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Women hold other women back in the workplace. It’s called the queen bee syndrome

In 'Letters to Daughters of Tomorrow', Dr Shamoly Khera talks about the importance of cultivating the young women and girls of today into influential and impactful leaders of tomorrow.

Chauri Chaura freedom fighters’ families got a memorial in 1982—getting pension was much harder

In 'In Pursuit of Freedom: Travels Across Patriotic Lands', Pradeep Damodaran documents his travels across important locations in India, following the fault lines of freedom.

Habib Tanvir’s Charandas Chor was led by Dalit actors from Chhattisgarh—and they owned the play

Habib Tanvir and His Legacy in Theatre, edited by Anjum Katyal and Javed Malick, features essays exploring the lasting impact of the thespian's work, which blended tradition with modernity.

How John Edward Sache photographed 19th-century India

In 1865, John Edward Sache began a partnership with photographer WF Westfield to set up a photographic studio named Sache & Westfield at Waterloo Street in Calcutta, which became a member of the Bengal Photographic Society.

Vajpayee had one question after IC 814 crisis—Why wasn’t the plane grounded in Amritsar?

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

Shirdi’s Sai Baba practised wrestling. Then he lost a match and gave it up forever

In 'Shirdi Sai Baba', Chandra Bhanu Satpathy explores the fusion of Sufi and Bhakti traditions in Sai Baba's teachings.

Harappa’s 5 mega-urban sites were located on a grid, at calculated distances

In 'Discovering India Anew: Out of Africa to its Early History', Alan Machado (Prabhu) reconstructs the history of Indian peoples from its point of origin in Africa.

IC 814 was first India-Taliban contact. So New Delhi sent a young officer to test the waters

In 'An Indian Woman in Islamabad', Ruchi Ghanashyam narrates her experience in Pakistan during the IC 814 hijack.

Bengali bhadralok culture in Tripura — Tribal women wore saris to look ‘respectable’

In 'But I Am One of You', edited by Samrat Choudhury and Preeti Gill, Jamatia recalls Tripura of the 1980s—when tribal women started covering up in urban spaces.

Wokes are destroying beauty of language. Being blunt is better than inoffensive

In 'A Wonderland of Words' Shashi Tharoor demystifies punctuation, guides us through the arcane rules of spelling and grammar, and explains a wide array of essential components of the language.

On Camera

Indian police need urgent reforms. 2006 SC order yielded no results

In the face of judicial scrutiny, several states issued executive orders after SC’s 2006 verdict. But these enactments were cleverly designed to circumvent the implementation of judicial directions.

Market regulator SEBI clears Adani Group of impropriety alleged by Hindenburg Research

SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.

60 yrs on, veterans recall lessons from 1965 India-Pakistan war. ‘Equipment alone doesn’t win battles’

A common thread runs through the memories of soldiers of the 1965 war—ingenuity, courage and camaraderie that withstood an apparently technologically superior foe.

India doesn’t give walkovers to Pakistan in war. Here’s why it shouldn’t do it in cricket either

Many really smart people now share the position that playing cricket with Pakistan is politically, strategically and morally wrong. It is just a poor appreciation of competitive sport.