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March 25, 2024

PM Modi could swing Tesla to India

On March 15, the government announced a new scheme to promote investment in EVs. Any company willing to invest $500 million in a new manufacturing facility that begins production in three years…
Badshah Khan is seen in this undated handout photograph released to Reuters February 3, 2010. Khan was so close to Mahatma Gandhi they shared reading glasses and his biographer joked about their shared vision, but the great Pashtun warrior of the non-violent struggle has been almost forgotten by his people. Now Canadian filmmaker Teri McLuhan hopes to drag the man dubbed "Frontier Gandhi", and his role in winning independence from British rule, back into the limelight.REUTERS/Peace on Earth Productions/Teri C. McLuhan

How the Indian subcontinent has lost its way

On the 30th death anniversary of Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan today, it is apt to remember him as the man who challenged the subcontinent’s pet stereotypes. He was a Pakhtun or Pathan…
January 23, 2018

From dissing Darwin to yogic farming

In 1954, India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru described big dams like the Bhakra Nangal project “the temples of modern India”. As Nehru made it clear, science and technology – manifested in…
January 23, 2018

Race matters

Poor Donald Trump. He was simply asking for information, and they’re all over him as if he were a racist thug. His choice of words was unfortunate, but the angels rejoice when…
January 23, 2018

Ministers above law

WHEN it comes to claiming exemption from accountability to the law, ‘holy men’ do not lag far behind ministers and celebrities. Yogi Adityanath feels entitled to double protection. Besides being head of…
January 21, 2018

Stateless in Assam

On the second day of January this year, hidden in the midst of the extensive coverage about the first draft of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) being made public, there was…
January 21, 2018

Clairvoyants and Imran Khan

After having his reputation dragged around by TV channels discussing his third marriage to a “spiritual” lady of Pakpattan in Punjab, Imran Khan, leader of the second-largest political party in Pakistan, Pakistan…
January 21, 2018

A deeply thought-provoking dystopian satire

A new book from an acclaimed author with an illustrious political lineage is much anticipated and Nayantara Sehgal doesn’t disappoint. Laced with irony, the title of her new book, When the Moon…
January 21, 2018

NON-FICTION: WHAT LENIN DID AND WHY

2017 marked 100 years of the Russian Revolution and a considerable number of books were rushed out to coincide with the centenary; some in revisionist mode, others celebratory. Among these, Tariq Ali’s…
January 21, 2018

The unhealthy state of Health

Good health is the principal capital asset of any and every person. Take care of our body, so goes the saying, as it is the only place to live. But it is…
January 20, 2018
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