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Monday, February 23, 2026
TopicNational Archives

Topic: National Archives

Gandhi’s horoscope to Mountbatten Partition papers: Race to digitise National Archives

Krishan Murari -
An estimated 15% (4.5 crore pages) of the archives are in fragile condition and have turned black due to moisture and fungus, making it necessary to digitise them.

Trump wants National Archives to keep his papers away from investigators – laws won’t allow

Shannon Bow O'Brien -
That battle is being fought by Trump against President Joe Biden and the House committee investigating the Jan 6 insurrection.

Liberal intellectuals lack popular political language against Hindutva. That’s just lazy

Hilal Ahmed -
I respond to four criticisms thrown at me. I am not defending my article. I want to expand the debate.

Real fight for National Archives should be about what it doesn’t contain, not the relocation

Rama Lakshmi -
Nehru's core template for recording history was unity, Modi’s is uniformity. But history, at best, is an 'argument'.

Emotion or evidence – liberals crying for National Archives just don’t get Hindutva history

Hilal Ahmed -
Nehruvian scholars must return to how Jawaharlal Nehru himself viewed history.

AAP’s Atishi has a surname again — and it’s not ‘Marlena’

ThePrint Team -
Pre-Truth — snappy, witty and significant snippets from the world of politics and government.

Govt reverses selection process for top positions at cultural institutions

Anubhuti Vishnoi -
The Modi government has begun to overturn the ambitious search cum selection process for chiefs of cultural institutions brought in by the UPA, and replace it with the usual government appointment system. ANUBHUTI VISHNOI

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Opinion

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

Stela Dey -
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.

Patel’s 1950 letter to Nehru: Find no legal power to deal with Press or men like Syama Prasad

Everyone’s ‘damaged’ in modern dating. Love will soon be called a mental illness

Economy

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

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

Defence

Suspected brake failure leads to Tejas accident after landing, airframe likely to be written off

Snehesh Alex Philip -
The IAF, so far, remains mum on this accident which has led to grounding of the fleet for safety checks.

National Interest

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

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

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