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Declaring India ODF doesn’t mean much if there is no cross-verification with big data

In 'The Swachh Bharat Revolution', edited by Parameswaran Iyer, Bibek Debroy highlights the questions that should be asked about India’s ODF status.

Pakistan TV and Pakistan Radio were guilty pleasures of many Kashmiris after Independence

In 'The Other Side of The Divide', Sameer Arshad Khatlani writes about how radio crossed the India-Pakistan border after Partition.

The idea of ‘safe spaces’ has turned on itself to exclude everyone who dares to differ

In 'Groupthink: A Study in Self Delusion', Christopher Booker writes about how the idea of ‘safe spaces’ came about in college campuses in the US and UK.

Saina Nehwal fell out with coach Gopi when her Olympic win got him students like PV Sindhu

In Dreams of a Billion, Boria Majumdar and Nalin Mehta write about Saina Nehwal’s journey to Olympic win and her turbulent relationship with her coach.

Both China and India opted for SEZs. But here’s why China raced ahead and India lost track

In 'All the Wrong Turns', T.C.A Ranganathan and T.C.A Srinivasa Raghavan explain how Deng Xiaoping's SEZ project in 1970s set the pace for China's economic rise.

Who will watch the watchmen? How my guidelines helped SC put down laws for police action

In ‘From the Trenches’, lawyer and Congress politician Abhishek Manu Singhvi writes about SC’s decision in D.K. Basu v. State of West Bengal case on police safeguards.

Spot boy Salim Shaikh is called ‘Action’ & loved Shashi Kapoor for bringing food for all

Screenwriter and filmmaker Rakesh Anand Bakshi in his new book, Director’s Diaries 2, interviews Salim Shaikh, who has worked for decades as a ‘spotboy’ in Bollywood and earned his own repute.

Stop ‘prabhat pheris’, the British told Gandhi. It’s a vulgar nuisance, threatens civic order

In 'Singing Gandhi's India', Lakshmi Subramanian writes about why Gandhi insisted on supporting musical processions despite the controversy over them in 1930s.

Morarji Desai saw this letter from Indira Gandhi as a brazen attack on his self-respect and resigned

In Morarji Desai: A Profile in Courage, Arvindar Singh writes about how 1969 was a turning point in Morarji’s life and in the history of India.

For a broke Pakistan, Bahawalpur was the kingdom that kept on giving. Then it vanished

In Bahawalpur, Anabel Loyd writes about how the wealthy nawab of the kingdom met Pakistan’s expenses post-Partition and was also forced to give up its army.

On Camera

India’s TRP ecosystem needs a reset. Time to end BARC monopoly

A ratings monopoly in India has led to lack of technological variation, resulting in sluggish systems detached from market dynamics.

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

Not just AK-203, India & Russia to jointly manufacture AK-19 and PPK-20 for domestic use and export 

India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.

Strategic partner one day, tactical nightmare the next: India’s learning Trumplomacy the hard way

Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.