Now that the unrest has subsided, it is imperative for Nepalis—young and old—to reckon with the contradictions emerging from ...

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Afsar Mohammad's book explores obscured histories of the Police Action, or Operation Polo. His focus is on how these ...

THE CENSUS TOWN OF SABOUR, on the outskirts of Bhagalpur, was first connected by rail to the colonial capital, Calcutta, in 1861. Five years later, the first train between Howrah and Delhi—the ...

SOMETIME IN THE MIDDLE OF 2018, a team from the Central Bureau of Investigation touched down at the airport near Port Louis, the picturesque capital of the Indian Ocean tax haven of Mauritius. It had ...

The horrific attack in Pahalgam, Kashmir—which claimed at least 28 lives and left dozens critically injured—deserves our full and unequivocal condemnation. The massacre of unarmed civilians in cold ...

LATE INTO THE NIGHT between 21 and 22 December 2023, five officers rushed into a room at the Echo Company Base of the 48 Rashtriya Rifles, at the small ridge of Dera Ki Gali. The base overlooks the ...

AROUND TEN EDITORS, their faces tense, gathered in a conference room in a swanky Noida office. Among them were the executive editor of CNN News18, the chief executive producer of IBN Network and the ...

AS THE JEEP he was in approached the Shilapani bridge, Jagadish Chandra would not have known he was being watched. It had been a trying and chaotic few weeks for him, but he had tried to right his ...

MILAN PATRA was 22 years old when he moved to Jharkhand, in around 2016. He hailed from a poor family in the Rai Paria village of Jhargram district, in the Jangalmahal region in West Bengal. Patra had ...

THE PHOTOJOURNALIST M PALANI KUMAR’S first visit to Ennore, in 2019, was an unforgettable experience. “I couldn’t help being awestruck seeing how Ennore is so different from Chennai, though it is an ...

THE DOGRA REGIMENTAL CENTRE in Faizabad Cantonment—now renamed Ayodhya Cantonment—is a few kilometres from where the Babri Masjid stood until a Hindu mob demolished it, in December 1992. In 2022, the ...