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Sunday, February 22, 2026
TopicAround town

Topic: around town

100 Ways to See India: Stats, Stories, and Surprises captures the country’s diversity

Rohit Saran has spent over three decades shaping data-driven storytelling across newsrooms, and since the 1990s, he has worked with statistics as well as visuals.

Two writers, one turbulent story—Memoirs of Rajendra Yadav and Mannu Bhandari launched in English

Speakers & critics at the India International Centre discussed the late writers’ turbulent partnership and the shifting landscape of Hindi literature.

The story of Ranthambore’s 50 iconic years and the ‘Tiger Man of India’

The exhibition and the book of the same name chronicle how Ranthambore went from the smallest of nine tiger reserves in 1976 to its present stately glory, among other achievements.

Mohan Rakesh and the idea of urban loneliness return to stage on his 101st anniversary

In Delhi’s India International Centre, the CD Deshmukh Auditorium was packed with professors, writers and students who came to experience the performative reading of his three books.

‘Literature fosters compassion,’ says Tharoor at Kerala Lit Fest curtain-raiser

The ninth edition of the festival is the biggest so far, with more than 250 sessions across seven tracks and more than 400 speakers.

On Camera

Nick Jonas wearing a mangalsutra is validation for many Indians. He’s our favourite jiju

Nick Jonas is not trying to modernise the mangalsutra, but his gesture shows that choices can be equal. If commitment must be flaunted, it need not be gendered.

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

In a first, Indian small arms maker to bid for UK Project Grayburn to replace British Army’s SA80 rifles

Bengaluru-based SSS Defence has made public its bid for a major foreign military contract, targeting UK’s ambitious SA80 successor programme with its home-tested weapons.

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.