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Irrfan was no prisoner to image. He singlehandedly lifted the status of ‘character actors’

Shubhra Gupta -
In ‘Irrfan: A Life in Movies’, film critic Shubhra Gupta engages Bollywood and beyond in conversation about the star’s art, craft, life and legacy.
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Gandhi was fascinated by Tirukkural. He would learn Tamil for it

A Ramasamy -
In 'Gandhi's Travels in Tamil Nadu', A Ramasamy explores how Gandhi fell to the lure of the Tamil language.
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When Hyderabad Nizam brought women of his court out of purdah & they became freedom fighters

Abid Hasan Safrani -
In 'Netaji's Comrade-in-Arms', Abid Hasan Safrani explores the central role played by the women of Hyderabad in the freedom movement.
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Sidhu Moosewala was a shy boy who rarely talked – The aggression in his songs shocked everyone

Jupinderjit Singh -
In ‘Who Killed Moosewala’, award-winning journalist Jupinderjit Singh recounts the short but incredible life of Punjabi music sensation Sidhu Moosewala.
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LSR was a labour of love for Lala Shri Ram. He even picked library books himself

Sonu Bhasin -
In ‘Lala Shri Ram: The Man Who Saw Tomorrow’, Sonu Bhasin recounts the incredible life of India’s earliest — and biggest — industrialist.
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‘No thought, no progress’— when libraries began dying in Kashmir, educated started reading less

David Lepeska -
In ‘Dessicated Land - An American in Kashmir’, journalist David Lepeska gathers his best work for Kashmir Observer to explore the reality of daily life in a war-torn state.
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Homi Bhabha loved Delhi for its monuments. He thought PWD architects would ruin the city

Bakhtiar K. Dadabhoy -
Bakhtiar K Dadabhoy's full-fledged biography of Homi J. Bhabha provides a good vehicle for telling the story of Indian science and the foundations of India’s atomic energy programme.
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The world is growing enough crops. But they’re being used for fuel, not food

Hamish McRae -
In ‘The World in 2050’, Hamish McRae looks at the changing face of demography, finance, technology and the environment.
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Reimagining the role of bonds and loans in financing a nature-positive future

Siddarth Shrikanth -
In 'The Case for Nature', Siddarth Shrikanth says embracing regrowth might seem like the only option. But the 'market' is a social construct.
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Indian elections have evolved a lot like arranged marriages. Technology is the disruptor

Pradeep Gupta -
Technology has enabled voters today to share notes and build a consensus on who is ‘deserving’.
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1,000% rise in 4 yrs to 40% fall in just few months, why defence stocks are going from boom to bust

TCA Sharad Raghavan -
Stocks of defence firms surged in past few yrs, by over 1,000% in some cases, driven by narrative that they would gain from govt’s domestic procurement push. Now, those stocks are tanking.

Defence

Modi calls new Airbus C295 plant example of ‘New India’ at inauguration with Spanish PM

Keshav Padmanabhan -
Spanish leader assures full transfer of technology to the Tata Advanced Systems Limited plant which will build 40 planes between 2026 and 2031.

National Interest

From 2004 to 2024, bad news has come wrapped as good news for Congress

Shekhar Gupta -
Congress is silently acknowledging it over-read verdict of last general election. You can see it in easy concession to SP. It will likely be more reasonable in Maharashtra & Jharkhand.

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