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What Brigadier Saurabh Singh Shekhawat endured when he said he was a Rajput

In ‘Balidan’, Swapnil Pandey recounts the tales of soldiers from India’s Para Special Forces who have won the coveted Balidan badge.

This 7th-century boulder tells the tale of Arjuna’s penance to Shiva during Mahabharata

The bas relief is populated by 150 figures, ranging from gods, goddesses, rishis, hunters and animals to hybrid figures.

For every gaali Australians give us, respond with 3 gaalis—What Ravi Shastri told the boys

On the bus ride back to the hotel, MS slid into the seat next to Virat and said, ‘Look, Virat, you can chase down this total, you are that kind of a player.’

Govt has been counting India’s poor all wrong—it’s ad hoc, arbitrary

In 'An Alternative Development Agenda for India', Sanjay Kaul presents a transformative, sustainable developmental agenda for India, focusing on seven vital sectors and the systemic issues that plague them.

Marwaris replaced Bengalis as chief partners of British banks. Racism pushed them toward Gandhi

In 'Noncooperation in India', David Hardiman talks about how the Marwaris became the principle distributers of Manchester piece-goods in eastern India.

Yes Bank’s Rana Kapoor preferred Black Label, could drink half a bottle without getting drunk

Kapoor did not take kindly to employees quitting the bank. Once anyone expressed their intention to move on, Kapoor would ask that person to leave immediately.

When Bengalis and Bob Dylan staged ‘Concert for Bangladesh’ to highlight genocide

In 'India's Secret War', Ushinor Majumdar talks about how BSF soldiers were the first to experience the violence in Bengal.

‘Tigers die, rumors fly’ – when 5 mysterious tiger deaths took Nagarhole by storm

In 'Among Tigers', conservation zoologist K Ullas Karanth recounts his fierce efforts to recover wild tigers from the brink.

Amitabh, Salman were early movers on NFT rush, made crores

In 'Crypto Storm', Sundeep Khanna chronicles the story of the new-age currency that's gaining popularity among Indians.

Alzheimer was a doctor who discovered a ‘special illness’ in his 50-year-old German patient

In ‘My Father’s Brain’, Sandeep Jauhar recounts his parent’s experience with Alzheimer’s while delving into the history – and fallout – of the disease.

On Camera

Trump tariff forces India to shed illusion. Stop conflating status with power

India’s future lies in pragmatism. Protectionism must be phased out gradually, not in disruptive shocks.

BJP MPs go full throttle against Trump even as govt hails enduring India-US ties amid tariff tension

New Delhi: While the Indian government has made a measured response to the 25 percent trade tariff imposed by Donald Trump, many in the BJP...

India to get last of Spain-built C-295 next month, focus now on 1st India-made aircraft

New Delhi: The last of the C-295 transport aircraft that is replacing the ageing Avro fleet of the Indian Air Force (IAF) will be...

Modi’s Bharat vs Indira’s India: 11-yr report card of politics, diplomacy, economy, nationalism

As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.