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For every gaali Australians give us, respond with 3 gaalis—What Ravi Shastri told the boys

On the bus ride back to the hotel, MS slid into the seat next to Virat and said, ‘Look, Virat, you can chase down this total, you are that kind of a player.’

Govt has been counting India’s poor all wrong—it’s ad hoc, arbitrary

In 'An Alternative Development Agenda for India', Sanjay Kaul presents a transformative, sustainable developmental agenda for India, focusing on seven vital sectors and the systemic issues that plague them.

Marwaris replaced Bengalis as chief partners of British banks. Racism pushed them toward Gandhi

In 'Noncooperation in India', David Hardiman talks about how the Marwaris became the principle distributers of Manchester piece-goods in eastern India.

Yes Bank’s Rana Kapoor preferred Black Label, could drink half a bottle without getting drunk

Kapoor did not take kindly to employees quitting the bank. Once anyone expressed their intention to move on, Kapoor would ask that person to leave immediately.

When Bengalis and Bob Dylan staged ‘Concert for Bangladesh’ to highlight genocide

In 'India's Secret War', Ushinor Majumdar talks about how BSF soldiers were the first to experience the violence in Bengal.

‘Tigers die, rumors fly’ – when 5 mysterious tiger deaths took Nagarhole by storm

In 'Among Tigers', conservation zoologist K Ullas Karanth recounts his fierce efforts to recover wild tigers from the brink.

Amitabh, Salman were early movers on NFT rush, made crores

In 'Crypto Storm', Sundeep Khanna chronicles the story of the new-age currency that's gaining popularity among Indians.

Alzheimer was a doctor who discovered a ‘special illness’ in his 50-year-old German patient

In ‘My Father’s Brain’, Sandeep Jauhar recounts his parent’s experience with Alzheimer’s while delving into the history – and fallout – of the disease.

ATW Penn–British photographer who captured 19th-century South India in his portraits

ATW Penn lived and worked far from the urban centres of colonial rule and rarely engaged with surveyors or institutions.

Kutchi and Bania capital built Oman. They were the lifelines of its slave economy

In ‘Sovereigns of the Sea’, Seema Alavi gives a fascinating account of the Sultans of Oman, their thrilling lives and political circumstances in the 19th century.

On Camera

Dhankhar’s resignation: How Modi-Shah’s ‘capable’ BJP has served another strong message to RSS

One has to be incredibly credulous to buy BJP spin masters’ argument that the government got rid of Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar for harmonious relationship with the judiciary.

Unclaimed deposits worth Rs 67,000 crore lying in banks, 87% in public sector banks alone, Parliament told

SBI holds Rs 19,239 crore in unclaimed deposits, or 26% of the abandoned money in public banking system. PNB, Canara Bank follow.

India wanted a stable, prosperous Pakistan but our peace efforts were mistaken for weakness: Rajnath

Modi government had also made numerous efforts to establish peace with Pakistan but has now adopted a different path, militarily, to establish peace, adds defence minister.

Modi’s Bharat vs Indira’s India: 11-yr report card of politics, diplomacy, economy, nationalism

As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.