From sacred fire to darkness: Navia Natarajan’s choreographic exploration of ‘Agni’
The Hinduby VV Ramani·26 Aug 2026
The opening lines of Subramania Bharatiyar’s poem ‘Agni Kunjondru Kanden’ resonated through the auditorium as the dancer walked onto the stage holding a lamp.
Madras Crocodile Bank turns 50: How does this reptilian zoo run?
The Hinduby Sanjana Ganesh·26 Aug 2026
Zai Whitaker distinctly remembers Madras Crocodile Bank Trust’s (MCBT) first-ever gharial. As incredulous as it sounds, it arrived in a box.
Panic over Telangana’s voter purge
The Hinduby Ravi Reddy·26 Aug 2026
The ruling Congress party has sounded the alarm over Telangana’s ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls fearing a structural voter purge similar to, what it describes as, the...
43 and counting: Statues around Hussainsagar mark shift from Telugu pride to social icons
The Hinduby Serish Nanisetti·26 Aug 2026
One of the first acts of A. Revanth Reddy after becoming Chief Minister was to unveil the statue of Telangana Thalli in the forecourt of the Secretariat.
Owaisi denounces Allahabad HC ruling on hijab as ‘attack on Islam’
The Hinduby Syed Mohammed·26 Aug 2026
All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) president Asaduddin Owaisi described the Allahabad High Court’s recent ruling denying a Muslim student permission to wear the hijab in school as an...
UPI at Ten: A Decade That Rewired How India Pays
The Hinduby Authors; Contributors·26 Aug 2026
Ten years ago this week, a modest interface called the Unified Payments Interface went live with 21 banks and barely 90,000 transactions in its first month.
China's Moonshot in talks with Microsoft, Amazon, Google over K3 revenue sharing, sources say
The Hinduby Reuters·26 Aug 2026
China’s Moonshot AI is negotiating revenue-sharing agreements with Microsoft, Amazon and Alphabet’s Google that would allow the U.S.
The many musical worlds of Kumar Gandharva
The Hinduby Devina Dutt·26 Aug 2026
There are excellent musicians, and then there are the prodigious and multifarious ones who leave successive generations of artistes, scholars and listeners with something to ponder for decades...
H1N1 surge: IMA urges caution, warns against self-medication with antibiotics and antivirals
The Hinduby ANI·26 Aug 2026
The Indian Medical Association (IMA) on Wednesday (August 26, 2026) issued a public health advisory on the seasonal surge in Influenza A (H1N1), or swine flu, during the monsoon, urging people not...
NCB busts cross-border heroin cartel in Jammu; mastermind among 3 arrested with 5.16 kg heroin
The Hinduby PTI·26 Aug 2026
In an intelligence-led operation, the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), Jammu on Wednesday (August 26, 2026) said a major cross-border heroin trafficking cartel was busted, resulting in the seizure...
From vibrant pookkalams to traditional feasts, Keralites around the globe celebrate Thiruvonam
The Hinduby The Hindu Bureau·26 Aug 2026
For Malayalis in Keralam and around the world, Wednesday (August 26, 2026) dawned with the excitement of the much-awaited Thiruvonam, which caps the 10-day Onam festivities that kick off on Atham...
North Chennai’s neighbourhood bookstores
The Hinduby Akila Kannadasan·26 Aug 2026
VadaChennai Vaasi Bookstore Started in December last year by N Vijayakumar, an advocate in the Madras High Court, MS Shahjahan, a school record clerk, and N Venmani, an architect, VadaChennai Vaasi...
A new right of way: What AP’s Pedestrian Policy means for the public
The Hinduby G V Subba Rao·26 Aug 2026
The story so far: Transforming constitutional mandates into actionable urban governance, Andhra Pradesh has become the first State in India to notify a comprehensive framework for pedestrian safety...
Deloitte to pay $21.5 million to settle U.S. government probe over DEI
The Hinduby Reuters·26 Aug 2026
Accounting firm Deloitte will pay $21.5 million to settle a U.S. Department of Justice probe over diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) practices, which President Donald Trump’s administration has...
Deletions in Karnataka’s draft SIR rolls alarming | Data
The Hinduby Pon Vasanth B A; Nitika Francis; Rishita Khanna·26 Aug 2026
The draft electoral rolls released after the completion of the enumeration phase of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in Karnataka on Monday (August 24, 2026) has revealed alarming levels of...
India must reassess its differential treatment of international criminals
The Hinduby Rohit Gupta·26 Aug 2026
When a pirate and a war criminal step on Indian soil, they may share the same spatial and temporal coordinates, but they exist in parallel universes.
Prepare for crude prices above $100
The Hinduby Shrikant Madhav Vaidya·26 Aug 2026
The world is not running out of oil. But if the Strait of Hormuz does not return to normal, inventories, bypass pipelines, and alternative supplies cannot indefinitely prevent a logistics crisis...
Revising the Indus Water Treaty
The Hinduby Anwar Sadat·26 Aug 2026
Though the Indus Water Treaty (IWT), 1960 is in abeyance, the writings on the theme relating to its past, present, and future have remained unabated.
SL vs IND Day 4: India reduce Sri Lanka to 83/2 at lunch after enforcing follow-on
The Hinduby PTI·26 Aug 2026
Indian bowlers inflicted telling blows on the top order, reducing Sri Lanka to 83/2 in their second innings at lunch after skipper Shubman Gill imposed a follow-on on the fourth day of the second...
A river as a legal person
The Hinduby Manjeri Subin Sunder Raj·26 Aug 2026
Way back in 1972, Christopher Stone, in his celebrated article “Should trees gave standing? – Toward legal rights for natural objects”, opined that whenever a new entity is provided rights, it is...
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