The dominant figure in Indian politics for nearly two decades, she was elected prime minister four times before being assassinated by her bodyguards.

BERLIN, winter 2026: the Berlinale film festival, with thick snow on the ground. But we’re cosy in the modernist brick surrounds of the Akademie der Kunste. On stage, the man who knows more about ...

Mangalesh Dabral’s prose-poem A Letter to Children is one of those rare works of literature that transcends its immediate cultural context and becomes a moral compass for our times. Written in Hindi ...

This essay offers a sociological reading of three poems, framing silence as a form of resistance—against noise, injustice, and dehumanization.

The 8th Central Pay Commission invites online feedback via MyGov on salaries, pensions, allowances and pay policies. Here is ...

WASHINGTON — An annual meeting of the nation’s governors that has long served as a rare bipartisan gathering is unraveling after President Donald Trump excluded Democratic governors from White House ...

The makers of The Paradise have officially released the film’s first single, ‘Aaya Sher’, and it has taken the internet by storm. Within hours of its debut, the track racked up over 22 million views ...

Excerpted with permission from the publisher The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Revised Edition, 2026), Siddhartha Mukherjee, published by Fourth Estate, HarperCollins India.

Preparing for a crisis takes the same level of precision as an actor getting ready for the Oscars. While most people assume a few cases of bottled water are enough when disaster strikes, anyone who ...

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Stomach ulcers, also known as peptic ulcers, are open sores in the lining of your stomach or the upper part of your small intestine. The ulcer forms when stomach acid eats away at the mucus that ...