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Was there an ‘original meaning’ to Article 21? Supreme Court judgment holds the answer

In 'Liberty After Freedom', Rohan J. Alva explores the origins of what is considered the most important fundamental right in the Indian Constitution.

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.

On Camera

Don’t deride public sector. Evidence shows commercial banks in woeful state—Indira Gandhi

On 29 July 1969, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi delivered a speech in Lok Sabha on the nationalisation of 14 banks, saying the move was 'totally justified to ensure that hopes and aspirations of millions of our people are not sacrificed'.

Govt has reduced time taken to finalise GDP data by an entire year. Here’s inside story of how

This year, govt announced that 2nd and not 3rd revised estimates would be final. Here’s inside story on how this was achieved without compromising on quality of data.

Army chief Gen Pande gets extension, Govt seeks merit over mere seniority

Last time such an extension was granted was in the case of former Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw when he was Army chief for period of six months.

Abki baar 90 paar for Congress? Why even 30 more seats will ruffle BJP

Discussion about outcome of Lok Sabha polls continues to boil in cauldron of expectations only from BJP. Now reverse this equation, what if we asked about the performance of the 'loser'?