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How Indian bookstores are luring young readers back with stories, events and screen-free spaces

November 30, 2025 10:22 am

The ‘de-screening’ impulse is fostering a growth in India's children's books market. Parents and bookstores are doing their bit to raise the next generation of readers

From my kitchen: Meera Muzaffar Ali, architect, fashion designer, craft and culinary revivalist, on the best meal of her life -- Kotawara family's Dum Pukht Mutton

November 15, 2025 2:41 pm

Dum Pukht means “to breathe and cook”, and its story begins in 18th-century Awadh, under the reign of Nawab Asaf-ud-Daula

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After its sweep, 10 things to do for the new NDA government in Bihar

November 15, 2025 8:16 am

The symmetry of governance between Prime Minister Modi’s leadership and Nitish’s trust, called “NiMo,” holds great potential

Festive Frames: Raja Ravi Varma’s 'Lakshmi' and other visual depictions of Diwali

October 28, 2025 11:19 am

A look at how art works captured the spirit of the festival of lights

We are as strong as the forest that surrounds us

October 28, 2025 11:19 am

My hope and faith is that if we have to bring about a social change, then the future of mental health is not in the clinics but in the schools, colleges and in the community

Karnataka HC ruling on X vs Sahyog - takeaways for social media

In Karnataka HC’s rejection of X plea against Sahyog, 3 red lines for social media

September 26, 2025 6:01 am

The High Court called the Sahyog portal 'an instrument of public good,' which 'stands as a beacon of cooperation' between citizens and social media intermediaries, through which the State endeavours to combat the growing menace of cybercrime.

US courts might well upset the best laid plans of mice and men. Continued uncertainty is the only certainty.

Uncertainty around US tariffs will not be over after August 1, even with signed trade deals

July 28, 2025 11:07 am

There is an overlooked event that could easily make these deals moot and plunge the tariff discussions into more uncertainty.

Dead women, heroic men- From Sikandar to Mohabbatein, why are dead wives and girlfriends a much-used narrative device?

April 15, 2025 1:00 pm

Dead women's club: There are different categories of how a woman can be bumped off to create maximum impact in the life of the only character who truly matters, the hero.

The Identity Project, Rahul Bhatia. Westland. 464 pages, Rs 899. (Source: Amazon.in)

The Identity Project blends history and ethnography to lay out contemporary India’s poignant story

December 07, 2024 4:42 pm

Democracy is being unmade, the writer shows, as people’s acrimony and the state’s discriminatory programmes feed off each other

Immigration is the number one issue in the 2024 US Presidential election

The long history of immigration in the US — Part 2

October 18, 2024 10:31 pm

Since 1996, American immigration policy has been dominated by the discourse of security, promoting waves of deportations, However, who qualifies as a security risk has less to do with statistics and more to do with political narratives with non-white groups consistently being seen as 'less American' than the white foreign born population.