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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

Youth Congress, your foolish protest helped the Modi govt climb out of the AI summit hole

In tactical terms, the shirtless protest was worse than a self-goal. Suddenly, the fiascos of the AI Summit were forgotten, and the Youth Congress’s disruption became the issue.

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.

MoD, IAF agree on some exemptions to HAL for Tejas Mk1A, but no compromise on ‘must-have’ capabilities

IAF is fine with accepting the aircraft with 'must-haves', even if some other steps remain pending, which may take at least another year, it is learnt.

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.