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Ideological changes in Kabul mattered little to India, till the Taliban came to power

In ‘The Comrades and the Mullahs’, Ananth Krishnan and Stanly Johny write that India’s late outreach to Taliban-ruled Afghanistan wasn’t just because of Modi’s politics.

When Rabindranath Tagore sent 3 men to study agriculture in US so they can build Sriniketan

In ‘History of Sriniketan’, Uma Das Gupta writes about Tagore’s rural reconstruction project, where scientists, economists, sociologists and technicians came together with villagers to build Sriniketan.

‘We have to kill more’: Umar Farooq Alvi wanted to engineer a bigger attack after Pulwama

In ‘As Far as the Saffron Fields', Danesh Rana meticulously pieces together a detailed account of the conspiracy behind the Pulwama attack.

Suicide set to become leading cause of death in Indian women. And NRCB won’t tell you that

In 'Life Interrupted', the authors go behind the scenes of the suicide crisis in India, showing that women form the bottom rung of it.

‘I opened a closed door’ — Fathima Beevi, India’s 1st woman judge in SC who remains an enigma

In 'Rising: 30 Women Who Changed India', Kiran Manral talks about how important Fathima Beevi was in India's feminist struggle.

Nangeli — the forgotten Dalit woman who stood up against Travancore’s ‘breast tax’

In 'Her Stories: Indian Women Down the Ages’, Deepti Priya Mehrotra recounts women from Indian history whose contributions have been all but forgotten.

For Yogi Adityanath’s views on secularism, read his essay on Nepal

In ‘Yogi Adityanath’, Sharat Pradhan and Atul Chandra write about the UP chief minister’s essay where he called 18 May 2006 — the day Nepal became a secular state — a ‘Black Day’.

We know very little of the Kushans— middlemen of silk road & empire that gave India Kanishka

In ‘The Stone Tower’, Riaz Dean blends aims to solve a 2,000-year-old riddle: Where was the Stone Tower, the lost landmark that represented the midpoint and thumping heart of the Silk Road?

How Krishnan Nair gave world ‘Made in India’ with ‘Bleeding Madras’ cotton, a US sensation

In 'Capture the Dream', Karkaria talks about Krishnan Nair—Leela hotels founder who became a sensation with his 'Bleeding Madras' fabric.

The Covid pallbearers — How Indians across religion and caste worked to give the dead dignity

In ‘To Hell and Back’, Barkha Dutt writes about how Hindu, Muslim, Sikh and Christian pallbearers were the handymen tasked to repair the broken bits of our humanity.

On Camera

BJP 2024 manifesto on investment, farm income, panchayati raj—but lack of clarity is worrying

Promises tend to become irrelevant if care is not taken to create necessary enabling conditions to make them feasible. This is even truer of electoral promises.

Economists vs statisticians — the battle being fought over the soul of India’s GDP data

Economists say there are weaknesses in India’s GDP data. But statisticians claim the accusations are based on flawed understanding, saying while GDP has problems, the economists are looking in the wrong places.

India, Oman hold 5th annual high-level meeting to boost maritime security

Both the governments expressed their commitment to strengthening their maritime cooperation to strengthen the maritime safety and security framework in the region.

These 6 states are key for Modi’s ‘400 paar’ target. They’re also where Opposition can stop him

While this contest looks so predictable in large swathes of our political landscape, it is also more keenly contested than 2019 in some states.