It is not for nothing that the Garhwal region of the Himalayas is referred to as deva bhumi, the...

I was shifted to the death-row cell, a place where they kept convicts who had been sentenced to...

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It is now 24 years since Morarji Desai passed away, on 10 April 1995. The younger generation may not...

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Heavy on flourish, fleet-footed to the point of extreme convolution and desperately crammed with...

The rival theories of whether individuals or socioeconomic forces determine history have their own...

With Xi Jinping being named President of China for life, a new book explores whether a fresh...

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The book’s cover is a collage of eight faces of those who were at the helm in Pakistan since its...