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Indians and their cultural inferiority complex, explains Romila Thapar

In this chapter from 'Speaking of History', Romila Thapar and Namit Arora discuss the cultural inferiority complex among Indians.

Caste Hindus lobbied the Constituent Assembly to defend untouchability as a ‘religious right’

In Assembling India’s Constitution: A New Democratic History, Rohit De and Ornit Shani show how upper-caste Hindus tried to protect caste privilege by presenting themselves as a minority under threat.

The modern man is a lethal mix of entitled narcissism, crippling self-doubt

In his book, 'Memes for Mummyji', Santosh Desai chronicles the everyday theatre of Indian life in the digital age.

What made the Goa stone the most coveted antidote of its time

The stone was made from a small quantity of natural bezoar blended into a paste along with various other substances meant to enhance its healing properties.

Indian intellectuals still can’t decode Narendra Modi

In Modi's Mission, Berjis Desai traces Modi’s national rise and why it unsettled India’s intellectual elite.

When gangsters Amirzada and Alamzeb made an enemy of Bollywood actor Dilip Kumar

In 'When It All Began', Rakesh Maria reflects on the tumultuous history of Mumbai's underworld, tracing the full arc of the city's gang wars.

Pune’s century-old Holkar bridge & its hair-raising stories—apparitions to embodied voices

In 'Ghost Whispers', Neil D'Silva and Sarbajeet Mohanty sketch spine-chilling stories of paranormal investigations.

Bollywood legend Daisy Irani was starved, beaten, abused as a child star

In 'Behind the Big Screen', Sunanda Mehta and Suchitra Iyer chronicle the dizzying highs and crushing lows of Bollywood's child actors.

How Mumbai grew—and became crowded

In 'Mumbai', Sidharth Bhatia takes a piercing look at a city in the throes of relentless transformation, where change has become a weapon of displacement.

Why UP top cop Prashant Kumar didn’t live in his 7-acre DGP house. ‘Aadat bigad jaati hai’

In 'The Enforcer', Anirudhya Mitra traces former UP DGP Prashant Kumar's journey through shifting governments, countless operations, and public scrutiny.

On Camera

Violence over Osman Hadi is about Islamist Bangladesh. India-baiting is a distraction

The attack on Chhayanaut, newspaper offices, and the public lynching of a Hindu man show that Bangladesh is heading toward Islamist rule, far removed from electoral democracy.

China is taking India to WTO over subsidies, again. Here’s what it’s arguing before trade body

Dispute will now move to consultative process, which allows the two sides to come to an amicable agreement within 60 days.

Israel has ‘realised who its real friend is’, eyes defence expansion in India amid arms curbs by others

It is argued that India-Israel ties are moving from buyer–seller dynamic to one focused on joint development & manufacturing partnership, a shift 'more durable' than traditional arms sales.

Dhurandhar shows hard cinema is soft power and Pakistan is unapologetically the target

If Pathaan gave both conservatives and liberals room to hide, Dhurandhar extends no such courtesy. Aditya Dhar ripped open that tent of hypocrisy and turned the knife.