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Delhi’s Partition Museum remembers pain of separation—through artefacts, images, personal items

Dara Shikoh Library Building in Old Delhi is the site of India's second Partition Museum, after Amritsar. Much of the material has been acquired through archives of artist Amar Nath Sahgal.

This ex-DSP couldn’t bring Mukhtar Ansari down. Now he’s watching Yogi grind his empire to dust

Shailendra Singh’s dogged pursuit of Mukhtar Ansari cost him everything he had worked for all his life. But the events that led to his resignation in 2004 are playing out now.

Transgender cop claims colleagues harassed her. Her reality the norm for India’s queer workforce

Nazriya’s years in service are a spiral of allegations, counter-allegations. The blame game exposes the casual treatment the community gets when trying to enter the mainstream.

80 years of qawwali in Bombay cinema — one man is archiving Hindi music’s crown jewel

Archivist Yousuf Saeed says that even hardcore movie buffs may only be able to name 10 qawwalis. The Cinema Qawwali Archive lists over 700 songs.

Mumbai’s undersea tunnel set to break through—It took 160 people, 2800-tonne machine

Mumbai’s undersea twin tunnels, which will have 3 lanes on either side, are a crucial part of the 10.5-km coastal road project that'll be named after Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj.

Hope in US, fear in Telugu land—Students’ American Dream is trapped in a crossfire

US gun culture and frequent mass shootings worries parents in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, but the allure of a prosperous future for their children outweighs concerns for safety.

‘They came with 6 JCBs’— How eviction of a tiny village sparked fires across Manipur

State authorities bulldozed Kuki settlement of K. Songjang on 20 Feb because it purportedly encroached on protected forest land, but incident fuelled a series of protests and conflict.

In this Chhattisgarh village, spectre of love jihad is rising. BJP sees a window

The FIRs, arrests, and compensations are unlikely to heal the rifts. Friendships and relationships are forever fractured in Biranpur.

North Indian artisans carry a photo of this textile historian — she helped revive their craft

The British textile historian and designer has founded two successful companies that celebrate Indian textiles.

A remote Bihar village, double-murder, a runaway Panchayat. And a mega constitutional crisis

All development in Tarbari village has come to a standstill since the murder in June last year. Attempts at solutions have only caused more problems.

On Camera

Trump’s 28 points for Ukraine add up to a no-go at peace

Two questions are pertinent: Why does the Trump administration keep making the same mistakes on the peace proposal? And what does a hurried peace plan mean on the ground?

At Charcha 2025: Local entrepreneurship, not just big IT, will drive next wave of distributed AI work

While global corporations setting up GCCs in India continue to express confidence in availability of skilled AI engineers, the panel argued that India’s real challenge lies elsewhere.

Tejas fighter aircraft crashes at Dubai Air Show, IAF confirms pilot’s death

This is the second such incident after a Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas had crashed into a hostel on the outskirts of Jaisalmer in March last year.

INDIA has a Congress-sized hole. And the fix begins with a little humility

Without a Congress revival, there can be no challenge to the BJP pan-nationally. Modi’s party is growing, and almost entirely at the cost of the Congress.