ask for help

5 min read . 30 Nov 2024

Among all adulterated substances, the most panic-inducing are counterfeited drugs. (iStockphoto)

‘Laddus’ to drugs, adulteration is a national crisis

4 min read . 28 Sep 2024

Mahila Congress activists protesting in Thiruvananthapuram (PTI)

Skip bombast, build solidarities

5 min read . 30 Aug 2024

Manorama Khedkar, mother of IAS trainee Puja Khedkar, in Pune. (PTI)

Why does the accusing finger always turn towards the oppressed?

5 min read . 28 Jul 2024

Samajwadi Party workers protesting the NEET fiasco in Lucknow (HT)

The runaway train of crime in India

5 min read . 29 Jun 2024

As hard as it is to keep your child alive, it's hard for mothers to stay alive too. (iStockphoto)

When shame and judgement follow motherhood

5 min read . 25 May 2024

There is a tendency to analyse public relationships as pieces of pop culture. (iStockphoto)

The relentless energy of amateur online sleuths

4 min read . 29 Mar 2024

South Korea has one of the lowest birth rates in the world. (iStockphoto)

K-drama is far from the real lives of Korean women

5 min read . 01 Mar 2024

Advice columns have drama, and conflict. (iStockphoto)

Where everyone gets to be an agony aunt

5 min read . 22 Dec 2023

A still from the TV series ‘Frozen Planet’ (2011), narrated by David Attenborough and actor Alec Baldwin.

Hanging out with the Attenbros

6 min read . 24 Nov 2023

Accessing any kind of cash subsidy in India is not easy. (iStockphoto)

Why not try no strings attached cash transfers?

4 min read . 27 Oct 2023

When Gwyneth Paltrow used the phrase ‘conscious uncoupling’ for her break-up with Chris Martin, it caused much mirth. (Getty Images)

Political uncoupling in the season of break-ups

4 min read . 29 Sep 2023

Having to constantly defend meat-eating sidelines the possibility of meat-eating being a social tradition of your caste and community. (iStockphoto)

Is it raining meatballs in Mandi?

4 min read . 15 Sep 2023

Our school system is one that oppresses and discriminates. (iStockphoto)

Schools offer degrees of humiliation as education

5 min read . 01 Sep 2023

Recent unprecedented orca behaviour has triggered a variety of theories and responses from humans (iStockphoto)

Under the sea, there are all kinds of stories

4 min read . 18 Aug 2023