MUMBAI AND SAN FRANCISCO — One night last month, police crowded into the lobby of Twitter's offices in India's capital New Delhi. They were from an elite squad that normally investigates terrorism and ...

India should start enabling its competence, both for survival and being one among the equals in the modern space race, to not get into another "colonization" situation, said AS Kiran Kumar, Former ...

K. N. Panikkar shaped how modern India studies its past, questioning easy narratives and confronting the politics of memory.

When the makers of the Indian Republic came together to give us a Constitution and the various symbols that would represent us, they did not erase the past; neither did they blindly accept the British ...

Virtually every smartphone runs on Google’s Android system. YouTube is the favorite video platform and Amazon is the No. 2 online retailer. For some Indian political leaders, it is as if their nation ...

A historian has suggested Britain return looted artefacts to its former colonies instead of vast sums in reparations, after an Oxfam report suggested India was owed over £52 trillion. The report ...

When India gained independence in 1947, the nation faced a decision that would determine the course of its architectural future: brick or concrete. A seemingly mundane choice of material was rooted in ...

British colonialism turned India’s tigers into trophies. Between 1860 and 1950, more than 65,000 were shot for their skins. The fortunes of the Bengal tiger, one of Earth’s biggest species of big cat, ...

Chris Martin is grateful that Coldplay's Indian fans don't hold British colonialism against him. While performing recently in Mumbai, the Coldplay singer, 47, said the band "couldn't ask for a better ...