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
Trending
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‘Every time I stepped out, the camera was on’: Love and resilience in captivity with Gautam Navlakha
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‘Lathis, threats and gunshots’: How BJP wrested a narrow victory in UP
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Why the sanction to prosecute Arundhati Roy under UAPA is legally suspect
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Why Rakesh Sharma, the first Indian in space, rarely thinks about his time there
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A new book shows how the British Empire facilitated the Hajj pilgrimage of its Muslim subjects
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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: Diljit Dosanjh makes his US TV debut with a performance on Jimmy Fallon’s ‘The Tonight show’
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Watch: Scenes after goods train collides with Kanchanjunga Express in West Bengal
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Watch: This portrait of singer Taylor Swift was made using 10,000 tiny hand-sculpted cats
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‘You can laugh at God...that’s not blasphemy,’ says Pope Francis as he meets over 100 comedy artists
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Eco India: How conservation efforts are making the fires of the sacred Arunachala Hills go away