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It’s the largest political party in the world. It has also been ruling the world’s largest democracy for over a decade. That speaks of a rare measure of stability—the durable kind enjoyed by entities that have pretty much become the establishment. In

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↘ The timing of the RSS’s conditional nod for a national caste census—at its Aug. 31Sept. 2 baithak—has put the BJP in a spot. It has so far advocated against the idea ↘ RSS leaders are of the opinion that the UCC, amendments to Waqf Board Properties

TOYS ARE CRUCIAL FOR Kiran Bala, 38, an assistant professor at the Delhi School of Economics, to keep her three children—an eight-year-old daughter and 18-month-old twins—occupied. “As an academic who has to juggle parenting with teaching and self-st

For 67-year-old Faizan Khan, who used to work as a plumber in Mumbai suburb Thane, swallowing multiple pills for the treatment of tuberculosis was a living nightmare. But a friend of his had developed drug-resistant or DR-TB and succumbed to it after

It is tough to quantify and qualify Kamal Haasan’s career. He is widely regarded as one of the best actors to have ever worked in Indian cinema, but he is much more than that. By his own admission, he is a reluctant actor. He willed himself into thea

Recently, somebody asked Abhishek Banerjee how it was going being an “outsider” in the film industry. The joke referred to the unending discourse over outsiders struggling in nepotistic Bollywood. “I told him this outsider has two films coming out on

Indian-American artist Joya Mukerjee Logue’s paintings are as much about community, as they are about the memory of women nurturing these communities, painted in her gentle whites and creams. In her debut show in India, Those who walk before me, whic

If imagination is the mirage of the aspirational, change is the grandest mirage of all. For it allows us to rewrite the narrative, creating new occasions to experiment with ritual and engage with the here and now. In the 19 years since we launched Sp

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At the moment the market for modern Indian art is very strong, with many new records being set at public auctions. There are a number of new collectors entering the market, all of whom are discerning and well educated or advised about what to acquire

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