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When Spielberg got a lesson in flip-thinking from Harrison Ford on the sets of Indiana Jones

The strategy of acceptance is the first of the 15 strategies for good reason. You could look at acceptance as the mother of all strategies.

How Latin American fiction influenced India’s ‘magical and fabulous’ literary mind

In ‘Under the Bhasha Gaze’, PP Raveendran studies Indian literature in the context of modernity and its theoretical extensions.

Why you should not copy Rakesh Jhunjhunwala completely

For retail investors, borrowing to trade is not a great strategy. The market can be irrational in the short run, longer than you can stay solvent—even if you’ve made the right bets.

Science borrowed salvation from Christianity. Then came new religious movement—Apocalyptic AI

In 'Futures of Artificial Intelligence: Perspectives from India and the U.S.' Robert M Geraci takes a novel approach to the study of religion and Artificial Intelligence across multiple domains.

‘Fearless, pugnacious’—How 9-year-old Ambedkar rose from depths of caste degradation

In ‘Ambedkar: A Life’, Congress leader Shashi Tharoor chronicles the life and times of the father of India’s Constitution.

How HCL-Nokia partnership made mobile phones affordable for Indians in the 1990s

In 'Just Aspire', HCL co-founder Ajai Chowdhry traces how the average Indian started using their first affordable mobile phone.

When VJ Patel’s Hindu inter-caste marriage bill caused ‘great alarm’ among Brahmins

In ‘Caste Pride: Battle for Equality in Hindu India’, Manoj Mitta analyses the historic characters, speeches and decisions that shaped India’s war on caste.

Was Ambedkar an avatar of God? A group of Mahar Sadhus thought so

In 'Becoming Babasaheb: The Life and Times of Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (Volume I)', Aakash Singh Rathore explores Ambedkar’s personality beyond his intellectual pursuits.

What you didn’t know about Ambedkar’s Poona Pact journey: celebration to criticism

Ashok Gopal’s A Part Apart: The Life and Thought of B.R. Ambedkar, the first complete biography of Ambedkar published by Navayana on the eve of the 132nd birth anniversary, sheds new light on the Ambedkar–Gandhi debate by paying attention to Ambedkar’s writings in Marathi on the Poona Pact and his evolving views on Gandhi.

How old is the Gudimallam stone Lingam? Historians debate age of ancient Shiva linga

Located at a small village temple in Andhra Pradesh, this Shiva linga is carved from highly polished, reddish-brown rock and is enclosed in an apsidal sanctum, or garbhagriha.

On Camera

iPhone craze, Goa trips, to making ends meet, ‘addictive’ instant loan apps leading many into debt trap

Unsecured loans have been a concern for RBI for a while now. Last year, it took steps to make it more expensive for banks, NBFCs to give them out in bid to deter such borrowing.

Army does ‘physical verification’ of Chinese pullout from Depsang, ‘escorted patrolling’ mooted in East

First patrol since January 2020 in Depsang Plains will start this week. It's understood that Army will carry out patroling to PP 10, 11, 12, 12A & 13.

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

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.