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In 1974, India boycotted the most consequential tennis tie in its history. It was a moral victory, but it took its toll.

The changeover that revolutionised the Indian movie theatre, and the projectionists who watched it happen.

How Prohibition came to Andhra Pradesh, and how it’s going.

An oral history of ‘Mundian To Bach Ke.’

Evolutionary ecologists keep finding new species in the Western Ghats. Here’s how it happens.

Exactly thirty years ago, an Indo-Japanese contingent set off on an audacious rafting trip on the Brahmaputra.

A brief history of the Tezpur mental hospital through epidemics, wars and partitions.

What it’s like to grow up in one of the chess capitals of the world.

It’s shopping season, and you’re buying the same thing over and over again.

She was shunted out of the history of India’s most prestigious business school. On her birth centenary, a researcher redresses the record.

Name, place, animals: the things that keep horse racing alive in India.

From an English chemist to YouTube cooks via refugees from Rawalpindi, how custard changed India’s sweet tooth

A dog’s life in Gurgaon? It’s not for everyone.

An open letter to the Supreme Court changed the way many Indians thought about women’s rights. The rest should be history.

One man’s quest to save a Nilgiris forest, and how it changed Indian environmental law.

From the jungles to the negotiating table, a short history of India’s longest-running insurgency.

A personal history of how the internet came home, became magazine fodder, and changed a life

For a few days in 1995, many Indians believed a religious idol had developed a lifelike ability to drink milk.

Aristocrats, enigmatic wives, and spymasters in the drama of Sikkim’s merger with India

Twenty-four years ago, two burning planes plunged into the mustard and cotton fields of a Haryana village. It changed the way we fly