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Rajesh Khanna was a mega star with 15 consecutive hits. Then Salim-Javed scripted his downfall

In 'The Dark Star', historian and bestselling author Gautam Chintamani explores the loneliness behind Rajesh Khanna's stardom.

Bollywood villain Pran sold wife’s bangles to survive in Bombay—then landed 4 films in 3 days

Gulshan Grover, Danny Denzongpa to Pran, Roshmila Bhattacharya's 'Bad Men' reveals the human beings behind Bollywood's most iconic villains.

An Army officer wrote 97 pages on ‘population jihad’ in 1907-‘we’re waiting for our extinction’

In 'Love Jihad and Other Fictions', Sreenivasan Jain, Mariyam Alavi and Supriya Sharma counter viral falsehoods with simple facts.

Gossiping is your Aadhaar card for acceptance in circles you covet. It’s a social rite of passage

Jairam N Menon's 'Masala Chai for the Soul' is not the sattvik cousin of the hallowed 'Chicken Soup' and does not contain any amino acids to nurse your soul back to health.

Why did Jinnah fade out of Congress? Gandhi reduced him to just a ‘Muslim’

In 'What if There Was No Congress?', Priyam Gandhi-Mody revists the key events that shaped India's political history.

For the West, the Indian village was ‘ever-present & never-changing’ – even Karl Marx wrote so

In ‘The Indian Village’, sociologist Surinder S. Jodhka examines the changing nature of the country’s rural landscape.

Indira Gandhi, Ronald Reagan exchanged polite letters for show. Neither’s heart was in it

In 'Centres of Power', Chinmaya R. Gharekhan recalls his years working in former Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's office.

Even with all the nobility at her feet, Begum Akhtar desired what her mother never had – respect

In Courting Hindustan, Madhur Gupta recounts the remarkable lives of India’s most intriguing female entertainers.

When Mughals stopped East India Company’s Chittagong invasion, siege on Bombay

In the ‘Colonial Subjugation of India’, historian Amar Farooqui tells the story of the British empire’s rise and the instruments of coercion to rule over it.

Indian civil servants must shed ‘distanced and aloof’ image—the British Raj is behind us

In ‘Transforming the Steel Frame’, Vinod Rai examines the roles and responsibilities of Indian bureaucracy in modern times.

On Camera

Bank nationalisation will be a blow to India’s mixed economy, lead to totalitarianism: Phiroze Shroff

If banks were to be nationalised, politicians would start interfering with bank officials and put undue pressure on them, Prof Shroff wrote in 1963.

Go Swadeshi—RSS affiliate SJM calls for boycott of US firms Amazon, Walmart after Trump’s tariff hike

New Delhi: The day after the US imposed a 50 percent trade tariff on India, RSS affiliate Swadeshi Jagran Manch (SJM) has made an...

Shadow war over India’s defence procurement on social media raises concerns of dodgy & undue influence

One such website has drawn particular scrutiny for spreading fake stories that have upset not only the Indian but also foreign defence firms by falsely attributing misinformation.

Modi’s ready to risk it all for farmers. Farm reform can answer Trump with new Green Revolution

Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.