The dominant figure in Indian politics for nearly two decades, she was elected prime minister four times before being assassinated by her bodyguards. Indira Gandhi in 1963. She served as India’s ...
Vijay’s rise has reignited debate over whether he is the ideological heir to the Dravidian movement or the harbinger of a ...
West Bengal, Kerala and Tripura have had communist governments in the past. Here is a brief history of how they came to power and their more recent decline.
NARENDRA MODI, India’s prime minister, is a once-in-a-generation political phenomenon. He commands support for his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) across class, caste and language. He is the face of his ...
The pen might be mightier than a sword but, as Ramesh Chandra Majumdar, one of India’s leading historians of the 20th century, put it in 1970, the spade of the archeologist can be mightier than the ...
Long before Ashoka the Great left his indelible mark on stone pillars and the collective conscience of the Indian subcontinent, another towering figure laid the foundation for one of India’s most ...