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Steve Waugh, Slater came to Kolkata Test with whiskey, cigar. Laxman, Dravid killed their joy

In ‘Indian Summers’, Gideon Haigh captures a century of fierce competition between cricket superpowers Australia and India.

When Apple CEO Tim Cook apologised to China in Mandarin & flew to Beijing for a secret meeting

In 'Apple in China', Patrick McGee analyses how the American tech giant helped build China’s dominance in electronics—and passively cooperated with an authoritarian regime.

Strike that—how carrom became India’s favourite game at home

The Indian government officially recognises carrom as a sport, and offers grants and support to organise state and national-level competitions.

Did Pandavas become Jain monks? How the myth mutated between religions

In 'The Cave of Echoes', Wendy Doniger shows how the stories of mythology—whether of gods, sages, demons or humans—enable cultures to define themselves.

Should robots be given a ‘quasi-person’ status? It could open a ‘legal black hole’

In 'AI on Trial', Sujeet Kumar and Tuseef Alam explain the key principles of culpability assignment with AI and the legal hurdles involved.

When an RTI application with Air India revealed a govt double standard

In 'Journalism through RTI', Shyamlal Yadav unravels how news was collected through persistent efforts using RTI.

6 myths around EVM tampering

In 'An Undocumented Wonder', SY Quraishi answers the biggest questions about Indian elections, which have been called the 'biggest management event in the world'.

Guru Dutt chose Raj Khosla over his brother to direct CID. It became the biggest hit of 1956

In ‘Raj Khosla: The Authorized Biography’, Amborish Roy Choudhury, along with Anita Khosla and Uma Khosla Kapur, examines the work of a legendary Bollywood filmmaker.

Fidel Castro advised Sheikh Mujibur Rahman against promoting pro-Pakistan officers

In 'Mujib's Blunders', Manash Ghosh examines the blunders committed by Sheikh Mujibur Rahman after becoming the chief helmsman of Bangladesh.

When the Cabinet approved Emergency—after it had been proclaimed

‘Saving India from Indira’, memoirs of JP Goyal edited by Rama Goyal, gives a blow-by-blow account of the events leading up to the 1975 Emergency.

On Camera

On Arundhati Roy, mother-daughter conflicts, and the burden of being a ‘good mother’

When reading the book, one can see Roy’s mother as a 'fascist government' unto herself, the centre of her own cult. In Arundhati’s words, Mary Roy was ‘mother guru’.

A Rs 33,000 cr ‘banking fraud’: ED’s case against Arvind Dham, Amtek’s web of ‘500 shell companies’

ED has accused Amtek promoter Arvind Dham of controlling web of nearly 500 shell companies operating as a layered structure, with up to 15 levels of indirect ownership, to divert funds.

‘Loyal wingman’ to full ICBM triad & air defence, China’s show of power at Victory Day parade

China flaunted military might & modernisation as it displayed stealth drones, anti-satellite system & cyber warfare contingent during parade to mark victory over Japan in WWII.

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.