Archer, who was palpably excited and pleased to be there said Nigeria was the only country he had ever taken a deep dive into ...

Mani Shankar Aiyar criticizes Narendra Modi as India's worst PM, warns against BJP's exclusionary agenda at Mysuru Literature ...

Amid an ongoing hunger strike by Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union (JNUSU) demanding the reinstatement of the JNU ...

Next week, it will be 50 years since the Emergency was proclaimed by Indira Gandhi. Like last year, when the new parliament was constituted, it is bound to gene ...

Sam Dalrymple's book, Shattered Lands, explores the impact of five major Partitions on modern Asia through oral histories and ...

Censorship was the primary instrument of the Emergency and it resulted in the atomizing of society and the creation of fear ...

The response from the right was swift and unsparing. Within hours, Mamdani — who was born in Uganda and raised in New York — ...

Language,” writes Sumanto, “is not static; it breathes, it grows, it adapts.” This is especially true of English, which has ...

On the reading list this week is a sweeping history of a young India and a portrait of one of the country’s first public ...

We marked the 50th anniversary of the Emergency a few days ago. But this other anniversary, the formation of the Bharatiya ...

A social media post pointing out this omission has gone viral in India, striking a raw national nerve. In a country with 22 ...

NEW DELHI, (IANS) – The origins of the fragile relationship between Jawaharlal Nehru’s sister, Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, and her niece, Indira Gandhi, which ended with the aunt becoming one of ...