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During Emergency, Jayaprakash Narayan was detained in a hospital & could have been poisoned

In his memoirs, J.P. Goyal, a key lawyer for Raj Narain in his case against Indira Gandhi, wrote about meeting detained opposition leaders during the 1975 Emergency.

Siri, Cortana, Alexa: Why our AIs have personalities and a female voice

Conversation designers widely report that people flirt with, sexually proposition, and even harass bots.

Why India’s prime ministers give their Independence day speech from Delhi’s Red Fort

Every year on 15 August, the serving prime minister mounts Aurangzeb’s barbican to address the cameras, and the nation.

‘RSS is family’ and what to do with non-Hindus: An RSS trainee’s camp notebook

Many RSS camp participants keep notebooks, in which they record the words of patriotic songs, take notes on physical exercises, and games.

Argumentative & individualist – Why Modi was an unusual RSS swayamsevak

Whereas many RSS apparatchiks were grounded in inherited certitudes, Modi was forever pushing the frontiers of his own intellectual development.

Grammy-nominated Lakshmi Shankar’s dream debut was shattered by gossip and jealousies

Singer Lakshmi Shankar’s interest in Hindustani music was by now unshakable and she was not ready to give up on her dream.

But where will I live? The right to residence of domestic violence victims in India

The centrality of securing women’s right to adequate housing as a vital step in the fight against domestic violence needs be recognised urgently.

What was Amit Shah like as home minister of Gujarat? Biographers give an insight

After 2008 Ahmedabad blasts, Gujarat took down the terrorists and as Shah had promised, such acts were never again repeated in Gujarat.

Hindutva rise must be pinned on historians who told us Hindus, Muslims lived peacefully once

Imperialism, for India’s ‘secular’ historians, was destructive only when Europeans did it. When Asians did it, it was a cultural exchange programme.

Babur to WWII to Sonia Gandhi, all connected through the tamarind tree in India

The Arabs, who had trade relations with India as early as 600 AD, loved the tree as much as we do. They gave it the name Tamar-i-Hind.

On Camera

Bangladesh has been running a never-ending revenge drama. Hasina is the latest

If elections happen in Bangladesh next year with the Awami League’s participation, there is every possibility of a sudden surprise around the bend. One can only hope it would not be bloody.

The day Dharmendra ‘died’

Naidu matches Jagan’s Rs 13L crore investment playbook, with a ‘speed of doing business’ caveat

Naidu’s summit brings in MoUs on same scale as Jagan’s, but CM says his plans built on speed, certainty & investor trust, with escrow accounts, simplified incentives & real-time oversight.

Drone manufacturer ideaForge wins orders worth over Rs 100 crore from Army

ideaForge has formed a joint venture to manufacture and market UAVs in the US. Its Q6 UAV is now included in NATO and allied procurement systems.

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.