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A new book follows the figure of the yogini from ancient stone carvings to foreign museums
Magic is lay intransigence in the face of priestcraft. A little tradition of ghosts an…
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Review: In ‘Main Vaapas Aaunga’, to love is to remember and to remember is to love
Imtiaz Ali’s latest wistful romance reunites him with his Amar Singh Chamkila lead ac…
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India must realise that resilience isn’t an economic strategy – it needs a clear economic philosophy
Every economy needs optimism. Investors respond to confidence, consumers spend when th…
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A tourist rush is swamping Himachal Pradesh – and the environmental cost is heavy
On May 24, Nitesh Thakur left Shimla in his car around noon, hoping to reach his villa…
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Israel and India show how democracies drift towards digital authoritarianism
“Digital authoritarianism” refers to governments using technology for surveillance and…
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A new book looks at how movements for civil liberties have developed in India
“Coming of age in the 1960s and the 1970s, we were witness from a distance to the Naxa…
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Why the Trinamool Congress is collapsing like a house of cards
“The more you torture us in Bengal, the more problems you will face in Delhi,” former …
