A GLISTENING GOLDEN EGG—the Hiranyagarbha, or primeval womb—leaps off the surface of the painting, its edges giving the impression of the egg’s shadow falling on the surface below it. It is levitating ...

THE DELHI OFFICE of the Archaeological Survey of India was thrown into a frenzy on 21 July 2023. A district court in Varanasi had ordered the director general of the ASI to put together a team to ...

24 NOVEMBER 2024 will be forever etched in Nazia’s memory. “I don’t know how he ended up at the mosque—whether he went on his own, or someone took him,” she told us, referring to her brother Ayan, who ...

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The Facebook page Jharkhand Chaupal was created on 15 November 2023. It soon appeared on Instagram, too, as well as operating a WhatsApp channel—all three platforms are owned by the company Meta.

ON 9 JANUARY 1915, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi—seen here at a reception in Karachi, the following year—returned to India after spending over two decades abroad. Gandhi had emigrated to the South ...

Conflict / Essay The day they killed Burhan: Two years on, a Kashmiri remembers the death of the militant leader Adil Langoo Politics / Commentary The BJP is not concerned with Kashmir, it is only ...

Film / Profile How suffering turned a college lad into a Tamil superstar Baradwaj Rangan ...

Law / Books How Rabindranath Tagore, Ram Gopal Varma and the Supreme Court of India hear the national anthem. Ananya Vajpeyi ...

Politics / Books Ita Mehrotra’s book portrays the Shaheen Bagh protest for the multitude of things it was Umar Khalid ...

Caste / News When Millennium-Plaque Awardee Appa Rao Podile Clashed With Dalit Students at the University of Hyderabad Praveen Donthi Caste / Commentary How caste shaped the experience of Rohith ...

Conflict / Reportage Hundreds of Kashmiri militants who left home as young men two decades ago have begun to return, middle-aged and disillusioned. What happens to them now? Mehboob Jeelani ...