73 years. At least 5,401 songs. In other words, Lata Mangeshkar has been at it for a long time.
Lata Mangeshkar was 13 years old when she debuted as a Hindi playback singer. The year was 1942. Since then she has sung more than 5,400 Hindi film songs for over 200 heroines. The result is a staggering repertoire, which you can now explore.
While the Uri attack was nearly unprecedented in its lethality, in other ways, it was typical of recent militancy in Kashmir.
Delhi′s Ghazipur landfill site is a ticking garbage bomb. But for the children in the neighbourhood, it is a mine of interesting finds. Photojournalist Ravi Choudhary showcases their search for clothes, trinkets, broken toys and junk jewellery on a mountain of waste.
Almost an annual ritual, flood waters of Brahmaputra ravaged Assam again. The increasingly frequent and intense floods force thousands to migrate from the river, changing human settlement patterns. In some places, displacement has even led to conflict.
MS Subbulakshmi was more than a gifted classical singer. She was a rockstar in her own right.
Since 1954, the Indian government has been conferring its highest honors — from the venerable Padma Shri to the exclusive Bharat Ratna — on bureaucrats, artists, scientists, engineers, sporting heroes, and political icons. Taken together, the 4,329 awardees paint a picture of India’s recent history and tell a story about the country’s values and priorities.
One of India’s most polluted waterways, comes alive every July-August during monsoon and the surging water revives its marine life. Lensman Burhaan Kinu captures the lives of the river’s annual visitors — the fishermen
For 29 years, a box full of Kodachrome slidesheets from an old assignment lay unopened in photojournalist, Pablo Bartholomew’s apartment. By the time he remembered them, they had been disfigured by time and termites. Re-examining the slidesheets, he looked at the decay he held in his hands, and put his energy to curate it as a work that had survived the kiss of death.
As Nicholas Dawes says goodbye to India, he hears echoes of a long family history that resonate from Cape Town to Kashmir
Three track and field athletes set world records in Rio. But there is another record that will take decades for them to break.
The Ganga is home to India’s only dolphin reserve. But dams and dredging are endangering the reclusive, long-snouted species.
Indian athletes have made it to several Olympic finals but they have always fallen short of a spot on the podium. So when was the last time India’s national records in running, swimming, jumping or throwing would have won the country a gold at the Olympics?
In Delhi’s shelter number 177, homeless women come from as far as four-hundred kilometers away – to beg and provide for their families. They are without a roof on their head but are hopeful of a brighter tomorrow.
Delhi has shelter homes for men, women, children, disabled, drug-addicts but not one for the third gender.
We plotted each country’s national records for the 100-metre dash. Pick the countries and find out who wins the race.
In part 3 of our series on Delhi’s homeless, we look at the drug abuse and HIV infection.
No roof over their head, Delhi’s homeless battle rape, stigma and drugs. Studies say Delhi’s homeless anywhere between 52,000 and 2,46,000.
India’s athletic talent is not evenly distributed. Some regions produce many athletes; others produce none. Some states nurture top wrestlers; some, lightning fast sprinters.
In Kashmir, more than 180 people are being treated for severe eye injuries because of pellets. Police claim that it is a “non lethal weapon”.
As Raghuram Rajan prepares to step down as governor of the Reserve Bank of India in September, speculation has swirled around who will be chosen to replace him as the leader of the country’s central bank.
Despite perceptions to the contrary, the frequency of terror attacks in France has not increased in recent years, according to data from the Global Terrorism Database, a project by the University of Maryland that tracks terrorist attacks since 1970.
The mass shooting in Orlando shows that lax gun laws can be fatal. In India, where mass shootings are rare, gun ownership laws are much stricter than in the United Sates.
An investigation into capital punishment in India
In north Delhi’s Burari area, a recycling plant is the go-to destination for construction and demolition waste from all over the capital city. Every day, 5000 tons of waste is recycled here. Documentary photographer Siddharth captures the men and machines at work in this plant.
Kashmiri students were attacked in Jodhpur, allegedly as a backlash against the recent unrest at Srinagar’s NIT. But this was not the first such incident. Kashmiri students studying in colleges outside the valley have been attacked in at least 30 different instances since February 2013.
Interactive map showing the winners of every state assembly constituency, year after year.
At 81-years-old, Annamma Varghese didn’t die comfortably, but she had come to long for the end.
Communal tension fuelled by beef politics has cropped up in Assam where land and ethnicity were, historically, the cause of most clashes.
