After puja in Gyanvapi, Banaras, the city ‘older than history’, is quietly changing
The Gyanvapi mosque committee says they have to face ‘daily harassment’. Local admin maintains ‘approval for anything has to be sought from a high-level committee headed by an ADG-level officer’, reports Sanya Dhingra.
In an article published in Economic & Political Weekly, he said data from the ‘Hindu period’ of 1-1000 AD shows per capita GDP & population growth were both stagnant, no better than the world’s. Read Yuthika Bhargava’s report.
Could Vadnagar rewrite history? 3,000-yr-old Gujarat town holds clues to India’s ‘dark age’
India’s oldest living town Vadnagar survived climate shifts, invasions, and falls of empires. Solving the mystery of its first settlers could debunk India’s ‘dark age’ theory. Monami Gogoi reports.
Three-gen corporate rule in Indian politics—How dynasts conform & how they can break free
Jayant Chaudhary is not the first. In the past decade, the BJP has attempted hostile takeovers of dynast-ruled parties by either appropriating their vote bank or minority shareholders, writes D.K. Singh.
South India is rightly agitated by unfair allocation. Limiting Centre’s power is the answer
South India’s situation is unlike any in large federal unions across the world. US, UK, China, Germany, and Spain correct their fiscal imbalances through tax policy. India is making it worse, writes Nilakantan RS.
Manual on hills—driving through Sikkim is not for the faint-hearted, if not for Honda cars
The Honda Car India’s ‘Drive to Discover’ event in Sikkim that also covered Darjeeling became a ‘drive to remember’. Here’s how, writes Kushan Mitra.