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There’s more to Assam than Ahoms. Ancient Kamarupa, Bengal challenge assumptions

The Mughal-Ahom wars were really the culmination of 1,000 years of geopolitical rivalry.

Khan sir, Ojha sir, Study IQ to NEXT IAS—an aggressive UPSC coaching market war is on

Around 11 lakh UPSC aspirants face a tough MCQ every year—Multiple Coaching Question.

What happened to ‘Hinduism is tolerant, secular’? Difficult question for an Indian today

Confronted with the atmosphere of divisiveness, people ask 'what must it be like to be a Muslim in today's India?' But we should also ask: 'what does it feel like to be a Hindu in today’s India?'

Gopal Kanda’s 2nd innings in Haryana is just taking off. He’s cosying up to Amit Shah, Khattar

Sirsa is celebrating the acquittal of MLA Gopal Goyal Kanda in connection with the 2012 suicide of air-hostess Geetika Sharma. And there are whispers of Kanda throwing his lot with the BJP.

India is putting all its eggs in the Sheikh Hasina basket. Why it’s a win-win situation

Whether or not this is the beginning of the de-dollarisation of the globe’s most popular currency is another debate. The rupee-rupee trade is good for Hasina and for India.

Dhaka’s elite Muslims party & pose as Barbie, Krishna. Double life in conservative Bangladesh

Dhaka streets have easy markers of religious identity that seem to snub out any attempt at cosmopolitanism. But the 'swinging set' is unaffected whether Sheikh Hasina returns to power.

What Modi’s guarantee to make India 3rd largest economy means for PM probables Yogi, Shah

Modi’s promise to fulfil everyone’s dreams in his third term is a message to his BJP colleagues not to think too much about his age or the unwritten retirement age of 75 years.

Jharkhand’s tribes have a message for Modi’s UCC. ‘Birth to death, everything different among us’

The effort to unite India, bring equity for women, and do away with outdated religious practices, is now also exposing real faultlines in the uniformity politics that’s underway.

Oppressed for centuries—Kashmir’s Shias get their due as Muharram procession restored

From the time of before Aurangzeb and EIC to the Dogras and now. Shias have been sidelined and systematically targeted. This procession is a step towards coexistence.

Parambrata Chatterjee is a ‘man written by a woman’. He is Bengali cinema’s Irrfan Khan

Parambrata avoids the commercial, and often toxic male hero. OTT offers him a chance to explore the other side of masculinity like Dr Sudip from Bulbul & Satyaki in Kahaani.

On Camera

Profit margins in lottery industry are tiny. Here’s how Future Gaming paid for its electoral bonds

Neither state govts nor companies earn large profits from lotteries. However, a look at the system shows there’s ample evidence of murky dealings and financial irregularities. 

Amid plans to lift AFSPA, Army starts training Jammu & Kashmir cops 

In an interview with Gulistan News this week, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said the government would leave law and order to J&K Police and slowly withdraw troops.

For BJP, Kejriwal is an idea whose time has come to be destroyed

The ‘idea’ Kejriwal's politics grew around was a no-holds-barred fight against corruption. That is the reason Modi govt has now tarred him and his entire party with the same paint.