Daily Brief: Why terms of reference of ‘one nation, one election’ panel have created controversy, and more

Explainer: Why terms of reference of ‘one nation, one election’ panel have created controversy

What has the eight-member panel on holding simultaneous elections exactly been tasked with?

J&K administration revokes suspension order of lecturer who argued against abrogation of Article 370

Zahoor Bhat was suspended after he told the Supreme Court that the abolition of the special status granted to Jammu and Kashmir was against the Con...

From the memoir: Mani Shankar Aiyar on his first election victory and a ‘half-life’ in politics

An excerpt from ‘Memoirs of a Maverick: The First Fifty Years (1941–1991)’.

G20: India has work to do on key human rights issues as world leaders gather in Delhi

While celebrating diversity and democracy, heads of state must remember that institutions that uphold rights are under threat – in India and their ...

How a publisher and a foundation are furthering translations between India’s languages

A partnership between Zubaan publishers and the Prabha Khaitan Foundation is showing the way.

Embarking on the divine: On translating the Urdu poet Jaun Elia

Translator Ammar Aziz writes that [his] strategy is to be ‘loyal to the form, the grandeur, the silences, and the shadows in Elia’s verses’.

S Hussain Zaidi interview: ‘There still is a big interest in crime, biopics are in fashion’

The prolific writer is involved with the upcoming series ‘Bambai Meri Jaan’, which chronicles the rise of a gangster modelled on Dawood Ibrahim.

What to read in September: Six new works of fiction usher in the end of summer

Three new books of short stories, two novels in translation, an anthology of crime fiction from Scotland and Kolkata, and more.

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