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SY Quraishi recalls the day Manmohan Singh said, ‘I will commit suicide’

The launch of former Chief Election Commissioner SY Quraishi's book, India and I, was more of a storytelling event. There was not a dry eye in the packed hall in IIC, Delhi.

When Asha Bhosle’s driver got worried about her health. She was practising an RD Burman song

At Delhi’s India International Centre, cinema studies scholar Shikha Jhingan regaled the room with stories of Asha Bhosle.

A new book is taking on Milton Friedman’s theory. Businesses needn’t be all about profits

The Business of Business Is (Not) Just Business, a collection of essays, was launched on July 22 in Delhi. It followed a discussion on if businesses should think beyond making money.

IIT Madras professor who shaped Startup India says country now needs 20 million entrepreneurs

Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal joined the launch of Sonali Malhotra's Roots and Wings, a biography of IIT Madras professor Ashok Jhunjhunwala, at the India Habitat Centre.

OP Jain’s collection has a new home. Lota, shawl, hookah now at Humayun’s Tomb Museum

From baby walkers to ornate opium pipes, Delhiites can explore centuries of everyday Indian life starting 1 August.

Indian para sport is on the rise. At Commonwealth send-off, a vision ‘beyond ‘competitions’

India’s 28-member para contingent for 2026 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow got a send-off at Delhi’s Leela Palace on Monday.

India’s democracy is now at greatest strain since Independence, says Ashutosh Varshney

At a talk in Delhi, political scientist Ashutosh Varshney argued that India is now on a journey from electoral vibrancy to electoral erosion, in part due to SIR.

Lights, camera, cancer. Survivors are turning their pain into comedy

Organised by an unlikely group of former cancer patients, Comedy in Chaos was a near-perfect mix of dark humour and real talk.

Maharaja Ranjit Singh to Afghan nobles—19th-century India through a British woman’s eyes

The DAG exhibition ‘Princes & People of India: Portraits by Emily Eden’ will remain on display until 1 August. ‘No Western woman had such access’

Winner, winner, duck dinner—beer gets fine-dining treatment at Delhi FIFA-themed feast

Beers from football powerhouses Germany, Spain, and Belgium were paired with dishes such as confit duck pate at a FIFA-themed dinner at Top Banana. ‘Our goal is to elevate beer.’

On Camera

Ajinkya Rahane’s farewell closes the chapter on India’s greatest Test generation

Ajinkya Rahane was at the heart of India's rise under Kohli and Shastri. Nowhere was his understated value more immortalised than during the 2020–21 Border-Gavaskar Trophy.

Despite PM Modi’s appeal to cut fertiliser use, farmers show no sign of scaling back—Parliament data

Combined sales of urea, DAP, MOP and complex fertilisers rose 25 percent in April even as Modi asked farmers to cut chemical fertiliser use by up to half to save soil and foreign exchange

In Delhi, an emotional farewell to former Army chief Gen VN Sharma with full state honours

The three service chiefs paid tributes, along with several former Army chiefs. Friends & fellow soldiers remember him as a 'natural charmer'.

India’s Gen Z has opened a breach, for BJP to fill or Opposition to widen

The young people broke the self-imposed silence among the elite not to speak a word critical of the Modi government, except to whisper on the sidelines, looking left, right and behind.