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Not wearing a saree may be an issue in Carnatic music. Wearing one won’t be a bed of roses either

In the book, Songs of the Clay Pot: My Journey With Ghatam, Sumana Chandrasekar talks about those issues that we ponder about when we consider women and percussion.

‘Don’t call me Boomer.’ On being young, young-old, and old-old

In her memoir, 'Aging (Un)Gracefully', Lalita Iyer takes a deep dive into the many ways in which the process is both a ‘growing up’ and a liberation.

When the British suffered a humiliating defeat against Mughal navy in 1690

In 'Murarirao Ghorpade', Reeta Ramamurthy Gupta and Indrajeet Ghorpade offer a tale of military conquests, espionage, forbidden love and loyalty in 18th-century Deccan.

Who has the rights over Nepal’s historic Taleju Bhawani necklace?

In 2021, Nepal’s state department of archaeology submitted a request to the Art Institute of Chicago for the repatriation of the necklace. No action followed.

DDLJ, Devdas, Shakti—what trains represent in SRK films

In 'Shah Rukh Khan and the Railway Narratives', Ankur Konar analyses the emotion, drama, and romance in the train scenes in SRK films.

Don’t call student protests a revolution. It was a terror attack on Bangladesh: Sheikh Hasina

In their upcoming book, 'Inshallah Bangladesh', authors Deep Halder, Jaideep Mazumdar, and Sahidul Hasan Khokon offer the first full chronicle of the political upheavals in the country in 2024.

India’s Supreme Court is a decorated superstructure with a dilapidated base

Devesh Kapur and Arvind Subramanian's 'A Sixth of Humanity' has been called a definitive development history of India.

When Giorgia Meloni announced her pregnancy, and was met with insults, sarcasm, controversy

In I Am Giorgia: My Roots, My Principles, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has penned down her inspiring and historic journey.

Who are the favourite politicians of Indian women voters? It’s not a long list

Ruhi Tewari's book 'What Women Want: Understanding the Female Voter in Modern India' is a portrait of Indian democracy that sees women as its most ambitious stakeholders and perhaps even its kingmakers.

How wolf warrior diplomacy cost China its soft power in 2020

In 'Decoding China', edited by Ashok K Kantha, Indian diplomats, military officials, and scholars evaluate the country's internal and external dynamics.

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The govt’s ‘fix’ to speed up insolvency could add at least a year to the process

The proposed amendment to the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code aims to reduce timelines and provide for a mechanism that involves minimal interaction with the court. It fails on both counts.

No more text-heavy ads, wider scope of services—ICAI’s ethics code overhaul to promote Indian CA firms

Open to public feedback until 26 November, the revised guidelines, among other changes, give CA firms more flexibility to advertise & promote their services.

‘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.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.