Watch: ‘Sky Force’ is based on Indian attack on Pakistani air base Sargodha in 1965
Sandeep Kewlani and Abhishek Anil Kapur direct Akshay Kumar, Veer Pahariya, Sara Ali Khan and Nimrat Kaur. Out in cinemas on January 24.

A new book recounts how Lal Bahadur Shastri improved third-class train travel as railway minister
A woman’s place is in the kitchen – except if she’s a chef in the male-dominated culinary world
‘A warning to all’: What Rajiv Gandhi wrote in the guestbook of a WWII memorial in Belarus
How the ghats of Banaras became a defining image of the ancient city
‘Autumn always returned / to our garden’: Poems about the (extra)ordinary in tradition and modernity
Failing crop insurance proves costly for vulnerable Indian farmers
Sajni Mukherji (1945–2025): Beloved literature professor at Jadavpur University and a friend to all
How Indian school teachers are trying to battle Bollywood’s Hindutva history deluge
Uttarakhand renames Aurangzebpur as Shivaji Nagar, 16 other places citing ‘public sentiment’
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