Hate speech rarely begins with violence. It often begins with words. A post is shared, a video goes viral, a community is described as a threat, and a familiar prejudice is...
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India observed Hindi Diwas on September 14, marking 77 years since the Constituent Assembly adopted Hindi in the Devanagari script as the Official Language of the Union in...
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We have a habit of freezing historical giants in amber. We turn them into statues, print their faces on currency, and speak of them in reverent, static tones. But when history...
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Politics has always involved some degree of performance. Politicians choose their words carefully, manage their public image and learn how to appear confident even when things are...
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There are books that you finish and put aside. Then there are books that keep turning over in your mind because they have left you with a question you hadn't expected. Margarita,...
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Congress leader Sonia Gandhi’s plan to publish her memoir in India through Penguin Random House India (PRHI) has reportedly fallen apart after disagreements over sections...
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Home is usually thought of as a place. Herta Müller’s Traveling on One Leg argues otherwise, and it does so through a woman who cannot settle into any country,...
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In an era dominated by quick-fix advice and preachy self-help literature, Anubha Agarwal offers a refreshing alternative route to self-reflection with her collection, Brewed...
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In Odisha’s Rayagada district, tribal communities are running a race against time to preserve their mother tongue, something no government scheme can fully protect. In...
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Historian D.N. Jha's The Myth of the Holy Cow remains one of the most contested works of Indian historical scholarship in recent decades. First published in 2001 under the...
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