A new book on Indian business under the Mughal empire provides a timely reminder that the fate of nations is decided as much by accounts books as war and conquest ...

Despite their sizable population and history of political assertion, Dalits remain fragmented by sub-caste divisions and ...

What significance will remain of Netaji's 'Dilli Chalo' slogan if we erase Dilli itself? This striking question from ...

The trouble with the new-age spiritual packages that come in the guise of philosophy is that they efface the sophisticated ...

Anurag unpacks the bizarre world of “cringe” creators and the raw economics of virality. He writes of the relentless influencer hustle and the unsettling rise of fake followers, and mines through the ...

The parallels between the two architects of India’s unity feel inevitable. Like Patel, Amit Shah has wielded power with a focus on integration and internal security ...

October 31 marked the 150th birth anniversary of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel — the “Iron Man of India,” a towering figure in our freedom struggle and the architect of India’s unity. His ...

Ironically, a song that the Nobel laureate wrote in 1905 to call for the unity of Bengal amid the British move to partition ...

Following India's independence in 1947, a strong movement emerged nationwide demanding the creation of states based on linguistic identities. The administrative map left behind by the British failed ...

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade.

Rahul Bhattacharya’s ambitious new novel ‘Railsong’ tells the story of modern India through the history of its railways, and ...

History often rewards those who speak for the voiceless, even when their words are unwelcome.” Two hundred years after his ...