By Meher Pestonji. Three paragraphs are reportedly at the root of PRHI asking Sonia Gandhi to delete or edit sections which she has refused to do.

Rajiv Gandhi entered politics, over Sonia Gandhi’s fierce objections. “For the first time, there was tension between Rajiv and me. I fought like a tigress — for him, for us and our children, above all, for our freedom.” American Kahani News Desk On Tuesday, August 18, 2026, Alfred A. Knopf — one of the most prestigious literary imprints in American publishing, an arm of Penguin Random House — made an announcement that sent an immediate ripple through Indian political and lite

By Ranjit Bhushan. Over 100 scientists and engineers have quit the country’s prestigious national space agency, ISRO.

By Kishore Kumar Singh. Kenyan Rift Valley and Maasai Mara: An epic masterpiece held together by delicate balance.

A community that was identified with Modi’s project was, in significant numbers, now standing against it.

By Mubashir Maqbool. A dangerous, beautiful thought bloomed in his chest:

By Narendra Pachkede in London. Yes, make more reels. Pass it from one phone to another, one campus to another, one language to another.

By Jayashree Srikant. How GenZ subverted the Internet blockade using high-tech stuff on their digital devices.

Why a big section of mainstream media in India, especially, TV, has lost all credibility.

At least four people were in Delhi hospitals with wounds their doctors have linked to pellet-firing shotguns, a ‘dangerous’ weapon whose use against civilians outside Jammu and Kashmir is unprecedented.

By NR Mohanty. The video evidence presented by the SIT shows that vehicles loaded with cash, gold and silver offerings have left the Ram Temple premises at least 70 times during a 45-day window.

By Amit Sengupta. Kashmir Diary. Kashmir Diary 2: The future of the world is in this room

By Uttara Shidore. What M.C. Escher taught me about autism and parenting.

By MJ Vijayan. They dared to challenge the champions and almost got them down on their knees!

By MJ Vijayan. What is the most striking question the FIFA World Cup throws at us today?

By Ajith Pillai. Data Centres: The citizens of Visakhapatnam deserve to be in the driver’s seat.

The Generation in the Middle: The pressure arrives in waves. First, it is the well-meaning aunt at a wedding. Then it is a forwarded article in the family WhatsApp group. Then it is a reel on Instagram, featuring a 29-year-old woman tearfully describing how she "waited too long". Independent Ink Feature Service There is a particular kind of exhaustion that has nothing to do with sleep deprivation, though millennial women are certainly familiar with that too. It is the exhaust

By Ajith Pillai. When a government or corporate entity opts for opacity and secrecy rather than transparency, it often indicates that it has much to conceal. The $15 billion Adani-Google hyper-scale project in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, exemplifies this. From the beginning, there has been a noticeable reluctance to share information with the citizens of this Tier 2 port city, who will be the most affected by the mega project. By all accounts, it was a covertly concei

By NR Mohanty. So why are students up in arms across India?

By Divya Trivedi. Tribute to Marjane Satrapi. Rebel, graphic artist, writer, filmmaker, a great human being.