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Mystic Mountain

With more than 800 Jain temples, the Shatrunjaya hill in Palitana is considered the world’s largest such complex at its height. Priyanka Dalal goes on an ascent of faith

Panorama of the Past

New Mexico was the closest DH Lawrence came to a religious experience. Tishani Doshi says it is still there for the taking in Taos Valley where language and landscape reflect each other

The Emperor’s Redoubt

Raigad Fort, once an impregnable capital, has only the ruins of its grandeur left. Lhendup G Bhutia discovers that it is still a pilgrimage spot for those who venerate Shivaji

The Afterlife of a Maoist

Saketh Rajan is a case study in how activists, academics and politicians were complicit in glorifying a violent insurgency

From Bhopalpatnam To Boter

Maoism finds itself on the verge of extinction after a series of strategic mistakes over more than a quarter century

The Slayer of Maoism

Amit Shah’s feat of defeating the six-decade-long guerrilla movement makes him the natural inheritor of the first home minister’s legacy

The Death of a Delusion

The Maoist project has now failed twice since it began in Naxalbari in 1967

The Fifth Column

One of the biggest crackdowns on Pakistan’s spy network in India reveals how the ISI has updated its entrapment tools for the digital age

Pakistan: State of Doom

India has hastened an unravelling that is of Pakistan’s own making

The Thousand-Year Jihad

Beware: Terror is what defines Pakistan

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