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Anil Dharker (1947-2021): Excerpts from Mumbai Notebook

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Bangladesh Satyagraha

Virendra Kapoor

A week-long satyagraha that the Jana Sangh, the BJP’s previous avatar, had launched in 1971 to demand official recognition for the yet-to-be-born Bangladesh

How Chingiz Aitmatov found solace, inspiration in India

Ajay Kamalakaran

The legendary author from Kyrgyzstan wrote both in Russian and his local language

What’s Normal?

Nandini Nair

The pandemic has forced us to reconsider the norm

Temporary Malayalis

Keerthik Sasidharan

They return home only to discover how foreign Kerala has become

Danger From Praise

Jayanta Ghosal

When Pakistan’s former High Commissioner to India Abdul Basit lauded Mamata Banerjee for her political acumen

The Ganguli Mahabharata

Bibek Debroy

Did the publisher enrich himself at the expense of the translator?

Road to Nowhere

Madhavankutty Pillai

The strike of Uber and Ola drivers leads again to a choosing between consumer and worker interest

How Morarji Desai outwitted Jagjivan Ram and Charan Singh

Ravi Visvesvaraya Sharada Prasad

Looking back at the intriguing political deliberations of late March 1977 that saw the rise of the first non-Congress government at the Centre

Truth and Faith

J Sai Deepak

The Places of Worship Act stands in the way of reclamation of religious sites of one community allegedly occupied by another. Its constitutional validity was waiting to be challenged