In early years, India chose UK, given the colonial military structures it inherited. Later, Soviets stepped in with incentives when IAF had to compete with Pakistan’s US fighters, reports Suchet Vir Singh
Tarun Tahiliani, Anamika Khanna, Abhinav Mishra, and Gaurav Gupta are selling big in Pakistan via Dubai. But with couture that shows less skin before the qazi, report Sabah Gurmat and Mythili Vijay Kumar Thallam
What is acknowledged as ‘Indian’ now was developed across millennia by people who we don’t consider Indian today, reports Monami Gogoi
As the country embraces the new Rahul Gandhi after the Bharat Jodo Yatra, the Congress leader cannot but embrace the challenge of practising politics in these dark times, writes Yogendra Yadav
The cutting-edge elements of the IAF are fraying. The operational strategy has to be anchored in what is going to be available; calling it aerospace is aspirational for now, writes Lt General Prakash Menon
Indian assistance to Turkey and Syria following earthquakes is part of the country’s tradition of providing humanitarian assistance without expecting returns or following a quid-pro-quo policy, writes Seshadri Chari
Assam policeman’s wireless message before Nellie massacre was ignored. How we came to know of its existence and then found it is the story we are telling now, writes Shekhar Gupta