“The burkha has undergone a change. Educated women have helped us turn it into a fashion accessory”
13 May 2011Khandu was the fifth Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh and leader of the Congress in the state
06 May 2011“After a while, you do feel restless. People who sit next to you are sometimes not fully aware of the cause they are protesting for or against”
21 April 2011“A delivery hit him straight in the eye. For the next year or two, his vision was... disturbed”
21 April 2011Intrigued by the question of how a limbless, rope-like animal can ‘fly’, Dr Jake Socha films snakes in mid-air motion for his lab. Sometimes, it all goes well; at others, it takes, a ball-point pen to rescue his staffers from fierce snakes
20 April 2011“I am scared that what I have done is a very bad act. God will punish me for it. It is a secret that will remain with me and my husband”
14 April 2011We know that Pandey was hospitalised after Dhoni and his boys bled blue for her
14 April 2011“I have to collect a minimum of Rs 35,000 a month in penalties. Targets often turn railway officials cruel”
06 April 2011In this case, ‘replica’ does not mean ‘fake’. It means they got a trophy, identical to the original
06 April 2011Brahma Chellaney is a geostrategist and the author of two award-winning books on water: Water, Peace, and War and Water: Asia’s New Battleground
MJ Akbar is the author of, among several titles, Tinderbox: The Past and Future of Pakistan. His latest book is Gandhi: A Life in Three Campaigns
TCA Raghavan is a former Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan and Singapore. His first book, Attendant Lords: Abdur Rahim and Bairam Khan: Courtiers and Poets in Mughal India, was awarded the Mohammad Habib Prize by the Indian History Congress. He is also the author of The People Next Door: The Curious History of India’s Relations with Pakistan and History Men: Jadunath Sarkar, G S Sardesai, Raghubir Sinh and Their Quest for India’s Past. His latest book is Circles of Freedom: Love, Friendship and Loyalty in the Indian National Struggle
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