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From Courtesan to Commander: New Biography Restores Begam Hazrat Mahal to Her Rightful Place

The history of the Indian Uprising of 1857 has long been populated by a familiar cast of characters: the besieged British residents of Lucknow,...

How Bharatanatyam helped Padma Shri Ananda Shankar Jayant dance through cancer

Some memoirs tell us what happened to a person; others invite us to understand how that person found the strength to move forward. Dancing...

Enlightenment’s Dark Mirror: New Book Exposes the Racial Foundations of Western Universalism

New Delhi: The Enlightenment, that grand intellectual project of the eighteenth century, has long been celebrated as the philosophical...

Anatomy of survival: A public health physician’s unflinching account of India’s medical margins

New Delhi: One might believe that the appalling conditions documented by Friedrich Engels in nineteenth-century Manchester belong firmly to...

A new anthology opens the door to Urdu’s poetic soul

New Delhi: The journey that led to Alfaaz ki Mehfil began not in the musty archives of a university...

The Rising Cost of Schooling in Jammu

The recent protests in Jammu against exorbitant school fees, costly textbooks, and ever-changing uniforms have once again exposed a...

Indian Railways on Fast Track: Growth, Modernisation and Self-Reliance in FY 2025–26

Indian Railways’ performance in FY 2025–26 reflects not just institutional efficiency but a broader story of economic resilience, technological...

Tribal Affairs: Who Cares? Development on Paper, Deprivation on Ground

The latest financial data on tribal development schemes in Jammu and Kashmir lays bare a deeply troubling reality: a...