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Abraham Verghese’s Sweeping New Fable of Family and Medicine

THE COVENANT OF WATER, by Abraham Verghese Abraham Verghese occupies a curious place in the modern literary landscape. A doctor…

Health

A Tasting to Benefit the American Indian College Fund

Try dishes from five Indigenous chefs, check out an exhibit on 100 years of restaurant menus and more.

Health

The Essential (and at Times, Elusive) Power of Mustard Oil

South Asian cooks swear by the bite of mustard oil. But in the West, it is not as widely available.

World

Vivan Sundaram, 79, Dies; a Pivotal, and Political, Figure in Indian Art

Veering from European-inspired abstraction, he embraced multimedia forms to reflect the realities of a country torn by ethnic and religious…

World

Can India Change the World?

NEW DELHI — Is India the world’s next tiger economy, poised to succeed a slowing China as a pillar of…

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Putin’s top security adviser holds talks with India’s prime minister as Moscow seeks closer ties.

A senior security adviser to President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia met with India’s prime minister in Delhi on Wednesday…

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Internet Blocked in Indian State as Security Forces Pursue Separatist

The rise of Amritpal Singh, a self-styled preacher, has raised fears of violence in Punjab, where thousands died in the…

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An Elegy to a Pluralistic, Polyglot India Wins Readers and Critics in the West

Geetanjali Shree’s prizewinning novel “Tomb of Sand” pushed the boundaries of experimental writing in Hindi and spotlighted the wealth of…

World

The World’s Biggest Democracy Is Jettisoning Freedom and Tolerance

When I moved to New Delhi in 2009 to work as a foreign correspondent, there was already a decade’s worth…

World

Mukarram Jah, Heir to an Opulent Throne He Abandoned, Dies at 89

He descended from famed Islamic royalty in India and Turkey, but later fled to Australia and became a sheep farmer.

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