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Gandhi was fascinated by Tirukkural. He would learn Tamil for it

In 'Gandhi's Travels in Tamil Nadu', A Ramasamy explores how Gandhi fell to the lure of the Tamil language.

When Hyderabad Nizam brought women of his court out of purdah & they became freedom fighters

In 'Netaji's Comrade-in-Arms', Abid Hasan Safrani explores the central role played by the women of Hyderabad in the freedom movement.

Sidhu Moosewala was a shy boy who rarely talked – The aggression in his songs shocked everyone

In ‘Who Killed Moosewala’, award-winning journalist Jupinderjit Singh recounts the short but incredible life of Punjabi music sensation Sidhu Moosewala.

LSR was a labour of love for Lala Shri Ram. He even picked library books himself

In ‘Lala Shri Ram: The Man Who Saw Tomorrow’, Sonu Bhasin recounts the incredible life of India’s earliest — and biggest — industrialist.

‘No thought, no progress’— when libraries began dying in Kashmir, educated started reading less

In ‘Dessicated Land - An American in Kashmir’, journalist David Lepeska gathers his best work for Kashmir Observer to explore the reality of daily life in a war-torn state.

Homi Bhabha loved Delhi for its monuments. He thought PWD architects would ruin the city

Bakhtiar K Dadabhoy's full-fledged biography of Homi J. Bhabha provides a good vehicle for telling the story of Indian science and the foundations of India’s atomic energy programme.

The world is growing enough crops. But they’re being used for fuel, not food

In ‘The World in 2050’, Hamish McRae looks at the changing face of demography, finance, technology and the environment.

Reimagining the role of bonds and loans in financing a nature-positive future

In 'The Case for Nature', Siddarth Shrikanth says embracing regrowth might seem like the only option. But the 'market' is a social construct.

Indian elections have evolved a lot like arranged marriages. Technology is the disruptor

Technology has enabled voters today to share notes and build a consensus on who is ‘deserving’.

19th-century blue glaze pottery defines Jaipur’s art scene. This is how it’s made

Blue glaze pottery was promoted primarily under the aegis of the Jaipur School of Art, founded in 1866. It received a Geographical Indication, or GI tag, in 2008.

On Camera

DPDP Act will change how we interact with the internet. Get ready for the consent mails

India does not have a data protection regulator to make good on the DPDP Act’s promise and articulate clear future standards.

At Charcha 2025: Local entrepreneurship, not just big IT, will drive next wave of distributed AI work

While global corporations setting up GCCs in India continue to express confidence in availability of skilled AI engineers, the panel argued that India’s real challenge lies elsewhere.

US pilot says his team pulled out of Dubai Air Show after Tejas crash out of respect for IAF pilot

Taylor ‘Fema’ Hiester, commander of USAF F-16 Viper Demo Team, hit out at air show organisers for continuing with the show after Wing Commander Namansh Syal lost his life in the incident.

A tribute to Tejas. India’s delay culture is the real enemy in the skies

It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.