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Haryana farmers’ AI Jugalbandi, Bengaluru’s Sarvam—West is keenly watching India’s progress

Officials from the US, Papua New Guinea, and Quad countries attended the Global Technology Summit in Bengaluru, where researchers discussed how AI can promote inclusive growth and improve governance.

Pakistani Hindu girls sing about their dream at IIT Delhi. They want home, govt jobs

The Sewa Nyaya Utthan Foundation brought three Pakistani Hindu refugee girls from Jodhpur to sing at IIT Delhi’s Rendezvous festival.

Sindhis have been missing in India’s Partition story. Now, they finally get an exhibition

The Partition Museum in Delhi now pays tribute to the unacknowledged pain of Sindhis. It blends oral histories, archival material, memory artifacts, and contemporary art from a scattered culture.

Mir Taqi Mir wasn’t a poet of longing like Ghalib. He lived in the resistance space

Translator Ranjit Hoskote shared translations of Mir’s verses on social media, as part of ‘Project Mir’, which later took the shape of his recent book, ‘The Homeland’s an Ocean’.

Gandhi ‘bamboozled’ Ambedkar into signing the Poona Pact—and later regretted it

‘Thank you, Gandhi’ looks at epochal moments of modern India and how they were framed by government response and a hostile political ecosystem.

The humble picture postcard acted as a powerful colonial propaganda tool for the British

Collector Ratnesh Mathur has put up 9,000 postcards at DAG in Delhi that showed how the humble pictures became foot soldiers of the British Empire.

Hindu sanskriti is a form of civilisation. We ignore this period of history—Pavan K Varma

The launch of Pavan K Varma’s new book, ‘The Great Hindu Civilisation’, saw a heated debate involving MP Abhishek Manu Singhvi, author and scientist Anand Ranganathan, and ex-MP Mahesh Jethmalani.

‘Waiting For Naseer’ is about finding fame on stage. Naseeruddin Shah is just a stand-in

The play is about two actors waiting to meet their inspiration—Naseeruddin Shah. The wait is an artifice to reflect on the state of theatre, artists’ insecurities, hypocrisies & fame.

Made in haste, built at wrong place, no footfall—India’s site museums are a sad story

Retired archaeologist Rajeev Dwivedi said at National Museum that most of the site museums have been built at the site of monuments. And that isn’t the right way to build museums.

Kolkata puja pandal bringing Durga & Bonbibi together. A sense of Sundarbans in the city

At the pandal, one would get to know the stories of faceless delta dwellers like Krishnapada Mandal and Mohammad Jolil Borkondas.

On Camera

Postcards from Hyderabad—stories Europeans told about the city

For all their colonial underpinnings, postcards from Hyderabad also inadvertently preserve a trace of local memory: a glimpse of a street, a face, a forgotten name.

Navigating Trump’s tariffs is no child’s play. Indian toymakers are losing out on orders, enquiries

Indian toymakers are now exploring new markets, but they want govt to negotiate a trade deal with US soon, introduce incentives and subsidies to make the industry more competitive.

What is Project Sudarshan Chakra, announced by Modi from ramparts of Red Fort

The project is meant to be a ‘protective shield that will keep expanding’, the PM said. It is on the lines of the ‘Golden Dome’ announced by Trump, it is learnt.

War of IAF, PAF doctrines: As Pakistan obsesses over numbers, India embraces risk, wins

Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?