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Does the old international order get the brave new India? What Dhruva Jaishankar says

In 'Vishwa Shastra', Dhruva Jaishankar offers his perspective on how India could define the emerging world order.

Nehru wanted India to develop a scientific temper. Today’s leaders are doing the opposite

In 'Nehru’s India', Aditya Mukherjee explains the former PM's idea of India and his efforts to discover, champion, and defend it.

‘Don’t call it god particle’—physicist Ashutosh Kotwal keeps science & spirituality separate

In ‘Beyond the Higgs Boson’, Manik Kotwal writes about her son and physicist Ashutosh Kotwal, whose work is crucial to the study of particle physics.

How the US created an illusion of ‘saving’ Pakistan from India during the 1971 war

With telling revelations, memoir, and account of history, Ajay Bisaria's 'Anger Management' is a study of the diplomatic engagement between India and Pakistan.

‘Marquez is a Malayali’—Kerala loves Cuba & its romantic communism

In ‘Mad About Cuba’, Ullekh NP draws on the connection between Cuba and Kerala. The book is the result of an upbringing in the Marxist stronghold of Kannur and a trip to Cuba in 2023.

I was PM, but I didn’t know nuances of running a country: Indira Gandhi told Najma Heptulla

'When she began to break free from their shackles, and take her own decisions, they wanted to teach her a lesson. Their politics of patronage tipped her towards her downfall,' Najma Heptulla writes in 'In Pursuit of Democracy: Beyond Party Lines.'

Ambedkar dismissed bhakti saints for not questioning chaturvarna forcefully enough

The ‘Notbook of Kabir’ is the story of how author Anand loses himself in the pursuit of the saint.

British art, literature couldn’t get enough of Tipu Sultan in 1700s. Oriental exoticism ruled

‘Tipu Sultan: The Saga of Mysore’s Interregnum (1760–1799)’ by Vikram Sampath opens a window to the life and times of one of the most debated figures from India’s history.

This Nagpur poha shop never skimps on onion—customers have to chop it themselves

In ‘Bazaar Bites’, Priya Bala and Jayanth Narayanan travel across India to document the best street food trails and the stories behind the dishes.

Govt’s fuzzy notion of Amrit Kaal won’t take us anywhere. It doesn’t define a developed India

In 'The Ten Trillion Dream Dented', Subhash Chandra Garg analyses the performance of the Indian economy under the Modi govt.

On Camera

Why Tejashwi Yadav failed—Bihar changed, RJD didn’t

RJD, once a prominent representative of Mandal politics, now finds itself in a political era where welfare, good governance, and new aspirations are overshadowing old caste equations.

As govt starts rolling back Quality Control Orders, a look at adverse impact they had, mainly on MSMEs

Between 2016 and 2025, around 700 QCOs were issued by the government. Now, it has withdrawn 69 of them.

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.