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Delhi CR Park Durga Puja pandal brings new Parliament, Sengol to Bengalis

'We have had Somnath Temple and even a model of Ram Mandir before. Why not dedicate the pandal to the temple of our democracy?' says the president of the puja committee.

Dagar, Rahman & music in the courtroom—Day 1 of Dhrupad maestro’s fight against film giants

Ustad Wasifuddin Dagar claims that AR Rahman has ‘copied’ his family’s Dhrupad composition, Shiva Stuti, for the song Veera Raja Veera in the Tamil blockbuster Ponniyin Selvan-2.

‘Women in jail need therapy, not punishment,’ says Sudha Bharadwaj

Sudha Bharadwaj spent almost all her time at Mumbai Byculla Women's Jail helping fellow prisoners with filing legal petitions and applications.

Love stories of British men & Indian women in colonial India have an unusual home—Calcutta HC

British men's Indian lovers were called Mary, Polly in their wills. Colonial court records show

First Durga Puja idol worship in Ramakrishna Mission Delhi. Kumari puja, Belur rituals

For its first four-day Durga Puja celebration with an idol, Ramakrishna Mission Delhi centre has drawn up a budget of approximately Rs 60 lakh.

Brahmin, anti-caste, caring for cows — a writer walks on eggshells of Hindutva & Ambedkar

Yamini Narayanan's book Mother Cow, Mother India says that violence is inherent to dairying and slaughter is an essential part of the milk production line.

Partition calendars, Gandhi-Jinnah posters—pre-Independence public art of India and Pakistan

Filmmaker Yousuf Saeed’s 'Bazaar Art' collection of calendars, posters, and greeting cards examines pre-independence India, freedom struggle, and Partition through ordinary artifacts.

A memoir about 3 Peshawar sisters traces Partition history with new lens. No blood & gore

Indira Verma says it is almost as if she underwent two separate births — the physical one in Peshawar and a rebirth in India. And Lest We Forget is a repository of this experience.

Fact-finding isn’t easy in new India, more so for independent groups. What’s the way out?

Retired justices RS Chauhan, Madan B Lokur, AltNews co-founder Pratik Sinha, and PUCL president Kavita Srivastava discuss Gandhi and the challenging role played by fact-finding missions.

Making Ashoka Great Again. New book picks up where Romila Thapar left

Author Patrick Olivelle's book, 'Ashoka: Portrait of a Philosopher King', locates history within legends and mythologies by tracing the Buddhist king's intellectual journey.

On Camera

Indians have a complicated relationship with Zohran Mamdani

Mamdani’s politics feels unusual compared to India’s current climate. He unapologetically foregrounds Muslim identity at a time when doing so in India invites scrutiny.

What does NCLAT order mean for data-sharing ban, penalty imposed by CCI on Meta & WhatsApp

On 4 November 2025, NCLAT bench, comprising Chairperson Justice Ashok Bhushan and Member Arun Baroka, noted that WhatsApp and Meta are distinct legal entities.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.