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Pakistan’s just a Kabuki theatre. Army calls shots when politicians dare to align with India

In 'Crunch Time', Sreeram Chaulia calls Pakistan a textbook case of a ‘national security state’ where army has reigned supreme in relations with India.

The strange politics of planet JNU: How I got introduced to ‘Leftist intolerance’

In 'JNU: Nationalism and India's Uncivil War' academic Makarand R. Paranjape presents a ringside account of the problems of JNU and its implications.

How the average Indian’s emotional dependence on food is fueling widespread obesity

In 'Generation XL', one of India's leading bariatric surgeons, Dr Sanjay Borude explains how India's passion for food leads to a generational predisposition to obesity.

How dating apps exploit India’s loosely formed definition of ‘personal information’

In 'What Privacy Means', Siddharth Sonkar explains how an Indian citizen’s privacy is hardly ‘private’.

Khadi, cash, chauffeurs: How a Malayali queen impressed Gandhi

In 'Destiny's Child', Raghu Palat and Pushpa Palat write about Parukutty Neithyaramma, wife of the king of Cochin, who refused to live in her husband's shadow.

Will everything be done by the ‘babus’? How Modi’s outburst demoralised many IAS officers

In 'No More A Civil Servant', Anil Swarup talks about his close brushes with PM Modi in retrospect.

Bofors scandal – When Rajiv Gandhi’s biggest opposition was a swarm of angry journalists

In ‘The Commissioner for Lost Causes’, Arun Shourie writes about The Defamation Bill of 1988 that the press rose as one against.

Gandhi called railways ‘gigantic evil’. Second Covid wave would’ve changed his mind

In 'The Great Shutdown', Jyoti Mukul examines the repercussions of decisions during the Covid outbreaks and emotional crisis for millions of Indians.

How Phoolan Devi’s fortune changed during the prime of Mandal-Kamandal politics in UP

In ‘From Lucknow to Lutyens’, Abhigyan Prakash tells the fascinating story of Uttar Pradesh in post-Independence India and the intertwined fortunes of the two.

‘Dirty Indian’ to business tycoon of ‘60s following govt diktats, Gujarmal Modi saw it all

In 'Gujarmal Modi: The Resolute Industrialist', Sonu Bhasin talks about the inside story of India's seventh-largest business empire of the 1960s.

On Camera

AI can fix India’s reputation as a TB hub

AI can help see the unseen. Combining patient's comprehensive case histories with scans can lead to impressive results, such as in Japan.

Watch CutTheClutter: Flattening INR-USD rate, and debate on pros and cons of a ‘strong’ rupee

In Episode 1544 of CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at some top economists pointing to the pitfalls of ‘currency nationalism’ with data from 1991 to 2004.

All about Major Bob Khathing, whose daring expedition & diplomatic parleys secured Tawang for India

The decorated Naga officer from Manipur also served as envoy to Myanmar & Nagaland chief secy. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurated a museum dedicated to the Tawang hero Thursday.

Xi wanted to teach India about imbalance of power. We should take a budgetary lesson from it

While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.