In his essay, “The Politics of Assassination of Gandhi”, Ashis Nandy argues that Gandhian ideas posed a threat to the traditional Indian society.

After the end of the Cold War and the subsequent “unipolar moment” in the 1990s, the US foreign policy significantly focused on the promotion of democracy and ...

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MC Jithin’s directional ‘Sookshmadarshini’ is a Malayalam fun thriller, moves away from a conventional police procedural when a crime happens.

Dinjith Ayyathan’s ‘Kishkindha Kaandam’, a 2024 Malayalam thriller, enmeshes emotions, familial relations, and mystery in his storytelling. Monikered after Ramayana’s Kishkindha Kaandam, where Lord ...

Manjummel Boys (2024), directed by Chidambaram, is a Malayalam survival thriller inspired by a real-life incident from 2006 in Guna Caves in Kodaikanal.

Mehta asks: “Despite having a functioning democracy for almost five decades, does the entire repertoire of our habits and practices outside the sphere of formal politics conduce to the formation of ...

However, Avinash Paliwal, in his new book, India’s Near East, published in 2024, argues that each of these instances in India’s near east—a term Paliwal uses to reference India’s northeastern states ...

In recent years, there have been highly sophisticated—all scholarly—debates and disagreements about whether to brush your teeth in the morning, brush them ...

Traffic signals halt our movement and absorb us into the world for a moment. Just as we wait for signals to start blinking, we feel, observe, smell, rationalise, envy, smile, and smirk all at once or ...

In Shadows at Noon, Joya Chatterji has documented the history of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh in the long ‘South Asian twentieth century’.