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Pahalgam attack: A simple guide to the Kashmir conflict

The roots of this decades-long conflict between India and Pakistan go back to the turbulent partition of 1947.

Al Jazeera · May 2, 2025

Modi accused of ‘intimidation’ after top Indian opposition leaders named in money laundering case

Financial crime agency names Rahul Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi in case related to newspaper linked to their Congress party

The Independent UK · Apr 16, 2025

Birth of India: ‘biggest experiment’ with democracy was a huge gamble. Happily the people have made it work – here’s how

The birth of Indian democracy is the stuff of legend. It was a moment of such staggering idealism and exuberance, a leap of faith so audacious, that the famous jurist and scholar Kenneth Wheare termed it “the biggest liberal experiment in democratic government” that the world had seen.

The Conversation · Apr 15, 2025

India’s history of providing refuge – and why Sheikh Hasina poses a unique challenge

On August 5, Sheikh Hasina fled Dhaka and landed at Ghaziabad’s Hindon airbase after her ouster as prime minister of Bangladesh. Dramatic as it was, she was not the first high-profile political leader from India’s neighbourhood to seek safe haven. In 1959, India suffered consequences with China over the arrival…

Newslaundry · Nov 28, 2024

Pierre Jeanneret’s Chandigarh furniture meets South Asian diasporic art in an unusual London exhibition

Rajan Bijlani curates a show combining Pierre Jeanneret furniture for the Indian city of Chandigarh with works for sale by six artists of South Asian origin – in his own London townhouse

Wallpaper · Oct 16, 2024

Writing letters to children: How this simple parental habit can be life changing

In this fast-moving technology world dominated by texting and instant messages, it seems that people have lost the art of penning down letters. It is one of the best mediums through which you can spend quality time with your child and create long-lasting bonds, pass on values, and preserve memories…

The Times of India · Oct 2, 2024

Heirs, cartons and access: The journey of Nehru’s letters through a legal tangle

A Gujarat-based historian has recently written a letter to Congress MP Sonia Gandhi, seeking the return of Jawaharlal Nehru’s private documents either to the Prime Minister Museum and Library, which was renamed as the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library in August last year, or give him access to them.

Newslaundry · Sep 27, 2024

Nehru’s First Recruits: A remarkable retelling of an epoch – with one glaring gap

The advent of the post Second World War international order – and the new equations that emerged with it – coincided with the early years of postcolonial India. Perhaps the clearest reflection of the significance that newly independent India placed in navigating external challenges and pursuing national interests, while engaging…

Newslaundry · Sep 10, 2024

Independence Day 2024: 10 rare pictures from India's struggle for freedom

India's independence day is not just any ordinary day. It is the day we pay homage to decades of sacrifice, it is the day we thank the brave souls who laid their lives for the motherland, it is the day we remember the ones who gave us free land to…

The Times of India · Aug 14, 2024

Sudhanshu Trivedi asked about fake news in RS. Was it an investment in irony?

There seemed to be an investment in irony in the form of an unstarred question in Rajya Sabha last month.

Newslaundry · Aug 5, 2024