In the bucolic remoteness of coastal Karnataka, affluence and heritage fail to hide the lure of radical Islam

In his latest outing, Karl Ove Knausgaard portrays himself as a teenager with literary ambition

Men, machines and the mind—how Narendra Modi ran the campaign of a lifetime to win India. Excerpts from a new book by Open Deputy Editor

Mohan Bhagwat’s criticism of Mother Teresa and the debate that followed bring out the twisted logic of Indian liberals

Can the banker turned politician be the moderniser of Indian Railways?

He was considered the ultimate political survivor. Now, Kerala’s 82-year-old finance minister and the country’s longest-serving MLA stands disgraced

Obama’s State of the Union address on 20 January reinforces his protectionist image. It would scare potential investors away from projects such as the Make in India initiative

The newly appointed vice-chairman of the NITI Aayog is a scholar with patriotic zeal

This descendant of the Darbhanga dynasty of Bihar believes that historians have ignored the good deeds of her ancestors. The 33-year-old says that family fortunes began to decline from the time of her grandfather Visheshwar Singh