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Economy
Subhas Chandra Bose, Meghnad Saha and the Birth of the National Planning Commission
Although Netaji was not around when independent India embarked on its five-year plans in the 1950s, it is obvious that the work of the Planning Committee he co-founded had been the pathfinder.
Security
Freedom on the Waves: The Story of the 1946 Indian Naval Mutiny
‘For the first time the blood of men in the Services and in the streets flowed together in a common cause’. The Royal Indian Navy’s mutiny will now be commemorated in a Republic Day tableau.
Culture
How – and Why – 'Jana Gana Mana' Became India's National Anthem
Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, who was instrumental in making it the anthem of the INA, particularly appreciated its pan-India and secular reach.
Science
With a Third Wave on the Horizon, a Closer Look at Kolkata’s Vaccination Coverage
Science
Is Vaccination Protecting Bengal’s Elderly People From COVID-19?
More News
The Netaji Files Reveal a Tale of Nehru's Warmth – Not Sinister Conspiracy
The declassified ‘Netaji Files’ reveal how Prime Minister Nehru and chief minister Bidhan Chandra Roy took care of Subhas Chandra Bose’s family.
Top Stories
Musings on Art, Caste and Rape in Churu, Rajasthan
Another day, another brutal gang rape of a Dalit woman. This time by a group of policemen who beat her brother-in-law to death first. Inured usually to such news, two details stuck out – the fact that this took place in Sardarshahar, and that they had pulled out her nails.
Science
How a Tiny Insect Was Used to Trace the Origins of Human Clothing
Important clue: The head louse is a bloodsucking insect that lives only on the scalp – but the body louse doesn’t venture towards the head.
The Infamous Macaulay Speech That Never Was
A quotation supposedly culled from a speech by Thomas Babington Macaulay is a staple of social media forwards and has even been quoted by senior Indian politicians. But is it authentic?
Remembering Sambhu Nath De, the Medical Man for the Blue Death
The scientific genius of Sambhu Nath De was the source of discoveries in bacteriology that saved millions of lives around the world. A tribute on his centenary.
‘It is With These Men Alone that the Gates of Heaven Shall Open for Me’
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the pan-continental attempts by Indian revolutionaries to launch an armed revolt against the British.
