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Courting Bharat: Is Sonia Gandhi’s story more than a memoir?
Courting Bharat: Is Sonia Gandhi’s story more than a memoir?
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The debate is destined to rage on: whether Sonia Gandhi’s work is an honest reckoning with the past or an attempt to restore the standing of the Nehru-Gandhi family and Congress for what is still to f ...
Why We Still Need Nehru
12 min read
Remembering the moral architect of modern India on his birth anniversary
Where Breathing Is a Luxury: Brand India Is Gasping for Good Air
3 min read
We court investors, summits and sovereign funds. And then the visitor lands, steps out of the airport into a grey, acrid soup, and every brochure we have printed is quietly contradicted by his lungs. ...
The Globetrotter: A Defiant Iran Spreads the War
3 min read
Yash: The Rocking Ravana
2 min read
The unconventional movie star is tackling complex roles
Meet Vaibhav Sooryavanshi: The 15-year-old who became men’s T20 cricket’s youngest captain
3 min read
Vaibhav Sooryavanshi has added another record to an extraordinary rise, becoming the youngest captain in men’s T20 cricket at 15 years and 232 days. The Bihar teenager made history against Saurashtra ...
Russia’s Bears Doubled. Now Moscow Wants a 30% Cull. Will It Stop the Attacks?
8 min read
After 36 deaths, 87 attacks and more than 12,000 reports of bears approaching people in 2026, Russia has raised the maximum regional removal limit for brown bears to 30 per cent. Yet research links co ...
Cage the Elephant’s new song is a loud prayer for simplicity
2 min read
Even as the band sounds exhausted, Make It Easy is a defiant and danceable take on survival
In Nvidia story, follow the money, not the spy story, warn experts
4 min read
As US media label Alice Huang a “Chinese spy,” analysts such as Shaun Rein and independent journalists such as Ben Norton argue that profit, more than anything else, explains former Nvidia chief Jense ...