If 30 years of foreign policy could be rewound, Pakistan’s ‘jihad factory’ would not exist, says Alice Albinia

With her, no outcome could be final. The story of a Bangladeshi girl who battles familial mores to follow her heart.

The people of a remote village in Tamil Nadu live in dread. The massive domes of two nuclear plants and the dubious promise of six more promise disruption, dislocation and worse.

How the tiniest marine organisms can stir up the oceans

A lyrical exploration of remembrances of things past, of the sunny innocence of childhood, of the mellow contours of pain from an undefined loss...

Ramachandra Guha in conversation with Rahul Jayaram on the turf war over the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library in Delhi, which he believes is going down the drain

A small green beetle may have some interesting lessons to teach scientists about optics and liquid crystals

A look at the benighted fate of migrant labour who fall so easily for the lure of a better paying foreign job.

New research shows that when it comes to DNA, every cell in the body is essentially identical to every other cell

From the relative sanctuary of our daily lives, this would seem like war. But for the average Kashmiri, it is just another day

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…