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President Barack Obama at this Republic Day Parade is all about Modi’s mission on his own mythology—and his India

Suspicious couples and the booming cottage industry of peace-of-mind tests

The Murty Classical Library of India is a love marriage of delicious elegance between new money and old glory

Lame duck President meets rampant Prime Minister

The online responses of Indian Muslims to the Paris massacre should serve as a wake-up call

Six new Indian crime writers to read, if you want to get your hands dirty

Obama’s State of the Union address on 20 January reinforces his protectionist image. It would scare potential investors away from projects such as the Make in India initiative

A section of the political class may not accept it but mounting radical resentment within the Indian Muslim community is a reality

Nimrat Kaur, now playing an ISI agent in Homeland, finds stardom on American TV

The Censor Board is extra constitutional junk. Time to abolish it

With the uncertainty surrounding jallikattu, a bull-baiting sport associated with harvest rituals that was banned by the Supreme Court last year, sentiments run high in rural Tamil Nadu

Even as we rage against Perumal Murugan’s forced exile from literature, a generation of Tamil writers is pausing mid-thought and self-censoring its work in what is a clear victory for fundamentalists