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V.S. Naipaul at his home near Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom, in October 2001 after it was announced that he had been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

A literary lion

With the passing away of Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul (1932-2018), the world of literature will be a duller place and inestimably poorer.

Replicas of history textbooks being burnt in protest against the BJP government’s attempts at rewriting history, in Mumbai in August 2017.

Manufacturing history

From rewriting history textbooks tailored to suit its political agenda to devaluing science and scientific temper, the BJP regime’s “reforms” in educ

Gopaldas Neeraj.

An unsung genius

Lyricist Gopaldas Neeraj was essentially a poet whose words built bridges between Hindi and Urdu to resonate with the common man.

A.J. Thomas. His translation of Perumpadavam Sreedharan’s Malayalam novel “Oru Sankeertanam Pole”, on the life of Doestoevsky, has hit the market.

An artist as an anarchist

Interview with A.J. Thomas, author, poet and translator.

Zafaryab Jilani (centre), All India Muslim Personal Law Board secretary, addresses a press conference after the executive committee meeting of the board in New Delhi on July 15.

Councils of contention

Following the All India Muslim Personal Law Board’s plans to open more Darul Qazas in the country, community leaders try to keep the lid on misconstr

Targeting symbols

The Taj Mahal faces a serious threat as the saffron brigade, in order to deflect attention from the failures of the BJP government, is out to annex or

Qasim, who was beaten badly by cow vigilantes, being dragged along a street in Hapur on June 18.

Striking fear

Cow vigilantes lynch one man and severely injure another in Hapur in Uttar Pradesh two days before Eid, giving rise to the suspicion that there is a

A Muslim voter at a polling station in Bengaluru on May 12.

Missing votes

The exclusion of a huge number of Muslims from the electoral rolls in several States is a cause for concern.

Muslim community members offer namaz with police protection in Gurugram on April 27.

Fear as the key

A series of attacks were made on mosques and Friday prayer congregations in open spaces in Haryana and Uttar Pradesh apparently to instil fear in the

Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the inauguration of HN Reliance Foundation Hospital in Mumbai on October 25, 2014. He claimed at the function that plastic surgery and genetic science were practised in ancient India.

Age of unreason

More and more BJP leaders cite Hindu myths as evidence of great scientific achievement in ancient India, and historians see this as part of their larg

A life in the shadows

In life as in death, tragedy stalked the actor Geeta Kapoor.

‘We must respect diversity’

Interview with Father Stanley Kozhichira.