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1947 & 2047—former judge AP Shah returns to history, Gandhian era to fix India’s future

AP Shah was once in love with Savarkar's poetry and his grandfather was the president of the Hindu Mahasabha. Today, he laments the rise of Hindutva politics.

There’s a search for lesser known freedom fighters in India. New novel jumps in with Santhals

Tuhin A. Sinha and Suraj Prasad’s latest historical novel, Sido Kanhu: The Santhal Hul, Bharat’s First War of Independence’, was recently launched at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts.

‘Narasimha Rao was first BJP PM, doing puja when Babri Masjid fell’—Mani Shankar Aiyar

He was speaking at the launch of his autobiography to a high profile audience that included former VP Hamid Ansari, Sonia Gandhi, former foreign secretaries and MPs.

Indians must rise like tsunami, uphold Constitutional morality–IIC Public Policy Debate Series

There were mentions of the violence in Manipur and Haryana’s Nuh, three proposed criminal laws and more at the first lecture of the ‘Public Policy Debate Series’ in Delhi.

It’s the Merchants of Marwar who gave a new meaning to being Hindu—before the British came

In her book, Merchants of Virtue: Hindus, Muslims, Untouchables in Eighteenth-Century South Asia, Divya Cherian studies the mercantile class as agents of social and legal change.

Question on everybody’s mind at Delhi book launch – Is the Arab-Israeli conflict still on?

New Delhi’s relationship with Tel Aviv has seen many crests and troughs – including a time where it was considered blasphemous to even name the latter in India.

‘Two services for the salary of one’ — the challenges of being the spouse of an IFS officer

Reba Som notes that for a diplomat, a new country feels familiar as Indian embassies remain under the MEA and “have the same flavour”, this was not the case for their spouses.

Qutub Minar turns into Burj Khalifa every night. It becomes a screen for Indian culture

From the success of Tamil Nadu's Odanthurai village to Meghalaya’s Kongthong, the show, designed by tech company Tagbin, captures empowering stories.

12,000 yrs, 101 chapters and one question—How many pasts does India have?

The Indians answers the question that has become a hot-button issue today: What is the history of India? It identifies 3 missing parts of history-J&K, nomads, sea life.

Shabana Azmi to Naseeruddin Shah, how Bollywood stars breathed life into Delhi’s theatre scene

Events such as the Delhi Theatre Festival, Mahindra Excellence in Theatre Awards, and Bharat Rang Mahotsav are nothing short of cultural celebrations for the capital’s theatre enthusiasts.

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Pakistan can’t bomb or bargain its way out of the TTP-TLP mess

Among the many problems Pakistan is currently dealing with, the TLP and TTP offer two varying dimensions of the same one.

Kerala’s silent startup surge—work near home, smooth roads, fast internet & diaspora engagement

Once seen as a fading presence on India’s investment & startup picture, the state is slowly moving up the ladder, with policy reforms & infrastructure building.

India & Israel ink agreement to share, co-develop & co-produce advanced defence tech

Agreement signed during 17th Joint Working Group (JWG) on defence cooperation. Defence Secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh met Director General in Israeli Ministry of Defence Amir Baram Tuesday. 

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.