The many variations of the idea of Narendra Modi as seen from the ghats of Varanasi

Aditya Iyer finds out how the Gandhi mystique plays out on a campaign trail

Is there room for a neutral in the great cricketing debate of this World Cup year?

The spiritual is at its most spectacular when sadhus, seers, seekers, nirvana junkies and tourists of religious kitsch descend on Hinduism’s biggest carnival. Aditya Iyer goes to the Kumbh Mela in Prayagraj

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The future of Test cricket is in safer hands now

World Cups in cricket and rugby, a brand new version of a century-old tennis tournament, and Liverpool’s timely tryst with triumph—it promises to be a breakneck year for the sports fanatic

Kohli’s side creates history by becoming the first Indian team to win the opening Test of a series in Australia

CELESTIAL HEROISM IS a bestseller, unless it is badly made. In it merges great survivor dramas and the romance of breaching the boundaries of human…