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Caste-away: Still surviving beyond India's shores

India, Nov. 1 -- In July 1982, prime minister Indira Gandhi was set to visit the US. Triumphant after her return from the political wilderness following the debacle of the Emergency, Gandhi's meetings... Read More


life and times of Sardar Patel

India, Nov. 1 -- India on Friday celebrated the 150th birth anniversary of the first home minister and deputy prime minister, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, who welded the country into one nation post-inde... Read More


Fork in the road

India, Nov. 1 -- Doesn't everything taste better when you are on the road? Every time I come back from a trip, I spend a few days caressing my memories. Because I eat for a living, many of the memorie... Read More


A new coast story

India, Nov. 1 -- There are places that look exactly like you imagined them: The pyramids of Giza, the desert sands of Morocco, the mountains of Tibet. Diu, that rarely visited island just off the coas... Read More


Let's borrow this idea

India, Nov. 1 -- I was in Helsinki last month, as part of a Climate Solutions visit organised by the Finnish government. I was hoping the airport taxi driver would be chatty, that he'd tell me what to... Read More


On spicy MCG pitch, India fail the Hazlewood test

Kolkata, Nov. 1 -- Abhishek Sharma shone with a 37-ball 68 but couldn't prevent Australia from taking a 1-0 lead with a four-wicket win at the MCG on a cold Friday night. At a capacity stadium that mu... Read More


UP eye maiden win against Baroda

LUCKNOW, Nov. 1 -- Out of their seven league matches in the last season of the Ranji Trophy, former champions Uttar Pradesh could win just one game and, that too, against poor-performing Bihar. A sixt... Read More


'Abrogating Art 370 was true tribute to Patel'

LUCKNOW, Nov. 1 -- Chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday said India's first Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru attempted to keep Jammu and Kashmir disputed while the nation's first deputy PM Sa... Read More


Citizens turning changemakersunder Matrubhoomi Yojana in UP

LUCKNOW, Nov. 1 -- When Sheela Sharma from Unnao decided to set up an art centre in her native village Kamalpur, it wasn't just another rural development project. It was rather the fulfilment of a lif... Read More


'Not empowered to deregister parties for holding caste rallies'

Lucknow, Nov. 1 -- Amid the ongoing debate on caste assertion in politics, the Election Commission of India (ECI) has submitted an affidavit in the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court, stating t... Read More