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Mandir-Masjid: How competitive faith politics recasting Bengal's 2026 poll battleAs West Bengal gears up for its elections, a notable uptick in religious symbolism is evident. Political rallies are increasingly hosted at...
Elon Musk likes weird post saying Britishers never ruled India, gets an earful from IndiansElon Musk ignited controversy by endorsing a viral tweet that absurdly claimed India was never ruled by the British, using flawed logic abo...
He wrote dialogues for Shah Rukh Khan, Hrithik Roshan's films, but was later made to sell his house, brought to the footpathSagar Sarhadi, the unsung writer behind Yash Chopra's iconic romantic films like 'Kabhie Kabhie' and 'Chandni,' shaped Hindi cinema with hi...
How India’s partition forged a diaspora empireFollowing the bloody Partition of India in 1947, Hindu Sindhi merchants, including the author's family, scattered globally. Despite facing ...
NCERT new modules blame Congress for partition, say leaders 'underestimated Jinnah' and failed to foresee horrorsNew NCERT modules hold Congress partly responsible for India's Partition. The modules cite Jinnah's demands, Congress's acceptance, and Mou...
Mass Hindu migration from B'desh unlikely in face of current crisis: Nobel laureate Abhijit BanerjeeNobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee downplayed the likelihood of a fresh exodus of Hindus from Bangladesh to India. He argued that migration is...
X-rays locked in a Mumbai clinic could have averted PartitionPartition of India in 1947 caused the largest mass displacement in history, affecting 12 million people, leading to the deaths of up to 2 m...
LK Advani's journey from Ram Rath Yatra to Bharat Ratna: How the stalwart played key role in BJP's riseSenior BJP leader LK Advani is poised to be honoured with the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian award, according to an announcement by...
View: Let's see 15th August for what it was - a mark of enforced displacementWith you now fully aware as a consensual adult what you’re getting into, let me say how 15th August reminds me less of India becoming respo...
We know the difficulty India faced in vaccine exports: BangladeshBangladesh foreign minister AK Abdul Momen told ET that his country understands the difficulties faced by India during the second wave of C...
Future of living to include net-zero homes; post-pandemic buildings will be self-reliant with minimum resource consumptionIt’s important to understand that every form of construction or architecture has some impact on the environment.
Inside Sundarbans: Wildlife and climate displacements haunt partition refugeesCentenarian Mohindhoro Patra is a rare living witness to the making of 20th century settlements in the Sundarbans, the majority of which sp...
Security agencies still refuse to let you smile for your passportEarlier, people didn’t smile and show their teeth because their teeth were in no condition to be shown. From the 17th century it was no den...
New book explores contours of Bangla nationalism, legacyTitled 'The Colonel Who would not Repent: The Bangladesh War and its Unquiet Legacy' the book elaborateshow nation-states are rarely able t...
Why Gujarat has become politically monochrome is a mysteryPlurality flourished in post-colonial politics even if it fell short numerically of requisite critical mass, under the Westminster model of...
Akhilesh Yadav's outsourcing of riot relief work to religious outfits riskyThe govt's supply of ration, medicines and doctors, milk for babies, clothes and blankets for riot victims has been intermittent and hugely...
- Delhi turns 100: Transition of a chaotic, charismatic, restless & relentless metropolis
For a city Delhi's age, 100 years is a blip. But the century gone by mirrors all that India's capital stands for — a metropolis that is cha...