University of the West Indies and pursued a PhD in the same from the University of Michigan. She has taught linguistics at Howard University, Washington D.C., Jawaharlal Nehru University and Ashoka ...

Ahead of the 2026 Tamil Nadu assembly elections, at a high-profile press conference in Chennai on 11 April, the union home minister Amit Shah formally announced the revival of the Bharatiya Janata ...

On 23 March, the standup comedian Kunal Kamra posted Naya Bharat, a set about contemporary politics he had recorded at Mumbai’s The Habitat in January, on his YouTube channel. Within hours, cadre from ...

ON 2 MAY 1996, a Central Bureau of Investigation team in Madras arrested the astrologer and mystic Nemichand Jain—popularly known as Chandraswami, seen here arriving for a hearing, the following month ...

In November 2022, a confrontation over podu—shifting cultivation practised on forest land—between forest officials and Gutti Koya Adivasis in Telangana’s Bhadradri Kothagudem district ended with the ...

MUSHROOM ROCK HAS probably witnessed many changes to its surrounding environment in its roughly 2-billion-year history. But 30 March 2025 was perhaps the first time it bore witness to a brutal police ...

SOMETIME IN THE MIDDLE OF 2018, a team from the Central Bureau of Investigation touched down at the airport near Port Louis, the picturesque capital of the Indian Ocean tax haven of Mauritius. It had ...

The horrific Pahalgam attack last week, which claimed 28 lives, mostly tourists, has left Kashmir reeling. Yet, amid the grief and anger lies an unexpected opportunity for the Modi government to ...