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The first googly was a party trick. A British cricketer discovered it with a tennis ball

Abhishek Mukherjee - July 28, 2025

Nirmala Sitharaman asked for a change that made finance secretary Garg quit the IAS

CAG missed out on examining demonetisation despite announcing that it would do so

Assamese cinema was born in a tea garden. 1935 film ‘Jaimati’ was the first

A fall through a sinkhole on prime Bengaluru property led to discovery of a hidden temple

Tulasi Srinivas - February 24, 2019

An ancient temple's discovery illuminates the connections between present-day life and the past as a 'place' to be opened, imagined, and inhabited.

Nazi propaganda isn’t dead, it now happens on WhatsApp

Shivam Shankar Singh - February 17, 2019

From BJP to Congress, political parties understand Nazi minister Joseph Goebbels' mantra that people will believe a lie if repeated often enough.

The IITs have a long history of systematically othering Dalit students

Yashica Dutt - February 17, 2019

The toxic belief that ‘quota students’ are innately less able than ‘mainstream students’ is at the heart of this caste-based exclusion.

Jallianwala Bagh massacre: ‘Amidst hundreds of corpses, I passed my night, crying and watching’

Kim A. Wagner - February 17, 2019

As the bodies and crowds blocked the exits, bullets would ricochet off the surrounding walls, or fragment, and injure more people.

What would happen to the world if China becomes the next US

Bruno Macaes - February 10, 2019

Where is China headed? Here are four possible scenarios.

Jinnah felt Pakistani & Indian soldiers would fight side by side against invaders

Kuldip Nayar - February 10, 2019

Journalist Kuldip Nayar recounts Lal Bahadur Shastri saying Kashmir may have had a different fate if what Jinnah believed had come true.

Selfless national interest doesn’t quite drive corporate-politician ties: Ratan Tata

Ratan Tata - February 9, 2019

Money's corrupting role in Indian politics has only grown since the country's independence, writes Ratan Tata

What a bra & panty business park near Visakhapatnam can teach Modi about job creation

Goutam Das - February 4, 2019

The park is a textbook case on how clustering can make smaller companies competitive and more productive, and enable them to generate employment.

By 2017, Modi had belied the hopes he raised in 2014

Ruchir Sharma - February 3, 2019

Modi rapidly expanded same welfare schemes he had called a leading symbol of India’s economic underachievement under the Congress.

Some sects of Hinduism encourage sex during your periods

Nithin Sridhar - February 3, 2019

Menstrual blood is, in fact, considered pure and sacred, and plays a very important role in certain Tantric rituals.

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Book Excerpts

The first googly was a party trick. A British cricketer discovered it with a tennis ball

Nirmala Sitharaman asked for a change that made finance secretary Garg quit the IAS

CAG missed out on examining demonetisation despite announcing that it would do so

Assamese cinema was born in a tea garden. 1935 film ‘Jaimati’ was the first

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