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Avik Chanda
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‘Economic policies are seldom based on past effectiveness or endorsements alone’: Ashok Lahiri
An interview with economist-politician Ashok Lahiri on how economics and politics work together to shape India’s future.
Avik Chanda
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Revisiting Rana Safvi’s Delhi trilogy shows how her books capture long-term history, not moments
From the first city of Delhi to the living city, Safvi maps changes across centuries with depth and precision.
Avik Chanda
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‘For a fuller understanding of modern India, we must also investigate the princely states’
An interview with Manu Pillai, whose latest book addresses the role played by the princely states during the freedom movement.
Avik Chanda
Trending
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Mauritian Bhojpuri is being dressed in Hindu nationalist robes – and I’m in mourning
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Young professionals are fleeing crisis-hit Pakistan in hope of a better future
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Toddler says she didn’t like ‘Pathaan’, Shah Rukh Khan posts video with a promise to work harder
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Watch: ‘3 Idiots’ stars Aamir Khan, Sharman Joshi, R Madhavan comically reunite to promote new film
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‘Class’ review: An immersive and revealing show about privilege
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Re-reading ‘Empress’: As a feminist historian, Ruby Lal offers a scholarly look at Nur Jahan’s life
Yet, is the feminist mode the only way of studying this text?
Avik Chanda
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This book breaks new ground in history by bringing together Mughal politics and Sufi spiritualism
Muzaffar Alam’s ‘The Mughals and the Sufis’ is a remarkable and original work of scholarship.
Avik Chanda
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‘The Sanskrit texts divided horses into castes, just as they divided people’: Wendy Doniger
An interview with the author of ‘Winged Stallions and Wicked Mares’.
Avik Chanda
Video
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Toddler says she didn’t like ‘Pathaan’, Shah Rukh Khan posts video with a promise to work harder
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Watch: TV host Ellen DeGeneres surprised with marriage vow renewal ceremony by wife Portia de Rossi
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Watch: This dog was taking a ride on the roof of a car in Bengaluru
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Eco India: Why are sparrows continuing to disappear from Indian cities?
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Watch: Adele moved to tears as fan shows up with picture of his late wife to her Las Vegas show
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Interview: Dipesh Chakrabarty on how climate change upends long-standing ideas of modernity
‘Questions arise when we assume that technology can keep solving problems regardless of the nature of the problem.’
Avik Chanda
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‘I love English, French. But I chose Bengali as a creative medium’: Trilingual writer Chinmoy Guha
An interview with Sahitya Akademi award winner Chinmoy Guha.
Avik Chanda
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Kunal Basu’s latest novel in English depicts a search for motherhood as much as one for a mother
In ‘Sarojini’s Mother’, an adopted daughter returns to Kolkata in search of her biological mother.
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The Reel
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Start the week with a film: Horses and a quietly thumping heart in ‘The Rider’
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‘Class’ review: An immersive and revealing show about privilege
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‘Jehanabad – Of Love & War’ review: A heavily spiced account of an audacious jailbreak
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‘Almost Pyaar with DJ Mohabbat’ review: A throbbing musical about forbidden passion
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‘Faraaz’ review: A shallow exploration of 2016 Dhaka terror attack