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Paddy in Kashmir's killing fields

My job is to install an elected chief minister in Srinagar,” Paddy told us on an August evening in 1996.

Lessons from Bangladesh

The ‘Monsoon Revolution’ of August 5, 2024, was not about Bangladesh’s relations with India but about the relationship of Bangladesh with Bangladeshis.

How not to react to rape

The rape and murder of a doctor in Kolkata has been an inflection point for the country.

Yet another hit

A new docuseries on scriptwriters Salim-Javed reveals the untold story of their partnership

Down history lane

India's first sunken museum will transport you back to the Mughal era

Give audiences the freedom to choose

Exclusive: Actor Vikrant Massey on globalising Indian cinema

Maximum fashion

Designers Abu Jani & Sandeep Khosla crave the complex, the multi-layered and the divinely detailed

Spin it like Shiamak

The acknowledged guru of modern dance in India—choreographer Shiamak Davar—has made several celebrities dance to his tune over the years.

HEART OF KINDNESS

Dr Ramana Rao has been running a free Sunday clinic near Bengaluru for 51 years. He has treated almost 18 lakh patients, setting a benchmark in rural health care

IT WAS THE PERFECT FAREWELL

To have your jersey number retired from the sport is an honour few receive. P.R. Sreejesh is among those few.

ECONOMICS DOES NOT JUSTIFY CHINA'S INVESTMENT IN GWADAR; THERE IS A SECURITY DIMENSION

Captain Alok Bansal’s Gwadar: A Chinese Gibraltar is the result of 18 years of painstaking research.

Sub-classification is not in the interest of the SC community

THE SUPREME COURT’S judgment on sub-classification of scheduled castes and scheduled tribes has triggered an intense social and political debate.

Flawed script

Hema committee report highlights unscrupulous trends in Malayalam film industry, but lasting solutions are nowhere in sight

Wilting lotus?

In what is expected to be a direct BJP-Congress contest, the latter's fortunes seem to be on the rise

Little brother's handicap

Congress leaders believe that Uddhav Thackeray's impact is limited and they have to carry his party along

SUPPORTING VILLAGE DEFENCE COMMITTEES TO DETER TERRORISTS

ABOUT THREE DOZEN Pakistani terrorists entered the border areas of Samba, Kathua and Hiranagar through tunnels during the three-month-long Lok Sabha elections to carry out attacks in Jammu.

THE VALLEY OF HOPE

A high-stakes contest not just for the BJP and established regional parties, but also for the people

A VOTE AGAINST VIOLENCE

As Jammu and Kashmir prepares to hold its first assembly elections in a decade, building a cross-party consensus for ensuring peace and stability can be as radical a step as the voiding of Article 370 was five years ago

THE ELECTED GOVERNMENT WILL GET COMPLETE SUPPORT OF THE LG

When Sheikh Abdullah was sworn in as chief minister on July 9, 1977 after the National Conference won the assembly polls, it marked the end of the first spell of governor’s rule in Jammu and Kashmir.

The Word, A Spark And Nancy's Mission

America's most powerful woman says she is happy to relinquish that position in favour of Kamala Harris.

America Ready To Elect Kamala Harris Because She Is The Best

Nancy Pelosi opens her latest book, The Art of Power, describing what was perhaps the most traumatic day of her life, personally.

Peeks into peaks

A book on the Sherpa community throws light on the arduous and often heroic lives of the mountain climbers.

Show some muscle for Phogat

Um, are we timid again? There was a time, back in the day, when Indians were timid.

Ikigai in India

With their new book, Francesc Miralles and Hector Garcia look to India to find the meaning of life.

When tradition marries technology

In this digital age, where a tweet flutters away faster than a thought, the tradition of storytelling remains quintessential for our collective consciousness as well as our cultural connections.

MASTER OF LETTERS

A madrassa-going Muslim boy walks into a synagogue.... The story of how Thoufeek Zakriya became an acclaimed calligrapher and memorykeeper of Cochin Jews.

WE SHOULD NOT JUST CUT-PASTE WHAT ADVANCED ECONOMIES HAVE DONE

Krishnamurthy V. Subramanian has several titles you are free to choose from-the regular 'Mr' to 'Er' for his engineering degree from IIT Kanpur to 'Dr' for his doctorate in financial economics from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, or the one he seems to personally prefer, 'Prof' from his academic days at the Indian School of Business in Hyderabad. Subramanian, however, would brook no argument on India's prospects of becoming a global economic leader by 2047.

Rules for rule-makers

The Hindenburg allegations have put the spotlight on probity of regulators.

KNIVES ARE OUT

Even as Uddhav Thackeray sharpens his attack on the BJP and the government, his ally, the Congress, hopes it will be the single largest party post polls

HUMAN RIGHTS CHAMPION

Nancy Pelosi has consistently called out China's oppressive policies and advocated the rights of the Tibetan people