Brij Khandelwal

Brij Khandelwal is an Agra-based senior journalist.

When Johannes Gutenberg invented the movable-type printing press in 1455, he could hardly have imagined a future where publishing a book would become so simple that almost every writer could become their own publisher.

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Recently, Gujarat created history when a living donor's heart was transported in time through a Green Corridor using the Vande Bharat Express...

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Agra's air remains toxic for most of the year. Every day, thousands of trucks, buses and other heavy vehicles travelling from north to south and east to west add to the city's pollution burden.

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It sounds like a cruel joke. Yet that is the grim reality facing Agra. August has arrived with rumbling clouds and the scent of rain-soaked earth. Instead, the sky has worn a blank face. Farmers scan the horizon with anxious eyes, housewives count every bucket, and tube wells groan a little louder each day.

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It is eight on a warm summer morning. At a dusty road junction in a village of Govardhan tehsil in Mathura district, a group of boys and girls waits for the school bus. Their uniforms are spotless. Their shoes shine. Colourful school bags hang from their shoulders.

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On summer evenings, the banks of the Yamuna River look very attractive. Cool breeze, families enjoying themselves, children's laughter, and the calm flow of the river; everything feels peaceful.

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