India must not slavishly follow Western models any longer. Nor can India be China. What is the way forward then?

Even though the first merit list is out, uncertainty clouds the calendars of junior colleges thanks to a circular sent out by ...

Everyone does have one or two favourite conspiracy theories. Among mine are that Marco Polo never did get to China, and that Donald Trump has not read an entire book in his adult life.

Shahid Alam and I go back a long way, though we had both half-forgotten it until recently. He was two years senior to me at ...