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‘Heartbreak and Loss Threw Me Into Politics’: Sonia Gandhi Breaks a Lifetime of Silence With a 544-Page Memoir
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
Smash the Patriarchy: Why should Menstruation become a Crime?
By Suresh Nautiyal. It's a deliberate attack on a woman's autonomy, dignity and self-respect.
ISRO: Privatization triggers an unprecedented exodus
By Ranjit Bhushan. Over 100 scientists and engineers have quit the country’s prestigious national space agency, ISRO.
The Age of Innocence
By Ratna Raman. This is a book that Indian children must be asked to read, since it captures growing up in a large family in the countryside with friends and community, in an age of innocence; unheard of in the modern nuclear families in the cities and circumstances in which we currently live.
Nature's Greatest Open-air Theatre
By Kishore Kumar Singh. Kenyan Rift Valley and Maasai Mara: An epic masterpiece held together by delicate balance.
GROUP PHOTOGRAPH next to a BHAGAT SINGH statue?: NOT ALLOWED!
“Go anywhere and take a photo, but not here in front of Bhagat Singh’s statue…”
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‘You are not alone’: How Indians Across America Rallied for the Cockroaches, in a Divided Diaspora
A community that was identified with Modi’s project was, in significant numbers, now standing against it.
The Fractured Lens: A Kashmiri Student's Unfinished Theory
By Mubashir Maqbool. A dangerous, beautiful thought bloomed in his chest:
Here’s an idea: MAKE MORE REELS
By Narendra Pachkede in London. Yes, make more reels. Pass it from one phone to another, one campus to another, one language to another.
Politics
‘Heartbreak and Loss Threw Me Into Politics’: Sonia Gandhi Breaks a Lifetime of Silence With a 544-Page Memoir
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
ISRO: Privatization triggers an unprecedented exodus
By Ranjit Bhushan. Over 100 scientists and engineers have quit the country’s prestigious national space agency, ISRO.
PM cares?
Independent Ink Editorial: The secrecy surrounding the fund and its contributors is puzzling. If the money it receives is being used for public relief, why is there a need for secrecy?
History
There may not be any 'Other' like you
Professor Sumit Sarkar: A tribute to the intellect infinite, or as they say in simple Latin, intellectus infinitus.
‘I claim Tagore and Iqbal, Lata Mangeshkar and Mehdi Hassan, Mohenjo-daro and Taxila’
By Pervez Akhtar Khan, retired Air Commodore of the Pakistan Air Force. Patriotism does not mean hate another country.
Odyssey: The desire to return...
By Narendra Pachkhede. Odysseus must leave home once more. He must carry the instrument of his voyage beyond the reach of the story that made him heroic, into a country where his name, his ordeals and the sea itself possess no authority.
Society
Smash the Patriarchy: Why should Menstruation become a Crime?
By Suresh Nautiyal. It's a deliberate attack on a woman's autonomy, dignity and self-respect.
The Age of Innocence
By Ratna Raman. This is a book that Indian children must be asked to read, since it captures growing up in a large family in the countryside with friends and community, in an age of innocence; unheard of in the modern nuclear families in the cities and circumstances in which we currently live.
Fear, surveillance and do it or else! The Making of Independence Day in Kashmir
The emphasis, a teacher adds, is more on collecting evidence of celebration than the actual celebration.
Ground Report
To Rebel is To Be!
By Amit Sengupta. The sudden, radical rupture inflames the rain-soaked afternoon. The fire spreads in the eyes, and inside clenched fists. A mother holds her little child close to her heart, eyes blazing. A thin, wiry young woman in a red sari, becomes a fiery symbol of shakti – women’s power. A grandmother is so intense, that her entire history of angst and anger explodes.
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‘Heartbreak and Loss Threw Me Into Politics’: Sonia Gandhi Breaks a Lifetime of Silence With a 544-Page Memoir
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
Smash the Patriarchy: Why should Menstruation become a Crime?
By Suresh Nautiyal. It's a deliberate attack on a woman's autonomy, dignity and self-respect.
ISRO: Privatization triggers an unprecedented exodus
By Ranjit Bhushan. Over 100 scientists and engineers have quit the country’s prestigious national space agency, ISRO.
The Age of Innocence
By Ratna Raman. This is a book that Indian children must be asked to read, since it captures growing up in a large family in the countryside with friends and community, in an age of innocence; unheard of in the modern nuclear families in the cities and circumstances in which we currently live.
There may not be any 'Other' like you
Professor Sumit Sarkar: A tribute to the intellect infinite, or as they say in simple Latin, intellectus infinitus.
PM cares?
Independent Ink Editorial: The secrecy surrounding the fund and its contributors is puzzling. If the money it receives is being used for public relief, why is there a need for secrecy?
Nature's Greatest Open-air Theatre
By Kishore Kumar Singh. Kenyan Rift Valley and Maasai Mara: An epic masterpiece held together by delicate balance.
Fear, surveillance and do it or else! The Making of Independence Day in Kashmir
The emphasis, a teacher adds, is more on collecting evidence of celebration than the actual celebration.
Why something is so rotten about so many of our schools...
By Anuradha Bhasin. Over one lakh schools nationwide are run by a single teacher.
‘I claim Tagore and Iqbal, Lata Mangeshkar and Mehdi Hassan, Mohenjo-daro and Taxila’
By Pervez Akhtar Khan, retired Air Commodore of the Pakistan Air Force. Patriotism does not mean hate another country.
‘It takes your money, your years, your mental health, your confidence, and returns nothing'
UGC-NET exams: ‘It takes your money, your years, your mental health, your confidence, and returns nothing.'
‘You are not alone’: How Indians Across America Rallied for the Cockroaches, in a Divided Diaspora
A community that was identified with Modi’s project was, in significant numbers, now standing against it.
Odyssey: The desire to return...
By Narendra Pachkhede. Odysseus must leave home once more. He must carry the instrument of his voyage beyond the reach of the story that made him heroic, into a country where his name, his ordeals and the sea itself possess no authority.
GROUP PHOTOGRAPH next to a BHAGAT SINGH statue?: NOT ALLOWED!
“Go anywhere and take a photo, but not here in front of Bhagat Singh’s statue…”
The Fractured Lens: A Kashmiri Student's Unfinished Theory
By Mubashir Maqbool. A dangerous, beautiful thought bloomed in his chest:
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