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Reshmi DasguptaThe Times of India |
With a policy of non-cooperation set by the CM herself, it is not surprising that Droupadi Murmu was insulted in West Bengal and the event she graced...
By coming to life from images on ancient coins, carvings and murals, this stitched ship has become tangible proof of India’s long-sidelined maritime...
There is something fishy about arresting Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor for ‘misconduct in public office’ but letting Lord Mandelson off the hook.
Bengal must restore the sanctity of the river by calling it once again by its traditional name
India came onto Epstein’s radar only after 2014, and even then his interest in India was hardly intense
Museums, dealers, galleries and collectors abroad used the Indian government’s previous slow pace and lack of records to ‘legitimise’ trafficked...
Because ASI, running on shoestring government allocations simply cannot do the needful
For anyone living in a country like India where most police personnel—let alone civilians—do not carry arms, the inescapable conclusion is that...
Many schools in Britain allow hijabs; how many allow tilaks or even understand why they should be considered on par with other faith symbols?
Details of the list of ‘logical discrepancies’ flagged by the Election Commission’s Special Intensive Review promise noteworthy insights
The TMC Lok Sabha member’s glaring historical blunder on sati has become a telling commentary on political hubris and the steady erosion of...
Even if there is ever a secular regime there, the majority faith will remain Islam and chances of a grand revival of Zoroastrianism are thus remote
His destruction of Somnath set off a millennium-long assault; that it stands proudly again is a testament to the quiet determination of the children...
Because the Nobel Peace Prize is the main qualification for ‘international’ candidates for top national political office
Because it highlights deep divisions within the 'qaum' there and posits an Indian agent as the provocateur
For far too long India has been diffident and followed western norms of diplomatic dining
Inadequately-informed, inarticulate guides and sanguine visitors make for a double whammy of trouble and tension at monuments
One of the dangers of erasing history is that a Pandora’s box can be opened unwittingly
Good relations between brother-sister politicos hinge on the latter assuming the ‘trad’ lesser role; but that pact is disappearing
The parallels to Rouvanjit Rawla’s suicide in 2010 in Kolkata are evident but all the accused teachers were exonerated by the court in 2012
A state within a state is evolving there, building on its majority community’s guilt over the supposed rise of Islamophobia
Even as the world’s third largest ‘polluter’, India is far behind China and the US, and Indians’ per capita emissions are really minuscule
The resignations and accusations suggest otherwise
Because Indian women’s participation in sports and games from ancient times is more real than Leftist academics have posited for a long time
As a pragmatic, political, Hindu spouse, she has all the tools to weather this storm
Impoverished bluebloods and social climbing hucksters make a deadly combination
The first king dumped Catholicism and created the Church of England so that he could divorce and remarry; now the second may undo all that
Indology has been dominated for far too long by non-Indians; it is time to reclaim it
He may never stand trial in a 'common' court but being divested of royal titles is a death-like penalty for a prince
The cases of Tellis in US and the two Christophers in UK prove that China’s tentacles reach even the most unlikely places
The killer may not realise exactly how many equations were changed by his deed
Because her defamation case could finally provide a definition of sex and gender, currently contested by transgender advocates
In today’s toxic UK climate, how long before music is deemed too ‘white’, offensive to faith or culture, or branded as colonial oppression?
The British have pulled out all the stops to give a right royal welcome to Donald Trump — arguably the most Anglophile US President in recent memory
Cancel culture, subversive indoctrination and Antifa activism on US campuses are bound to have tragic consequences
Because Vivek Agnihotri has shone a harsh light on the past so that its glare also reveals similar monsters flourishing in the dark corners of the...
West Bengal’s Chief Minister is no longer the only one meaningfully contributing to the advancement of Bangla; hopefully, Moitra’s head will not...