Daily Brief: Though overlooked, India’s border dispute with China is a major flashpoint in the Indo-Pacific, and more

Though overlooked, India’s border dispute with China is a major flashpoint in the Indo-Pacific

The possibility of yet another flare up remains real and will be detrimental to the stability of the region and all other stakeholders.

Why the ‘civil’ world failed so often to establish contact with the Sentinelese in the Andamans

An excerpt from ‘The Last Island: A Story of the Andamans and the Most Elusive Tribe in the World’, by Adam Goodheart.

ICC Men’s ODI World Cup: Mohammed Shami, India’s hero in breaking the New Zealand curse

Shami earned the player of the match award with figures of 5/54, his best bowling figures in the Men’s ODI World Cup.

How I rediscovered Joseph Conrad in Krakow, the Polish writer ‘who chose to write in English’

Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski spent his formative years, 1869-74, in Krakow and returned to the city in 1914, 40 years after he left it.

Meet Pramila Venkateswaran, winner of the Best Poetry Award at New York Book Festival

In ‘We Are Not a Museum’, history and lyricism dwell in the memory of the Jews of Kochi, where centuries of persecution have tried to erase their e...

How Naya Theatre captured India’s hearts and imagination

Playwright Habib Tanvir brought together the rich, fluid Chattisgarhi Nacha and powerful storytelling to create a deeply Indian theatre form.

‘Mother Cow, Mother India’ reveals the blindness towards the lived experience of the cow

The book urges readers to recognise animals as integral political subjects.

Start the week with a film: ‘Birdcage’ gives homophobia the rebuff it deserves

Mike Nichols’s comedy is available on Prime Video.

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