Turban-charged

Your inner Punjabi-ness lies deep within you, hardcoded in your DNA

Bong, with a gong

The Bengali love for all kinds of sound and food

God's own brandy

Here is what happens when a Malayali Man meets the bottle

Saving the earth, penny by penny

The Gujju guide to being economical and ecological

DIVIDED COLOURS OF UNITED INDIA

SCIENTISTS AND PHILOSOPHERS OF THE WORLD ARE STILL HOW THE WONDERING NUMEROUS CULTURES, COMMUNITIES, LANGUAGES AND CONTRADICTIONS OF INDIA CAN MERGE INTO ONE GIANT CONTRADICTION THAT IS OUR NATION

When the fire comes home

India is a land of all kinds of hereditary privilege

Learnings from Jeddah

Ukraine gradually shapes the peace it wants, similar to its careful and steady military counteroffensive regaining occupied territories

PAUSE AND EFFECT

Opposition fears that the government plans to delay national elections due later this year

It will be myopic of India to use only 75 years of its experience

A BANKER-turned-political thinker, Shaurya Doval has been part of concerted efforts in the past nine years to build an intellectual environment on nationalistic foundations

If there is anything that is safe in India, it is democracy

The term 'mother of democracy' is in fact a technical term that has been around for a long time

What evidence tells us

Ancient India had long and vibrant non-monarchical traditions. But they were very different from modern Indian democracy, which is based on principles of freedom and social and political equality

Bills and a coup

Scheduled tribes status to certain groups in Jammu and Kashmir invites criticism; move seen as BJP's electoral strategy

Messy, but not menacing

The uncharacteristic disorder in Gujarat BJP is noteworthy, but it is unlikely to affect it electorally

Dharmasthala's Manjusha Antique Museum: A Timeless Journey of Discovery and Preservation of heritage

Dharmasthala, a spiritual haven nestled in Coastal Karnataka, has beckoned pilgrims from across the nation for over eight centuries

IN A FIX

Ajit Pawar's entry has created a wave of resentment among local leaders of the BJP and the Shinde faction of the Sena

LOOK, DON'T TOUCH

Tamil Nadu BJP president K. Annamalai's fondness for bulls and goats is public knowledge

The sceptre of the sea lords

Who can forget Alec Guinness as Colonel John Nicholson in The Bridge on the River Kwai, going around with a twisted twig in his hand as if it were a cane of command? We see him swinging it with a swagger, using it as a pointer, holding it in his right hand and tapping its other end on his open left palm with a \"well, gent'men!\"

Realizing the ethos of our Constitution is the highest celebration of our Independence Day

India got Independence from colonial British rule in 1947 on August 15 and the Constitution of India was adopted on January 26, 1950

TENDERING A FRAGILE HEART BY IMPELLA

A SAVIOUR FOR HIGH RISK CHIP CASES

Kukis Have No Right To Demand Anything

INTERVIEW M. PRAMOT SINGH chief of Meitei Leepun

American chop suey

Coupling is a word usually associated with intimate relations or railway wagons and not with international relations: countries don’t like being joined at the hip, nor do they fancy being dragged around like mindless wagons in a train.

In a way, I was relieved to be in prison

And then I stepped into the main prison complex. Byculla Jail is a twofloor complex. It has two units—Circle-1 and Circle-2.

A mother's defence

Indrani Mukerjea's memoir tells her truth-unvarnished and unfiltered

Grace amidst scrutiny

No! I will not compare Janhvi Kapoor with her mother, the legendary Sridevi. Sri was Sri, unique in every way. Janhvi, at 26, is just about coming into her own as an actor, and the comparison seems redundant.

Picking the correct god

In the last column, I shared my growing unease about the Kanwar Yatra, and how it seems to be spiralling dangerously out of control in Haryana.

DRONE THEORY

Inside a drone expert's den, which has inflicted heavy loss on Russians

DESIS IN THE DONBAS

Meet the Indians who are fighting for Ukraine

SUNFLOWER FIELDS AND NO MAN'S LAND

AIR RAID SIRENS. DRONE BOMBS. ARTILLERY FIRING. LAND MINES. MISSILE STRIKES. DANGER STARES FROM ALL SIDES IN UKRAINE. THE WAR HAS DESTROYED MANY THINGS, BUT HAS NOT BROKEN THE COUNTRY'S INDOMITABLE SPIRIT. THE WEEK TRAVELS TO THE FRONTLINES AND EXPERIENCES THE WAR: \"A WAR WITH A DIFFERENCE.\"

It will take more than a year to rebuild the state

INTERVIEW Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu, chief minister, Himachal Pradesh

Delhi Services Bill is timely

The Arvind Kejriwal-led Delhi government’s arguments to any action taken by the Central government pertaining to the national capital have become dry as dust.