And the other, a sweetmeat called sohan halwa, the spelling more commonly used today. However, I will refer to it as halwa-i sūhan or sūhan halwa for the reason that will become apparent shortly. A ...

After Ajit Pawar died in a plane crash, reports had said that his party was considering uniting with the Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar).

Five persons were arrested after the parapet segment of an under-construction metro bridge in Mumbai collapsed, killing one ...

In spite of the enthusiasm ahead of the polls, there was caution and getting people to talk on the record was tough.

Untrained drivers, not faulty technology, is the leading cause, say municipal corporations and civil advocates.

An interview with the author of ‘Courtesans Don’t Read Newspapers’, which was translated from the Hindi by Vaibhav Sharma.

Devastated to hear that the great sociologist André Béteille is no more. He was the Indian scholar I most admired, for me (and many others) a moral and intellectual anchor. Here's a tribute I ...

Why did the bells echo in my mind when I sat down to write? As though there were a secret pact between memory and the act of writing, which nudged into being an “organic” space – one that seemed of ...

The gig workers’ strike and IndiGo’s flight schedule collapse reflect how state cronyism is leading to a dangerous imbalance of labour and capital.

Gupta ‘facilitated a foreign adversary’s unlawful effort to silence a vocal critic of the Indian government’, the FBI said ...

Official estimates suggest that more than 500,000 people could benefit, but this could be an underestimate. According to a ...

Such cards were meant to shock, offend, upset their recipients. Not surprisingly, as with real Valentine’s Day cards, senders ...