Buddhist have been protesting at Bodh Gaya to repeal the Bodh Gaya Temple Act. The protest is not just a battle against joint Hindu control over their most revered site but is symbolic of a struggle ...

“GENTLEMEN, YOU CAN’T FIGHT in here. This is the War Room!” This is just one of the iconic lines for which the 1964 film Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb is fondly ...

“BECAUSE THIS WAS a setting/ Hence, forget about telling anybody/ What happened in custody.” This stanzaic ending repeats throughout Horror Saga, a prison memoir by Ehtesham Qutubuddin Siddiqui, ...

SOMETIME ON 7 MAY, Lieutenant General Rajiv Ghai, India’s director general of military operations, called his Pakistani counterpart, Major General Kashif Abdullah. At 1.05 am, India had launched ...

On a Sunday morning in the summer of 2024, Shivam Sharma, a 27-year-old Delhi resident, went with his friends to rent Yulu e-bikes at Connaught Place. “We were all really excited because none of us ...

IT WAS SOMETHING the family could never seemingly live down. Twelve years ago, Talib Lali—Dilshada’s husband and the brother of Amina Begum and Altaf—had been arrested. Investigative agencies claimed ...

A CEASEFIRE WAS DECLARED between India and Pakistan on 10 May. It came after a tense four days of military conflict—involving missile strikes, heavy shelling along the Line of Control and drone ...

ON 3 JUNE 1959, Lee Kuan Yew, the general secretary of the People’s Action Party, is congratulated by supporters after winning the first general election in Singapore following the institution of self ...

The mood for war drummed up rather quickly in the days after militants killed 26 people in Pahalgam. As India blamed Pakistan for the attack, and both governments undertook a slew of diplomatic ...

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