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Imran Khan was confident he would get rightful place in Pak and Nawaz Sharif would go

In this excerpt from Reham Khan's autobiography, she writes on how Imran Khan was '95%' sure that Nawaz Sharif would have to step down for rigging elections.

The king who sat on Diamond Throne barefoot, drank three-quarter pint of sesame oil daily

Manu S. Pillai’s Rebel Sultans: The Deccan From Khilji to Shivaji traces the history of Deccan India from 13th to 18th century.

When Sanjay Dutt popped LSD and tried to ‘arrange’ his father’s face

This excerpt from 'Sanjay Dutt: The crazy untold story of Bollywood's bad boy' speaks about what happened after the actor popped a pill of LSD. 

I don’t interfere in my girlfriend’s life, except for her clothes: Sanjay Dutt had said

Sanjay Dutt's life was a mix of LSD and an affair with Tina during the shoot of his first movie Rocky. Read this excerpt from Yaseer Usman's book Sanjay Dutt: The Crazy Untold Story of Bollywood’s Bad Boy.

Tamil poet Subramania Bharati’s lesser-known love affair with Rabindranath Tagore’s work

A.R. Venkatachalapathy's book Who Owns That Song? The Battle for Subramania Bharati's Copyright traces the journey of Bharati, the first poet whose works were nationalised. 

Modi believed Vajpayee’s wooing of Muslims in 2004 was a fruitless exercise

Saba Naqvi's book Shades of Saffron: From Vajpayee To Modi traces the rise and fall of the BJP party and the differences between the two leaders.

Neither bullets nor pellets can resolve Kashmir, India needs to learn from its mistakes

Saifuddin Soz in his book 'Kashmir: Glimpses of History and the Story of Struggle' writes that no amount of repression in Kashmir can solve the problem.

Jayaprakash Narayan was a strong opponent, with the moral authority that Indira Gandhi lacked

Coomi Kapoor's book The Emergency explores the complicated relationship between Jayaprakash Narayan and Indira Gandhi who widely differed in their opinions.

There is striking similarity between Indira Gandhi & Narendra Modi battling their inner demons

Ajoy Bose and John Dayal's book 'For Reasons of State: Delhi Under Emergency' draws parallels between the two leaders under whose regimes the marginalised suffered the most.

Rukhsana Sultana: Sanjay Gandhi’s ‘ice-cream buddy’ who ‘sent’ 8000 men to get vasectomies

Rasheed Kidwai's book 24 Akbar Road gives readers a glimpse at the lesser known personalities of the Emergency, including Sanjay Gandhi's associate Sultana who managed to...

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A white woman wants to see real India in Forster’s ‘Passage’. Britain is yet to find it

If the latest cohort of writers is anything to go by, it seems like colonisation continues to have an existential hold, particularly over British-Indian authors.

How India’s share in global goods exports has remained lower than what it was at Independence

Analysis of Indian data shows merchandise accounts for a shrinking share of India’s total export basket. This decline has accelerated since 2014, despite Modi govt's ‘Make in India’ push.

EU excludes procurement from most US, UK & Turkish defence firms through €150 bn defence fund

Looking to reduce reliance on the US, EU will urge its member-states to procure their military equipment from Europe, from European manufacturers.

One prime minister’s 19-month legacy is bigger than another’s Emergency

Shastri’s legacy is unfairly overshadowed by peace he made at Tashkent and a visit that also took his life. Among his contributions were Green Revolution and talent-hunting Dr Swaminathan.