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If you are lucky, your organisation might already be supporting your non-work passions

In 'Headstart', Vivek Gambhir and Sunder Ramachandran unlock secrets to career success—from acing job transitions to mastering new skills.

Pakistan foreign minister was in Delhi on 26/11. India’s only ‘retribution’ was expelling him

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

How was the great Tanjore Renaissance born? When the British took over Maharaja Serfoji’s land

In 'Gods, Guns and Missionaries', Manu Pillai describes how the British Raj led to the birth of Hindu nationalism in India.

Israeli firms fortified Mumbai’s buildings after 26/11—metal gates, bollard systems

In 'After 26/11', Rhys Machold reveals how India mimicked the US' post-9/11 'homeland security' paradigm following the 2008 Mumbai attacks.

How Hind Pocket Books brought a ‘paperback revolution’ in Hindi publishing

In 'Everyday Reading', Akriti Mandhwani analyses the popularity of Hindi middlebrow literature among the North Indian middle-class.

Tech in US created a narrow elite of billionaires. India’s story is different

In 'Behold the Leviathan', Saurabh Mukherjea and Nandita Rajhansa trace the unusual and unexpected rise of the Indian economy.

JNU wasn’t part of Nehru’s vision. It was supposed to be called Raisina University

In ‘This Too Is India’, author Githa Hariharan speaks to historians, playwrights, translators and more about issues that plague India.

Read EM Forster’s ‘A Passage to India’ as a myth. Don’t look for historical accuracy

Orient BlackSwan's '100 Years of A Passage to India' discusses the novel's contexts, themes, and characters through a contemporary lens.

IB officers danced around a sadhu for years—they thought he was Bose in disguise

In 'The Bose Deception', Anuj Dhar and Chandrachur Ghose have analysed declassified files from UK, US, Taiwan, and India to unravel the mystery surrounding Subhas Chandra Bose's death.

Pakistan exploited India’s Article 370 fully. Fuelled Kashmiri Muslim resentment

Sreeram Chaulia’s ‘Friends: India's Closest Strategic Partners’ answers questions which are key to determining India’s future trajectory in international affairs.

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.