‘Khakee: The Bihar Chapter’ trailer: Neeraj Pandey’s crime series stars Karan Tacker, Avinash Tiwary
Also starring Ashutosh Rana, Jatin Sarna, Nikita Dutta, Ravi Kishan, Vinay Pathak and Anup Soni. Out on Netflix on November 25.

A new book recounts how Lal Bahadur Shastri improved third-class train travel as railway minister
How the ghats of Banaras became a defining image of the ancient city
The world of Lalla: A journey into the heart of the 14th-century Kashmiri mystic poetess
Sajni Mukherji (1945–2025): Beloved literature professor at Jadavpur University and a friend to all
In Uttar Pradesh, Adityanath struggles to contain groundswell of anger from OBC groups
‘Sikandar’ review: Film that champions organ donation is in dire need of a brain transplant
How Indian school teachers are trying to battle Bollywood’s Hindutva history deluge
‘Autumn always returned / to our garden’: Poems about the (extra)ordinary in tradition and modernity
For children: The tale of how young Hanuman learnt to make fire and also control it
‘A warning to all’: What Rajiv Gandhi wrote in the guestbook of a WWII memorial in Belarus