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VP Menon forced Orissa, Chhattisgarh states into a merger. Sweetened the deal with privy purses

In 'Dethroned', John Zubrzycki explores how the Nehru govt arm-twisted princely states into merging with the Indian Union.

Before 2003 World Cup, Sahara wanted players to visit Siddhi Vinayak. Team India vetoed it

When the bus leaves for the airport, Sachin’s customary seat—front row, left side, window seat—is vacant. He is to be picked up on the way.

RSS praised Sanjay Gandhi. A Pune Marathi newspaper even brought out an edition for him

In 'How Prime Ministers Decide', Neerja Chowdhury talks about the implicit support that Indira Gandhi received from the RSS.

Pakistan was almost bankrupt post 1971 but Bhutto went hat in hand for his nuclear quest

In The Bomb, The Bank, The Mullah and The Poppies, Iqbal Chand Malhotra analyses how Pakistan innovatively used a dodgy bank, poppy cultivation & trade to fund its nuclear programme.

Islam forbade Muslims from wearing pure silk. So they donned the ‘lawful’ Mashru

Traditionally, the cloth is striped or patterned using the bandhani and ikat techniques with natural dyes.

MN Roy was to Marxism what Vivekananda was to Hinduism. He separated spirit and form

In ‘Indian Ideas of Freedom’, Dennis Dalton looks at how freedom was perceived by Indian thinkers like BR Ambedkar, Rabindranath Tagore and Gandhi.

Nehru once wandered around Delhi like a man in shock- horrors of Partition moved him

In ‘Shadows at Noon’, Joya Chatterji tells the subcontinent's story — from the British Raj through Independence and Partition to the forging of modern India, Pakistan and Bangladesh.

Stabbed 70 times in court — why the women who killed Akku Yadav were hailed as heroes

In ‘Disgrace: Global Reflections on Sexual Violence’, Joanna Bourke provides a global history of social violence from date rape in America to Caste-based violence in India.

How the RSS refurbishes a Krishna–Rukmini myth to weave Gujarat and the Northeast

The Greater India Experiment: Hindutva and the Northeast by Arkotong Longkumer has been published with permission from Navayana.

100 seconds to a decision — trust in senior advocates replaces hard facts, legal details

In ‘Court on Trial’, Aparna Chandra, Sital Kalantry & William HJ Hubbard analyses the Supreme Court using original empirical data and provide suggestions to improve its efficiency.

On Camera

Where is Skill India money going? It’s a Rs 48,000 crore mystery

All industries are still facing an acute shortage of skilled manpower despite thousands of crores spent on skilling schemes.

BJP MPs go full throttle against Trump even as govt hails enduring India-US ties amid tariff tension

New Delhi: While the Indian government has made a measured response to the 25 percent trade tariff imposed by Donald Trump, many in the BJP...

Trump feared India could arm BrahMos with nuclear warhead to target Pakistan in Op Sindoor—WSJ report

New Delhi: During Operation Sindoor, the United States which had received intelligence suggesting that India had launched BrahMos cruise missiles to strike targets inside...

Pakistan, Dhaka have played Washington well. Back home, Modi ecosystem has an inner conflict

To protect ourselves from Trumpian diplomacy, first we must introspect the bipolarity within our establishment discourse.