Daily Brief: An arrest in Kashmiri lawyer’s murder leads to more unanswered questions, and more

An arrest in Kashmiri lawyer’s murder leads to more unanswered questions

An influential separatist voice, Mian Abdul Qayoom, has been held in the case, which now seems enmeshed in the complex politics of the Valley.

Unsafe by design: Bad infrastructure keeps women watching their backs – fixing this would be a start

Patriarchal anxiety over women’s mobility will not change overnight, but an immediate focus on lighting, security and the like could improve safety...

Kolkata rape and murder: Our daughter’s body cremated in haste, claims father of junior doctor

No results had come out of the inquiry being done into the case, he said.

‘All options are open’, says JMM leader Champai Soren amid speculation about him joining BJP

Earlier on Sunday, the former chief minister of Jharkhand said he had not met leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party and his Delhi visit was ‘personal’.

How two English artists, a century apart, saw the Taj Mahal and what it says about colonial-era art

Foreign artists around 1800 saw their work as scholarly, ‘revealing’ India to the world, but Victorian-era artists offered a more personal view of ...

How the Indian upper castes (and the Portuguese) exploited the tribals of Dadra and Nagar Haveli

An excerpt from ‘Uprising: The Liberation of Dadra and Nagar Haveli’, by Neelesh Kulkarni.

August global nonfiction: Six new books to read to acquaint yourself with the stories of the world

A memoir of mental illness, the civil war in America, the human cost of AI, a biography of Elizabeth II and more.

Start the week with a film: ‘Ullozhukku’ floats on the strength of terrific performances

Christo Tomy’s Malayalam drama stars Urvashi and Parvathy Thiruvothu.

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