Identity Crisis
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I looked closely at two famous portraits of Tipu Sultan – and found that one isn’t actually of him
A history enthusiast goes beyond the captions at the museum at the 18th-century ruler’s summer palace in Srirangapatna.
Harshavardhana Yadumurthy
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‘We don’t want to be identified on the basis of our religion,’ say Assam’s indigenous Desi Muslims
As the state updates the National Register of Citizens, many fear that the term ‘Muslim’ has come to stand for ‘migrant’.
Arunabh Saikia
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Why birth certificates should stop specifying if it’s a boy or a girl
The majority of US states permits transgender people to change the sex marker on their birth certificate.
Heath Fogg Davis
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Vadodara: Residents of housing complex protest after Muslim woman allotted flat under CM scheme
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Has the Election Commission violated the Constitution?
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Arundhati Roy to be prosecuted under UAPA based on a complaint filed in 2010
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VV Ganeshanathan’s novel about the Sri Lankan civil war wins the 2024 Women’s Prize for Fiction
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From Mughal era to British rule, a new book shows how the weavers of Varanasi kept their art alive
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Why India should abandon the British financial year for one of its own
A large part of the country celebrates the new year in mid-April, when traders open new accounts books. Why can’t that be the start of India's financial year?
Garga Chatterjee
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Dronacharya's revenge: What the renaming of Gurgaon really signifies
Reflections on the guru in whose honour the Haryana government has rechristened the glass-and-chrome city.
Mrinal Pande
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Young British Muslims alienated by ‘us versus them’ rhetoric of counter-terrorism
Young British Muslims are embroiled in a conundrum of non-belonging.
Aminul Hoque, The Conversation
Video
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Watch: K-Pop group BTS members reunite as Jin finishes mandatory military service
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Watch: Kapil Dev, Sunil Gavaskar, Virender Sehwag, Mithali Raj, and others feature in T20 anthem
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Watch: Tamil rapper Paal Dabba’s song features in a new Apple Mac advertisement
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Caught on camera: Flames shoot out from Air Canada plane after take-off, no injuries reported
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Eco India: How is Mumbai's dengue surge linked to climate change?