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Cordelia Jenkins

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ARTICLES BY CORDELIA JENKINS

A report by the Indian strategic philanthropic foundation Dasra says adolescent girls in India are a large invisible population, amounting to 113 million, or 20% of the world’s adolescent girls. Photo: Sharp Image

A helping hand for adolescent girls

1 min read . 23 Feb 2014

Dilip Khalsa with his mother and niece. The family claims it is being pressurized by the Indian government to claim the body of Khalsa’s brother Jitendra who died in Qatar. Photo: S Kumar/Mint

Qatar migrant worker death rate rings alarm bells worldwide

9 min read . 21 Feb 2014

Mars-hopeful from India Vinod Kotiya will have to leave his daughter Jeannie and wife Priyanka behind in case he is among the lucky four chosen from among the 200,000 applicants. Kotiya’s selection email has asked him to start publicising the mission using social media to scale up the crowd funding. Photo: Ramesh Pathania/Mint

India’s Vinod Kotiya makes the top 1,058 for Mars One mission

1 min read . 12 Feb 2014

W.H. Auden (left) and Emily Dickinson are two of the many poets who either made political statements about homosexuality or intimate declarations of love through their poetry. Photographs: Wikimedia Commons

The Love Issue | Boundless love

5 min read . 08 Feb 2014

Using data collectors armed with smartphones all over the country, capturing real-time instances of price rises in local markets, Premise had been observing the upward trend since February, and early on had spotted that something was awry.

Price rise: The original Premise on data

11 min read . 24 Jan 2014

A file photo of Mary Beard posing with her Most Excellent Order of the British Empire medal on 28 June, 2013. Photo: John Stillwell/AFP

BETWEEN THE LINES | In defence of the classics

5 min read . 21 Jan 2014

A file photo of Rana Dasgupta. Photo: John Macdougall/AFP

BETWEEN THE LINES | Traumatised City

5 min read . 21 Jan 2014

Meghnad Desai says Kejriwal represents someone who has seen that a change is overdue. Photo: Mint

BETWEEN THE LINES: Meghnad Desai says India has come of age politically

2 min read . 20 Jan 2014

(From left) Rana Mitter, Oscar Guardiola-Rivera, Sunil Khilnani, Xiaolu Guo, Dipankar Gupta and Lord Meghnad Desai during a panel discussion at Jaipur Literature Festival on Saturday. Photo: PTI

BETWEEN THE LINES: Who should rule the world

2 min read . 20 Jan 2014

‘Chronicle of a Corpse Bearer’ derives from a true story of the son of a Parsi priest who falls in love with the daughter of a corpse bearer, a community segregated and shunned by society.

Cyrus Mistry wins the 2014 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature

3 min read . 19 Jan 2014

Constantly learning new things is exhausting and exhilarating. Photo: Priyanka Parashar/Mint

New Year Ideas | Work in another country

4 min read . 04 Jan 2014

We will see physical print slowly going away, says Varian. Photo: Pradeep Gaur/ Mint

Personal digital assistance to be next big battle: Google’s Varian

7 min read . 17 Dec 2013

Arvind Kejriwal (centre) with AAP volunteers and supporters at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi on 11 December. Photo: Pradeep Gaur/Mint

How AAP and Arvind Kejriwal shook up Delhi

18 min read . 16 Dec 2013

Across the four states where votes were counted on Sunday, Chhattisgarh saw a high of 77.27% of the total female electorate turning out to vote, Madhya Pradesh recorded 70.11%, Rajasthan 75.33% and Delhi trailed at 64.68%, which was still significantly higher than the 56.62% recorded in 2008. Photo: Pradeep Gaur/Mint

Assembly elections: Steady rise in female voters

4 min read . 08 Dec 2013

Tarun Tejpal shows his identity card to a security guard as he enters the New Delhi airport on Friday while on his way to Goa. Photo: AFP

Tarun Tejpal | The Man in the Mirror

18 min read . 02 Dec 2013

Nikesh Arora says that life is a combination of capability, luck and hard work, if one gets all three then he’s able to break through various ceilings. Photo: Priyanka Parashar/Mint

Google’s Nikesh Arora: Man with a plan

18 min read . 27 Nov 2013

A file photo of CBI director Ranjit Sinha. Photo: Hindustan Times

CBI director Ranjit Sinha used the wrong phrase to make the right point

1 min read . 13 Nov 2013

Prince Charles and his wife Camilla stand in front of the Akshardham Temple in New Delhi on 8 November. Photo: Saurabh Das/AP

Should we care about the British royals’ visit to India?

6 min read . 11 Nov 2013

Maheshwer Peri admits he has been drawn into a costly and lengthy battle, but has the indignation of someone who is convinced he is right. Photo: India Today/Getty Images

Maheshwer Peri’s long way around

16 min read . 05 Nov 2013

Deepa Kumar, director of GrassRoutes, in Mumbai. Photo: Abhijit Bhatlekar/Mint

‘The government won’t, so I will’

8 min read . 02 Nov 2013