Majaz Lakhnavi’s popularity at Aligarh Muslim University was such that female students kept his picture beneath their pillows and held lotteries to decide who he belonged to.

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Their Punjab was divided by an international border, but the structures they confronted were recognisably related. On one ...

Sankara Nethralaya, one of India's foremost charitable eye care institutions, recently conferred its prestigious Sankara ...

Zaif Syed’s Ruttie recounts the story of Ruttie and Muhammad Ali Jinnah but leaves its deepest questions unanswered ...

A Nikkei Asia Datawatch report records a quiet but consequential withdrawal. Sovereign wealth funds (SWFs), among the world’s ...

The author reads his story from the October 26, 2026, issue of the magazine.

September 1, 2026 • Three Pulitzer winners, a Booker Prize winner, two Booker longlisted authors this year, and a number whose works have been adapted for the screen are among the authors with new ...