Rawalpindi is seen to patronise him. And it’s a conducive pitch electorally—even if Nawaz Sharif, playing the victim card, poses a threat from prison. But the pennants of Imran Khan’s PTI fly the highest. Can he lay a new path for Pakistan’s fractured polity?

The dent in Nawaz Sharif’s electoral power, engineered with much care, has boosted Imran Khan’s position in the forthcoming election in Pakistan.

In his potential new role as helmsman of not just a playing eleven but all of Pakistan, is Imran Khan likely to unleash another hostile spell against India? Or will Imran the politician be different—marked by flexibility, pragmatism and amiabil­ity?

The terms of engagement that Imran Khan will offer will be no different from those of the past: dia­logue under the shadow of calibrated terrorism and greater focus on issue resolution than building co-operative mechanisms through trade and connectivity.

The BJP-led Mah­a­rashtra government launched Manodhairya Yojana with much fanfare and made it its showcase initiative, offering a compensation of Rs 3 lakh to rape and acid-attack survivors, to be given in instalments.

Former CBI top cop V.V. Lakshminarayana could be inching closer to a political debut.

Those who quit the Congress claim that the seniors and old timers have not been given their due in Gujarat.

A push to garble Jadavpur University’s admission process fails; fingers point at TMC

Social security enrolment of workers is not a good measure of how many new jobs are created

Political instability, workers’ exodus and climate change are robbing Darjeeling tea of its pre-eminence

Positive steps have been taken to refine the GST regime

Lakhs of people mig­rated from north India to the south in pursuit of employment opportunities. The trend of southward migration picked up somewhere around the 1980s, str­engthening impressively in the subsequent decades.

As artists get ready to explore the wonders of this versatile weave, the ­gamchha is slowly dispelling the myth about the poor man’s towel, with its ­str­ikingly rich colours.

The apex court’s verdict on Section 377 is poised to bring tectonic shifts in Indian society, but subtly

Pencak silat, sambo, wushu...the Asiad will bristle with martial arts events, and Indians are more than game for a throw

Genial, humble and a democrat. Such is the picture of Atal Behari Vajpayee seen in Karan Thapar’s memoir.

Planning to update your book shelf? Here’s a list of new books up for grabs.

A rendition of poet Ghulam Ahmad Mahjoor's classic, "Ha Gulo" is the th first Kashmiri song to be featured on Coke Studio Exp­lorer, an initiative by the Pakistani franchise of ­music platform Coke Studio.

Sacred Games is replete with ­n­o-holds-barred sex scenes, inc­­­l­u­ding frontal nudity, unabashed use of violence, cuss words and, above all, con­­tentious references to various vol­atile political events of the past—just the sort of ­material the censor board has ­always ­gleefully chopped off.

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She was born in the Caribbean but has lived in India a long time. In this diary, Peggy Mohan writes about the similarities between India and Trinidad.

Why a police constable was awarded an all-expenses-paid honeymoon in Kerala to a forest department’s decision to christen their tot­emic elephant with a Sanskritised name. Read all this and much more here.

Women’s sexuality and internet porn are boldly recast by a thorough debunking of old norms

Liberal in approach, perorative in tone, Tharoor decries the loss of Hinduism’s ancient openness at the hands of colonials and nationalists old and new

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