Of all the millions of journeys Indian Railways has undertaken since its founding in 1853, its latest – from British Raj pomp ...

We dive into everything from the new flag, population (nearly 2 billion!), massive military power, and insane linguistic and religious diversity, to whether this new “Republic of the Raj” could ...

While hundreds of millions of workers and rural poor in India struggle to make ends meet and some two hundred million people suffer from malnourishment, the income share of India’s wealthiest 1 ...

In the early 1930s, when the freedom movement was often narrated through the names of men and mass marches, a quieter and far more dangerous story was unfolding in Bengal. It belonged to a young ...

A railway man has authored two books on the Raj. The second one, titled Imperial Bureaucracy, is due to hit the stands before the end of this year. Set in the twilight of the Raj, it tells the story ...