As incomes from agriculture and cattle breeding continue to diminish thanks to repeated failed monsoons, more people from Madesh, Maharashtra are migrating to distant towns or sugar factories in Satara, Sangli and Kolhapur for alternative work, leaving their children behind
Around 5 am on the morning of June 15, 2004, an investigative unit in Ahmedabad — the city’s Detection of Crime Branch — received a call. Police officers from the Crime Branch had killed four suspected terrorists close to a water treatment plant on the outskirts of of the Gujarat capital. The four — three men and a woman — were believed to be linked to Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), a Pakistani terror group.
Hindustan Times launches its photo blog Ground Glass with the work of five passionate women photo journalists -- Chinky Shukla, Ruhani Kaur, Saumya Khandelwal, Mansi Thapliyal and Anushree Fadnavis. Away from the spotlight, they wield their cameras to tell stories which inspire and move us.
Sanjay Dutt was first arrested in 1993 in connection to the Mumbai blasts. Since then, he has been in and our of jail. He has been arrested and, even, sentenced thrice. This is a timeline of Dutt’s life.
The communities around Tosa Maidan paid a deadly price because the Indian Army chose to practice artillery drills there. Now, another meadow in Kashmir could face a similar fate.
What if you could be the Finance Minister for a day? You get to take charge of India’s budget. Your goal is to cut the fiscal deficit without compromising essential government services and initiatives
As India’s Supreme Court prepares to revisit India’s controversial ban on gay sex, find out how the history of anti-sodomy laws dovetails with the history of colonialism. More than half of the 76 countries that still criminalize gay sex are former European colonies, particularly British.
Female genital mutilation is being practiced not just in Africa but in the heart of Mumbai. HT speaks to several ‘victims’ who are becoming the face of a brave fight back
Rhinos in the Kaziranga National Park have always been the target of poachers, who sell their horns for US $ 300,000 per kilogram, one of the most expensive contraband items in the world. But efforts to conserve Kaziranga’s rhinos have left a trail of dead bodies of poor villagers, who are labelled as poachers and shot dead in ‘encounters’.
HIV prevalence in India is declining, but some states — where new infections are on the rise — are bucking that trend. A report from the National AIDS Control Organisation points to discouraging trends in Tripura, Assam, Sikkim and, to a lesser extent, in Arunachal Pradesh, Delhi, Gujarat, Haryana, Jharkhand, Punjab, Rajasthan, and Uttarakhand.
The backstory of Rohith Vemula’s life starts in the town of Guntur in the summer of 1971, 18 years before he was born. That was the year Anjani Devi – Rohith’s adoptive “grandmother” – triggered the events that the scholar would later describe cryptically as the “fatal accident of my birth” in his suicide note.
In the last five years, more than a dozen armed groups have become active in the forests of Jharkand, aided by security agencies who are pitting them against Maoists. In the gang wars that follow, civilians have become collateral damage.
A newspaper run and edited by street children, is quietly transforming their lives.
After the demoliton of an illegal settlement along railway tracks in Delhi, HT talks to angry residents who lost their homes.
A new breed of militants is rising in Kashmir – young, educated, tech-savvy. HT travelled to the valley to find out what is fuelling these young men to take up arms against the state.
The recent ban on foreign couples seeking surrogacy in the country has led to a big debate on the lives of the women involved. HT visits surrogate mothers in Anand, Gujarat to capture the lives and experiences of those who are compelled to rent their wombs.
At the end of every James Bond film we are promised one thing: James Bond will return. And return he has with his 24th adventure Spectre. Daniel Craig reteams with his Skyfall director Sam Mendes for another go-around, and this time it’s bigger, louder, more action-packed and at the same time more intimate (or so we’re told).
Hindustan Times revisits Shahjahanabad, the beating heart of the Capital that has fallen upon hard times in the new age. Shahjahanabad, walled city, Purani Dilli. The heart of the capital is no longer the vibrant, charming Shahar that brought together the best of tradition and modernity. Today’s Old Delhi is living proof of the indifference of subsequent administrations and the frustration of its people. It’s time to right that wrong, time for all of Delhi to stand up for Dilli-6.
In September, HT’s defence correspondent RAHUL SINGH and photo editor GURINDER OSAN travelled to the tough terrains of the Line of Control, the de facto border between India and Pakistan. In Frontier Diaries, we bring you their dispatches from what is one of the most volatile borders in the country
Turning out in national colours at the Junior World Wrestling Championships in Brazil this August would have been one when the mind rewound to the trauma of being married off at 13 to a mentally challenged man, 30 years her senior, in Bhiwani.
The findings of the annual Hindustan Times-MaRS Youth Survey – in its fifth year now – which polled more than 5,000 youngsters in the 18-25 age group across 15 state capitals and major Indian cities.
