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Why India is the world’s most unequal rising power

In ‘The Unfinished Quest’, TV Paul offers a comprehensive understanding of the rising power phenomenon in the globalised yet changing world order.

Yeshwant Rao Holkar II spent $4 million on his palace. It was a fairy tale for the West

'The Last Maharaja of Indore' by Geraldine Lenain is a biography of Yeshwant Rao Holkar II, a prince torn between India and the West.

More healthcare professionals are turning to love and laughter to heal hearts

In 'Just One Heart', cardiologist Jonathan Fisher shares 'seven timeless traits of the heart' for holistic health and vitality. He combines Western science and Eastern wisdom.

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.

On Camera

Top 10 picks of Serendipity Art Festival 2025 by Rohit Chawla

Through film, textile, scent, sound, and gesture, spectators are invited to descend into an immersive environment where inherited knowledge seeps through material and form.

India’s merchandise exports to US rising month-on-month despite Trump tariffs, govt data shows

November exports to the US saw 10% growth from the previous month. Overall, in the first 8 months this fiscal, the merchandise exports to the US touched has touched $59bn.

US clears $686-mn package to breathe fresh life into Pakistani F-16s

Of the total package, $649 million will be utilised for additional hardware, software, and support services, and the remaining for Major Defence Equipment (MDE).

India’s top airline just handed sarkar the keys. That’s IndiGo’s real ‘crime’

Don’t blame misfortune. This is colossal incompetence and insensitivity. So bad, heads would have rolled even in the old PSU-era Indian Airlines and Air India.