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Vishvaraj Singh's entry into the Udaipur City Palace lacked that over-the-topness of Rajasthan royalties. A government-mediated truce ensured Singh just slunk in.

New Delhi: Sumit Dookia's first sighting of the Great Indian Bustard was in Bikaner – he needed to ask the conservationist beside him what the creature that stood before him was.

Hand-fed and protected, artificially incubated great Indian bustards have been raised like pets at Jaisalmer's two conservation breeding centres. But their progeny hold the key to rewilding.

New Delhi: The romance of O ld Delhi—of cavernous havelis, spontaneous mehfils, and a shared faith in the spirit of Dilli is intact in stereotype only.

The Satanic Verses, published by RandomHouse in the US, is priced at Rs 1,999 because there’s no local edition available, according to Bahrisons owner Rajni Bahri.

Penguin India's Nehru Library announcement follows the Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund's plans for an audio-visual archive, which will compile material by and about Nehru under one digital platform.

New Delhi: Writer Amitava Kumar's The Green Book is, as its subtitle suggests, An Observer's Notebook. But it's also a plea for people of all ages to keep diaries; to write and write.

New Delhi: In recent years, the race for Oxford Bookstore's award for cover design has consisted of scrappy finalists from an unexpected publisher —the Jadavpur University Press.

Around 300 green crematoriums have come up in Punjab and Haryana through the efforts of Sirsa activist Ramji Jaimal. ‘We think at scale and we're a scientific people.'

New Delhi: India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, has been deified and deconstructed to no end.