His 40,000 songs became the background score of the lives of millions of listeners
02 October 2020With high literacy and internet reach, the southern states are driving demand for videos in regional languages
25 September 2020Her grave-thumping act at Jayalalithaa’s memorial on the Marina before she went to prison in 2017 may turn out to be just optics in the end
25 September 2020A fourth wave breaks over Indian coffee as world-class plantations and small roasters bring the joys of specialty coffee home
28 August 2020A genre-bender who made Hindustani classical music an accessible, emotional experience
21 August 2020Chess streaming goes mainstream in India with top-ranked players and Youtubers collaborating to create a new audience
24 July 2020Biophysicist Raghavan Varadarajan on the clinical trial results of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine
22 July 2020The deaths of a mobile shopowner and his son from alleged custodial torture have put Tamil Nadu on the boil over police brutality
27 June 2020India is home to two of the four species of horseshoe crabs, which are now in the spotlight for their role in discovering a possible vaccine for Covid-19
19 June 2020Brahma 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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