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Haryana farmers’ AI Jugalbandi, Bengaluru’s Sarvam—West is keenly watching India’s progress

Officials from the US, Papua New Guinea, and Quad countries attended the Global Technology Summit in Bengaluru, where researchers discussed how AI can promote inclusive growth and improve governance.

Pakistani Hindu girls sing about their dream at IIT Delhi. They want home, govt jobs

The Sewa Nyaya Utthan Foundation brought three Pakistani Hindu refugee girls from Jodhpur to sing at IIT Delhi’s Rendezvous festival.

Sindhis have been missing in India’s Partition story. Now, they finally get an exhibition

The Partition Museum in Delhi now pays tribute to the unacknowledged pain of Sindhis. It blends oral histories, archival material, memory artifacts, and contemporary art from a scattered culture.

Mir Taqi Mir wasn’t a poet of longing like Ghalib. He lived in the resistance space

Translator Ranjit Hoskote shared translations of Mir’s verses on social media, as part of ‘Project Mir’, which later took the shape of his recent book, ‘The Homeland’s an Ocean’.

Gandhi ‘bamboozled’ Ambedkar into signing the Poona Pact—and later regretted it

‘Thank you, Gandhi’ looks at epochal moments of modern India and how they were framed by government response and a hostile political ecosystem.

The humble picture postcard acted as a powerful colonial propaganda tool for the British

Collector Ratnesh Mathur has put up 9,000 postcards at DAG in Delhi that showed how the humble pictures became foot soldiers of the British Empire.

Hindu sanskriti is a form of civilisation. We ignore this period of history—Pavan K Varma

The launch of Pavan K Varma’s new book, ‘The Great Hindu Civilisation’, saw a heated debate involving MP Abhishek Manu Singhvi, author and scientist Anand Ranganathan, and ex-MP Mahesh Jethmalani.

‘Waiting For Naseer’ is about finding fame on stage. Naseeruddin Shah is just a stand-in

The play is about two actors waiting to meet their inspiration—Naseeruddin Shah. The wait is an artifice to reflect on the state of theatre, artists’ insecurities, hypocrisies & fame.

Made in haste, built at wrong place, no footfall—India’s site museums are a sad story

Retired archaeologist Rajeev Dwivedi said at National Museum that most of the site museums have been built at the site of monuments. And that isn’t the right way to build museums.

Kolkata puja pandal bringing Durga & Bonbibi together. A sense of Sundarbans in the city

At the pandal, one would get to know the stories of faceless delta dwellers like Krishnapada Mandal and Mohammad Jolil Borkondas.

On Camera

Bihar mimics 19th-century American South. Citizenship is now weaponised to exclude voters

Disenfranchisement by institutional fiat is profoundly undemocratic. The effect of the ECI's new documentary process in Bihar will tilt the scales in favour of the BJP.

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

Not just AK-203, India & Russia to jointly manufacture AK-19 and PPK-20 for domestic use and export 

India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.

Strategic partner one day, tactical nightmare the next: India’s learning Trumplomacy the hard way

Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.