Podcast: Peng Shuai and China’s practice of disappearing citizens who don’t conform
The tennis star had vanished from public life after she accused a top Chinese official of sexual assault. Her reappearance, critics say, has been stage managed.

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A new book examines whether Hindu nationalists supported the Zionist project to occupy Palestine
How Hindi emerged as the lingua franca of the ‘Hindi Heartland’ at the cost of other languages
First-Class Railway Curry, Quick Bengali Murgir Korma: Two monsoon recipes by chef Asma Khan
India claims to be a leader of the Global South – but its strategic silences subvert that assertion
How the river flows: There is another way the Indus Water Treaty could help defeat terror
Russia’s pro-natalist push: Paying pregnant schoolgirls to have babies
Snow leopards thriving in Ladakh Himalayan ranges, but challenges loom
Assam: Rahul Gandhi promises to send Himanta Biswa Sarma to jail if Congress comes to power
How a landmark Kerala High Court judgment recognised existence of transgender families