THE DELHI OFFICE of the Archaeological Survey of India was thrown into a frenzy on 21 July 2023. A district court in Varanasi had ordered the director general of the ASI to put together a team to ...

A GLISTENING GOLDEN EGG—the Hiranyagarbha, or primeval womb—leaps off the surface of the painting, its edges giving the impression of the egg’s shadow falling on the surface below it. It is levitating ...

24 NOVEMBER 2024 will be forever etched in Nazia’s memory. “I don’t know how he ended up at the mosque—whether he went on his own, or someone took him,” she told us, referring to her brother Ayan, who ...

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The Facebook page Jharkhand Chaupal was created on 15 November 2023. It soon appeared on Instagram, too, as well as operating a WhatsApp channel—all three platforms are owned by the company Meta.

ON 9 JANUARY 1915, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi—seen here at a reception in Karachi, the following year—returned to India after spending over two decades abroad. Gandhi had emigrated to the South ...

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Security / Interview Army HQ wanted me to withdraw from Wangdung in 1987 but I refused: Retired General VN Sharma Sushant Singh ...