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Business News > Mint Authors > Omkar Khandekar

Omkar Khandekar

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ARTICLES BY OMKAR KHANDEKAR

Brothers Madhav and Shrikrishna Chitale (Illustration by Priya Kuriyan)

The Chitale Brothers: A savoury history

8 min read . 04 Jun 2021

Voters, with scant regard to social distancing norms, queue up in the second phase of Panchayat elections in Dujana village, Noida, on April 19. (Sunil Ghosh / Hindustan Times)

How the panchayat polls ‘killed’ over 700 teachers in UP

10 min read . 02 May 2021

A health worker checks her phone as a vendor arrives to sell rat poison in Dharavi, one of Asia's largest slums, in Mumbai, in March, 2021. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

How India’s slums are faring against the second covid19 wave

8 min read . 29 Apr 2021

Rashid Khan of Sunrisers Hyderabad celebrates the wicket of Shikhar Dhawan of Delhi Capitals at M. A. Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai on Sunday. (ANI Photo/IPL Twitter)

How local is your IPL team?

5 min read . 28 Apr 2021

Myanmar refugees at an undisclosed location in Mizoram flash the three-finger salute, a symbol of resistance popular in Myanmar inspired by the Hunger Games trilogy. Over 3000 people, including police and firemen, have crossed over to Mizoram after Myanmar's military staged a coup against the government in February. (Rupak De Chowdhuri / Reuters)

The Myanmar policemen who didn't want to shoot their own people

6 min read . 20 Apr 2021

Activist Kobad Ghandy comes out the district court in Patiala on May 27, 2016 (HT PRINT)

Kobad Ghandy: I cracked very often but I managed to get out

7 min read . 02 Apr 2021

Myanmar nationals, including the police and firemen who recently fled to India, flash the three-finger salute at an undisclosed location in Mizoram on March 15 (Rupak De Chowdhuri | Reuters)

Why Mizoram is giving shelter to refugees fleeing Myanmar

5 min read . 31 Mar 2021

Aam Aadmi Party, led by Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, wants to install tall tricolors across Delhi, such that one is visible every 2km (ANI Photo)

Is AAP’s Rs 45 crore 'patriotic' gesture worth it?

5 min read . 25 Mar 2021

A file image of recruiters from companies at IIM, Ahmedabad

Why the placement cell is central to a B-school student’s career

12 min read . 22 Mar 2021

A probe committee by the Bihar governor suspended 12 teachers and a professor at a college for dancing to 'Teri Aakhya Ka Yo Kajal', a dance-number by Haryana’s pop sensation Sapna Chaudhary, at a college function. (Himanshu Babbar Photography | facebook.com)

How a Sapna Chaudhary dance number paralysed a Bihar college

10 min read . 18 Mar 2021

A therapist at a spa in Udaipur performs a treatment on a guest. (Leisa Tyler/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Sex dens or wellness centres? Indian spas struggle for legitimacy

5 min read . 09 Mar 2021

A schoolboy in an English class in Rajasthan (iStock)

How Google is trying to standardize Indian-English

5 min read . 17 Feb 2021

The crowd at Madison Square Garden, New York, in September 2014, waiting for Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (Photo: Getty Images)

Indian Americans: liberal in the US, conservative in India

4 min read . 16 Feb 2021

Kamalabai Rathod at her farm in Borkhedi in Marathwada region of Maharashtra, harvesting her fresh crop of tur dal (Courtesy: EarthBasics.co.in)

These farmers tell you exactly how your food was grown

4 min read . 10 Feb 2021

An infant girl from Andhra Pradesh hugs her mother (Tim Gainey / Alamy Stock Photo)

SY Quraishi debunks the myth of India’s rising Muslim population

6 min read . 07 Feb 2021

A screengrab from the Tamil blockbuster 'Master', which released on Amazon Prime on 29 January

Censor board thinks actor Vijay criticizing the government is ‘defamation’

3 min read . 03 Feb 2021

A placard seen in Delhi during a protest against the 2012 Nirbhaya gang rape in Delhi. (Ramesh Lalwani, licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 )

Uttar Pradesh courts gave the most number of death sentences last year

2 min read . 21 Jan 2021

Forest guards carrying wooden sticks patrol the Gir National Park and Wildlife Sanctuary in Sasan, Gujarat, in 2014. (Anindito Mukherjee | REUTERS)

Should all forest protection personnel in India be armed?

5 min read . 20 Jan 2021

Volunteer arranges blankets at Kisan mall set up by Khalsa Aid during farmer's protest against the farm's laws at Tikri border, in New Delhi on Tuesday. (ANI Photo)

NIA changes tack after Khalsa Aid gets nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

2 min read . 19 Jan 2021

Ustad Ghulam Mustafa Khan (1931-2021) was a Indian classical musician belonging to the Rampur-Sahaswan Gharana (Wikimedia Commons)

Hansal Mehta makes us an Ustad Ghulam Mustafa Khan playlist to remember him by

1 min read . 18 Jan 2021