Nobel-winning quantum physicist Max Born once taught at IISc. His 6 months in India were bittersweet
Once mentor to Oppenheimer, Born, who fled Nazi Germany, came to India on CV Raman’s invitation. The bungalow he lived in when he taught at IISc now houses the university’s registrar. Read this report by Sandhya Ramesh.
Releasing manifesto for Jharkhand, Amit Shah said BJP will deliberate on separate Sarna code for tribals in the census if voted to power. But RSS feels JMM-backed demand is ‘bogus’, reports Sanya Dhingra.
6 regions, 36 districts & 288 seats: How to read Maharashtra’s electoral map
ThePrint’s Purva Chitnis explains Maharashtra’s 6 regions and dominant issues in play in each, from polarisation and big-ticket infra to ‘Maratha vs OBC’ and demands of onion farmers and sugar belt.
3 national capitals that will be the unhappiest about Trump’s victory & 3 that will be happiest
In the capitals that will now be the unhappiest, a Kamala Harris victory was presumed, and a lot of actions and calculations were predicated upon that, writes Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta.
Violent Canadians beat up Indians in Brampton. India has a right to speak up
As the great power in the region, it is our duty to offer shelter to people of Indian origin when they are an oppressed minority in the countries where they live, writes Vir Sanghvi in ‘Sharp Edge’.
Pakistan’s Parliament just signed its suicide note. New law gives army chief even more power
This added power for COAS Asim Munir isn’t very good for the ruling PML-N coalition. A more confident army chief could easily abandon the government and enter negotiations with Imran Khan, writes Ayesha Siddiqa.