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Fear, riots, but no ‘Muslim victimhood’— launch of ‘City on Fire’ puts Aligarh in spotlight

Journalist Zeyad Masroor Khan's memoir ‘City on Fire: A Boyhood in Aligarh’ was launched at Delhi's IIC, drawing authors & activists like Harsh Mander, Ziya Us Salam, and Natasha Badhwar.

MCD’s 1st pet crematorium giving dignified send offs to animals—memory garden, priest services

The facility at Dwarka Sector 29 that’s waiting to be inaugurated by Delhi L-G VK Saxena began operations earlier this month and promises to provide timely and ethical cremations.

Delhi-Dhaka ties up for debate. Are they best friends or will Chinese red line write them off

The discussion at Delhi's IIC was all about the legitimacy of the upcoming Bangladesh polls, US & India's position on Dhaka politics, and what Chinese influence means.

What happens in India’s corporate boardrooms? Not just CEO fights

A board needs to have the sense of a compass rather than the sense of a map – direction, not precision, said businessman and author R Gopalakrishnan at the launch of his 18th book in Delhi

Twinkle Khanna is fun, fearless and 50. Her Delhi book launch was all about ladies who laugh

Twinkle Khanna launched her new book, Welcome to Paradise, with author Shrayana Bhattacharya at Delhi’s Sunder Nursery.

Who robbed India’s tribes of language, livelihood? Not Vedas, Upanishads, but British laws

Padma Shri awardee Ganesh Devy cut through the jargon to expose how British-era laws shape modern India during the 7th annual lecture of the Vidhi Centre of Legal Policy at Delhi’s IIC.

Educator & watchmaker David Hare made Bengali classrooms ‘secular’ in 19th century

Pioneer of modern education in India, Hare befriended reformers such as Raja Ram Mohan Roy and conservative Hindus like Radhakanta Deb.

Congress’ Jawaharlal Darda helped Fernandes, Vajpayee. Now his biography unites rivals

The book captures Darda’s life as a Gandhian, freedom fighter, statesman, philanthropist, social worker and senior minister in Maharashtra government.

‘Narrative Ka Mayajaal’ book talk was a meeting of parents worried about the ‘ecosystem’

There is one Ramayana that is taught at home but when children step out, they learn 50 other versions. They come back and question their parents, said Supreme Court lawyer Monika Arora.

UCC to Modi’s return in 2024, Delhi book launch discusses an ‘inevitable’ Hindu Rashtra

In the elite world of Lutyens, speaking about the Upanishads was akin to having become a ‘sanghi’, said diplomat Pavan Varma at the Delhi launch of ‘Modi and India’.

On Camera

Why worry about water or jobs? In New Bharat, everybody wants to be an influencer

In a country where unemployment is at a historic high, the national anxiety isn’t about jobs — it’s about reach. Aspirations have shifted from employment to engagement, from careers to content.

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...

What’s standing between Modi & Trump? India’s contradictions

Psychoanalysing Donald Trump is a booming global business. We in India are doing our bit. The only objective, however, is to find a way...