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India’s new search for Hindu warrior kings to celebrate. Vikramaditya, Suheldev to Agrasen

Many heroic Hindu rulers have had a rebirth of sorts. Folk tales are being dusted off and they’re now celebrated as cultural icons in Rajasthan, UP, MP, Maharashtra, Delhi, and Haryana.

Rebels of the Right. The radical Hindutva challenge to the Sangh is as old as RSS itself

As opposition to the RSS, Jana Sangh, and BJP’s hold on Hindutva grow louder, a look at how similar ideological battles have played out in the past within the Hindutva movement.

Dry Gujarat has a drunk driving problem. ‘How many more accidents will it take?’

Despite prohibition, Gujarat sees a steady rise in alcohol-fuelled crashes. Luxury SUVs are mowing down families while survivors are pushed into perpetual nightmares.

First chips & condoms, now domestic workers in 10 mins. Apps pull strings, consumers rule

Apps like Insta Help, Broomees, Snabbit, and Pronto promise instant domestic workers to clean, wash, mop, cook. They’re sanitising domestic work — uniformed, transactional, no bonds.

Blow to Yogi, Fadnavis, Gadkari—caste census will change criteria for PM Modi’s successor

Another reason cited by BJP's spin doctors is the Bihar Assembly election. It’s fallacious, too. Such a big decision is not taken in view of just one Assembly election.

Held in robbery bid, she was found to be trafficked, raped, pregnant at 16. At 19, she’ll be a paralegal

She was trafficked from Siliguri aged 11-12 yrs & forced into sex work. Trafficking or rape survivors often bury their worst memories & can feel favourably inclined to a kinder abuser.

From ‘destroyer of GC Hindus’ to ‘Maulana Modi’ jibes, BJP’s new opposition is arising from within

New Delhi: A day after the Pahalgam attack, the X account of Chhattisgarh unit of Bharatiya Janata Party posted: “Dharma poocha, jaati nahi…Yaad rakhenge...

‘World’s largest indigenous school’ in Odisha is a jail. ‘We’re all monkeys,’ says tribal student

The Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences is situated right next to the Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology where an alleged suicide of a student from Nepal and the mishandling of the resulting protest led to a diplomatic row.

Ending Indus treaty may hurt Pakistan’s poor, but it’ll also unite it with anti-India hatred

For obvious reasons, international support would be harder to recruit if India were seen as deliberately inflicting drought on millions in Pakistan.

Haryana has a bold, new film industry. It’s radical and not all jugaad

SUPVA is Haryana’s quietly radical experiment in cinema. Tucked away in Rohtak, it’s the only university in Asia offering full-time bachelor's degrees in core filmmaking disciplines.

On Camera

A stronger Iran has emerged from the rubble. US learned the lesson 40 days late

The US and Israel’s assassinations of Iranian leadership ended up bestowing martyrdom on those killed. Shias saw the deaths as a continuity of martyrdom from the Battle of Karbala.

Data centre gold rush risks blackouts, central electricity body warns states against tripping grids

India’s fast-growing data centre sector may strain state electricity networks; Central Electricity Authority has urged Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Tamil Nadu to boost capacity.

Theaterisation proposal to be shared with defence ministry in a week or so—CDS Gen Anil Chauhan

Theaterisation, which aims to divide the forces into three theatres with specific areas of responsibility, will become the single most far-reaching reform that the Indian military has witnessed since independence.

China insulated itself against energy shocks. India is ‘all talk, no walk’

China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.