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‘Govt more focused on successful diaspora’—Nehru’s ‘active dissociation’ vs Modi’s outreach

The rise of hyperconnectivity has led to a generation that is physically in a foreign nation but is rooted at home. ‘The idea is that everyone is India.’

Indian agriculture is ‘a walled-off garden stuck in the 60s’. Private investment is the answer

Of the 1,17,254 Indian startups, barely 3,000 are classified as agri-tech startups, and not one of these features in the 100-odd unicorns. What’s plaguing the industry?

Space for political documentary films is shrinking. No university spaces, a crisis point

Street censorship, absence of funding, and lack of support from prominent film festivals have created a crisis for political documentaries in India.

Do archives truly own the records they have? Guidebook for archivists can bridge laws, ethics

The folk song Nimbooda belonged to the Manganiar community in Rajasthan but they never got credit for it. The Bollywood producers took away all the profits.

Kabul tales to Adani encounter, book launch dishes glam & grit of business travel

‘Going Places’, featuring the travel tales of 21 business leaders from around the world, was launched at Delhi’s IIC last week. 1st class & 5-star can come with frustrations too.

Theatre is therapy—When MK Raina put on a play with Muslim and Kashmiri Pandit children

When Raina put up his first show after months of secret workshops, people from nearby districts crowded buses to watch it. That was his sign to keep going.

Villain to anti-hero to now hero status, Hindi novel shows Savarkar’s courage, compassion

‘Kamalkant Tripathi has had the bravery to write about Savarkar, which has given us the bravery to talk about it,' said panelist and JNU professor Omprakash Singh.

50 yrs of Meghalaya history, 6000 photos were trashed. A Northeast archive rescued it

Junisha Khongwir, a curator at the Northeast India Audio Visual Archive, recalled in an online event the importance of bringing archival materials back to the communities from which they originated.

India’s Portuguese connection doesn’t begin and end with Goa. It has a Chennai angle too

In the Coromandel Coast, Portuguese settlements existed in Mylapore, Pulicat and Nagapattinam. Renegades were conducting trade with South East Asia.

Who did Nehru pick as his first India Foreign Service cadre? Poets, scholars, rebels

Mani Shankar Aiyar, Karan Singh, and Purushottam Agrawal came together to launch Kallol Bhattacherjee's new book at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of South Asia in New Delhi.

On Camera

US has misread India. New Delhi will hedge, push back, and assert

India’s foreign policy today is driven less by Western alignment or global liberalism and more by domestic political imperatives — economic, ideological, and electoral.

Smartphones, gems, pharma: Which Indian exports will be worst hit by Trump tariffs, which will be spared

Electronics—specifically smartphones—& energy & pharma products make up 30% of Indian exports to US. 25% tariff on India came into effect Thursday, extra 25% to kick in by August-end.

Pakistan army chief Asim Munir to attend CENTCOM chief’s farewell, second visit to US in two months

Munir was earlier in America in June when he had a two-hour luncheon meeting with the US president at the White House.

Pakistan, Dhaka have played Washington well. Back home, Modi ecosystem has an inner conflict

To protect ourselves from Trumpian diplomacy, first we must introspect the bipolarity within our establishment discourse.