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A new book shows how the RSS consolidated its hold over politics in Rajasthan
In the final years of his life, Jai Bahadur Singh Shekhawat would venture onto the la…
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Why SC denied bail to Umar Khalid, Sharjeel Imam but awarded it to five other anti-CAA activists
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Start the week with a film: ‘In ‘Sorry, Baby’, talking about rape and survival
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‘As helpless as a common man’: Why Jammu and Kashmir’s MLAs say they are powerless in the new regime
On December 13, the district administration in Jammu and Kashmir’s Budgam sent bulld…
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‘Bhupen Khakhar’: The genius of the iconic Sunday painter is reimagined in this Gujarati biography
Dilip Chitre, the acclaimed Indian poet, critic, and translator, had once made a prof…
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‘The doorbell is not the problem’: What Zomato CEO Goyal could learn from BR Ambedkar
As 2025 came to an end, delivery workers across India called for strikes on December…
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Delhi: GRAP 3 measures revoked as air quality improves
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January 3,1946: INA defendants walk free after trial that gripped India
On January 3,1946, a drama unfolded in the Red Fort in Delhi. It meant freedom for th…
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A new book examines how past governments handled the demand for a Ram Janmabhoomi temple
सबहि नचावै राम गुसाईं Lord Ram makes everyone dance to His will. When Vishwanath …
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How young women in a Jharkhand village became experts in solar technology
During the Covid-19 pandemic, the village of Dantoo, in Jharkhand’s Kasara block, fac…
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Food coma: Mussels and mutton to rabbit and fishball – my year in stews
While I do occasionally enjoy cooking, I do not like labouring in the kitchen for too…
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Food coma: Three ways to love a dal
How do I love masoor dal? Let me count the ways. First, as the taste of childhood. P…
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Food coma: Christmas feasts are a reward for surviving the year
The remains of Christmas cake and miscellaneous crumbs bring cheer on New Year’s Day …
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Harsh Mander: The Constitution’s emancipatory promises on caste remain elusive
For a series of 11 short treatises by leading scholars on the ideas of free India’s C…
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What shopping for wigs during her chemotherapy taught Pallavi Aiyar about the global hair trade
On my way out of the oncologist’s office on the day I was informed that I needed chem…
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Backstory: Driving to ‘where no cars can go’ in the Darjeeling mountains
It was late May and I was in Darjeeling district of West Bengal interviewing tea esta…
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Khaleda Zia, former Bangladesh prime minister and BNP chief, dies at 80
Khaleda Zia , Bangladesh’s first woman prime minister, died on Tuesday after a prolon…
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Backstory: When an old woman called me from Bangladesh
On a humid June day, my colleague and I were in the middle of an interview in Assam’s…
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Start the week with a film: Why ‘Sinners’ has topped so many year-ender lists
Two films dominate the year-ender lists for Hollywood for 2025, and they are likely t…
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Backstory: Why hanging out with this Brahmin lawyer in Gwalior spooked me
Cooped up at the back of Anil Mishra’s SUV, driving through the narrow lanes of Gwali…
