Piyush Mishra has spent decades being celebrated as a voice of artistic integrity, but his novelised memoir, Tumhari Auqaat Kya Hai, Piyush Mishra, is not interested in celebration. Written against the grain of autobiography, the book dismantles the mythology that has grown around him and replaces it with a quieter, more unsettling inquiry into worth,...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to flag off India’s first Vande Bharat sleeper train from Malda in West Bengal on January 17, with regular passenger services beginning between Howrah and Guwahati on January 18. This launch represents a significant step in modernising overnight rail travel across the eastern region. Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw announced...

Republican firebrand Marjorie Taylor Greene, long known for her staunch “America first” rhetoric, has introduced a bill in the House of Representatives seeking to completely terminate the H-1B visa program, a key pathway for skilled foreign workers, a significant number of whom are from India.The legislation, designated HR 6937, was filed in the House on...