An excerpt from ‘Every Happiness’, by Reena Shah.

The region is central to how New Delhi has redefined the Indian Ocean as a buffer and a primary theatre of influence linking the Indo-Pacific to the Red Sea.

Discrimination based on age is a violation of Canadian law, which applies to many who apply for permanent residency.

Labour law requires conciliation, adjudication, a process. Criminal law requires none of that.

‘The highlight of most journeys comes when you stumble upon something you had never heard about, and that usually takes place only after a wrong turn.’

Faisal Devji writes that once Islam was imagined as a historical actor, it lost something of its purely theological character.

In the aftermath of Partition, the Constituent Assembly debated ‘conversion’ but incorporated freedom of a religion as a fundamental right.

Google, Microsoft, and Amazon are each developing at least one big multibillion-dollar data centre project in India.

Rabindranath Tagore was born on this day, the 25th of Boishakh, 1268, on the Bengali calendar, 165 years ago.