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Books Jan.18.20

Constitutional crisis: What happens when the courts and the legislature clash

When the UP legislature ordered two high court judges to appear before it, the Supreme Court had to play peacemaker in a landmark 1964 case
By Chintan Chandrachud
Health Jan.16.20

Rujuta Diwekar's three rules of sustainable health

How does one go about deciding if a diet pattern, a workout regime or a lifestyle will lead to good health?
By Rujuta Diwekar
Books Jan.12.20

Thus began the end

INSIGHT: A new book recounts the shots at Plassey, the shots that were to clear the way for the empire
By Sudeep Chakravarti
India Jan.7.20

How Delhi Police cracked the Nirbhaya case

The Delhi Police nabbed all six accused in the Nirbhaya case within five days of the crime
By Neeraj Kumar
Business Dec.18.19

What was Cyrus Mistry appealing against?

Here's a recap of the NCLT order that has been reversed
By Deepali Gupta
Books Dec.16.19

Life in the tea estates of Ooty

Stories from the tea plantations of South India
By M. Ravindran and Saaz Aggarwal
Books Dec.12.19

Do we overestimate the benefits of migration?

Nobel laureates Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo say in their book Good Economics for Hard Times that migration is a plunge into the unknown, which may make people reluctant to undertake it. Excerpt
By Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo
Books Dec.9.19

R N Kao: India's first and foremost super spy

Kao who was later handpicked to set up R&AW, got his first break in 1955 when he investigated the crash of an Air India plane, the Kashmir Princess
By Nitin A. Gokhale
Culture Dec.3.19

Dining in Mughal India

Markets in cities such as Lahore, Hyderabad and Lucknow had entire streets devoted to food, full of small restaurants and famous cooks who specialized in a single dish
By Anoothi Vishal
Books Nov.14.19

‘Jawahar will be my successor’: Mahatma Gandhi

"Once I am gone, he will do what I am doing now. Then he will speak my language too," said Mahatma Gandhi in his speech to the AICC on January 25, 1942
By M K Gandhi, an extract from the book 'Who is Bharat Mata?'

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