Watch: ‘Maharashtra Shaheer’ profiles the folk artist behind ‘Jai Jai Maharashtra Mazha’
Ankush Chaudhari stars as Shahir Sable in Kedar Shinde’s Marathi biopic. Out in cinemas on April 28. The music is by Ajay-Atul.

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