Gandhi’s close allies Nehru and Patel had huge differences but they were not the opponents often made out to be

A literary festival on the palace grounds gives Thiruvananthapuram a new cultural elan

Tracing the taste of Lucknow to the ancestral history of a dutiful daughter

A land scam puts the head of the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church, India’s largest and oldest, in a bad spot. How long can he resist a fall from grace?

Smell the beetle and play

Voters maintain an enigmatic silence as the political endgame gets closer in Modi’s citadel

Of 80 Lok Sabha seats in UP, the SP and the BSP are likely to take 30 seats each and Congress 20

Mark Tully, who reported it for the world from ground zero, watched some leaders asking the police to stay away and Sangh volunteers breaching police cordons with ease. Then they began to climb up the domes of the mosque and started hacking away at the mortar

LK Advani was the original apostle of hardcore Hindutva and the man who mobilised India for the sake of Rama

Overseas studies show a low-calorie diet helps in reversing diabetes. India too needs to fund domestic research to combat its biggest health scourge

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…