The newly married women’s fight for toilets has made Swachh Bharat a movement in rural India

Can Ambedkar’s legacy be reduced to a political totem?

The fall of an institution where political patronage and academic research go hand in hand

Artist couple Rehana and Shakil Saigol trace their roots to Kolkata, a city they say nourished their imagination

A new bill threatens to become the straw that will break the back of Rajasthan’s camels, turning them into zoo animals. Could their milk save them?

The dating of the Ramayana and Mahabharata is a project that attracts intense debate as passionate pursuers apply new techniques to look for answers

Anuja Chauhan’s new novel is about a scheming Delhi family and their ancestral property

Could a village in Haryana have been the ancient civilisation’s very first settlement?

One of Bollywood’s most inventive directors, Dibakar Banerjee, on his aversion to being typecast and why he believes dissent is the best form of defence

New universities revive the trend

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