Podcast: Do India’s security agencies serve public interest or political agendas?
Josy Joseph, the author of ‘The Silent Coup: A History of India’s Deep State’ explains how the executive uses agencies to target adversaries.

How independent Bangladesh introduced made-in-India one taka notes to end use of Pakistani currency
‘Jarann’ review: Amruta Subhash is terrified, terrifying and terrific in horror thriller
‘To be an artist or a writer, you have to be in the business of serious noticing’: Amitava Kumar
Tragic idiom: Reading Banu Mushtaq in Kannada for the context and themes of her ‘rebellion’ stories
Slighted by Trump, India must rejig foreign policy paradigm
June global nonfiction: From 14th to 21st century, six new books tell humanity’s essential stories
Catfish species found in Ganga point to India’s freshwater fish diversity
‘What remains / are the poems, the songs / that mortality sings’: Griffin Poetry Prize winning poems
The Musk-Trump break-up isn’t about principle – it’s a spat about grabbing profits
Climate change is eroding safety nets, accelerating child marriage in South Asia