Novelist, feminist and world revolutionary Agnes Smedley rejected “ordained social hierarchy” to follow her radical path to self-discovery. She consid

France has been a key contributor to Project Israel and its lethal, life-destroying remit.

A Persian manuscript in the British Library in London and other documents help correct an error in Tipu Sultan’s birthdate. The ensuing research also

Gujarat’s poor track record in environmental governance has pushed people to the wall, and they are now making their voices heard and using legal mean

The RBI’s proposal to loosen regulations for private lenders in the microfinance space will have disastrous consequences for the poor, especially wome

The hate speech at Jantar Mantar in Delhi is the latest in a string of attempts by right-wing organisations to stoke communal passions ahead of the Ut

Several Muslims framed under bogus terrorism charges struggle to lead a normal life after their acquittal and release. A new book in Hindi, a product

A parliamentary panel report exposes the government’s cluelessness on the extent of job losses caused by the pandemic and its inability to provide ade

The Congress under Rahul Gandhi seems to be focussed on countering the BJP in Jammu with a soft Hindutva line, sidestepping in the process crucial iss

The scale and spread of the pandemic have imposed unprecedented demands on modern science. But science being bound by the complex nature of reality an

The downward trajectory of the second wave has slowed down to imperceptible levels, a worrying trend in a context where the numbers are rising again a

The Trinamool Congress makes forays into Tripura to form key alliances as part of its plans to overthrow the BJP government and establish its base in

The IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report comes as an ominous reminder of how global warming will impact the world in the coming years and stresses the urgen

From the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report, it is clear that the outlook is grim for India on the climate change front. It can expect to experience errat

The IPCC report is an important wake-up call to the world to not get taken in by the claim that net-zero declarations of developed countries represent

Tariq Fancy, former chief investment officer of BlackRock Inc., says that the financial services industry that has promoted environmental, social and

Abhishek Saha’s book captures the lack of transparency in citizenship determination in Assam and exposes the deep inequality in the relationship betwe

The writer successfully captures the milieu of an upper middle-class Brahmin household with a keen eye for ethnographic detail.

A nonchalant depiction of the personal tragedies of people as they unfold in Delhi during the war years in the 1960s and 1970s, the Emergency and the

India stands out in the region as Afghanistan’s only neighbour to steadfastly refuse to do business with the Taliban, the new rulers in Kabul.

What has happened in Afghanistan can be traced to the United States’ ‘muscular’ foreign policy after the Cold War and the floundering global war on te

Interview with William Dalrymple, writer and historian.

The Taliban seizes power swiftly as the United States pulls out its troops after 20 years of misadventure, plunging Afghanistan into an atmosphere of

For a hundred years, the Afghan people have struggled between two visions of their society—one that saw the need to reform society through women’s ema