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It must have been the unkindest cut of all for the approximately four million people of “Azad Kashmir” -- “Pakistan-occupied Kashmir” or PoK to us -- when Pakistan’s defence minister, Khawaja Muhammad Asif, dismissed them as “enemies like India”. The insult followed deadly clashes in Rawalakot and Mirpur, both in PoK, where Pakistani security forces were accused of using let...

Few public issues have shaken India’s youth as deeply in recent months as the controversy surrounding competitive examinations, such as NEET. The government’s response inter alia includes a high-level examination reform task force chaired by technocrat Nandan Nilekani, the pioneer who had created Aadhaar. This, alongside renewed emphasis on secure, technology-driven examinat...

For the 145 people aboard Air India flight AI2379, the journey from Phuket to Delhi turned without warning from an ordinary flight into a few seconds of terror as the aircraft suddenly dropped 300 feet in mid-air.

Although the aircraft regained altitude, 13 passengers and four crew members were injured. The passengers have since been discharged, while the four crew me...

Distasteful and vulgar as Tamil Nadu Opposition leader Udhayanidhi Stalin’s double-entendre comment on Cauvery water was, his arrest was an act of political excess that clouds the message the government may wish to convey against misogyny.

By grandstanding through the drama as if this was a great conquest, Udhayanidhi may have tried to give the impression that he was ...

We often learn of Bohemian gypsets whose rooms are adorned with botanical extracts, lunar wreaths, seashell coupes, oracle cards, divination candles resting on agate coasters, glass evil eyes, and silver Hamsas.

Among them was a free spirit who adored drive-in cinemas, and retro diners, travelling in her pastel-hued caravan, where she channelled her purported cla...