Author: Aarti Tikoo

In a no holds barred interview with The New Indian’s Editor-in-Chief Aarti Tikoo, Prof. Meenakshi Jain answers the biggest controversial questions about the historians accused of white-washing facts and selective reading of Indian history. Jain explains why she remained an isolated voice among historians for challenging their unscholarly approach to history writing and education in […]

Varanasi: Arrayed in their bright colorful sarees, young and middle aged women stretch themselves on barbell benches and elliptical trainers, and every now and then, they giggle and chatter away. In an open gym in the midst of a brimming market of Varanasi, women say, they are now far more health conscious than they have […]

LUCKNOW: Even as a thousand illegal slaughterhouses have been shut down by the Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh, beef (buffalo) kababs made by Tunday Kababi are selling like hot cakes. In 2017, after the BJP came to power in UP, CM Yogi Adityanath imposed a ban on cow smuggling and illegal slaughterhouses. The ban […]

An Indian-American computer scientist, a philosopher, a historian and a mathematician, Padma Shri Dr Subhash Kak is known for his contributions to maths, philosophy, computer science and astronomy of ancient India. In an exclusive interview with our Editor-in-Chief Aarti Tikoo, he explains why India holds the key to the questions of artificial intelligence, consciousness and […]

Uday Mahurkar’s latest book, ‘Veer Savarkar: The Man Who Could Have Prevented Partition’ may be one of the most challenging works in Indian writing that attempts to decode multidimensional personality of Savarakar. Presently in office as India’s Information Commissioner, we discuss the book and beyond, with this veteran journalist, columnist, and author in our Book […]

Eric Zemmour, a journalist, author and essayist, is being seen as a disrupter in French politics, challenging all mainstream political narratives and ideologies. In the last few months, he had been drawing hordes of admirers for his latest book on French history and politics, triggering speculations that he would take a plunge in the upcoming […]

EXCLUSIVE: Twitter’s ‘Spaces’ forum on Saturday night saw a surprising closed room discussion on topics revolving around strategies to perpetrate terror and violence against Indian Muslims and security forces in Kashmir. The closed ‘spaces’ discussion was held by hosts and speakers from across different countries. A screen recording of the discussion, that surfaced online, points towards an uncharitable discussion, […]

The past one and a half year has seen a big paradigm shift in the markets. The economic impact of the pandemic has been huge, affecting small and strong economics alike. Just how badly has India been impacted? Were we able to shield the big blow? What about the China effect on world economics? The […]

A non-resident Indian citizen based in Paris, Akshay Bakaya has been teaching Hindi for the last 30 years to French and other foreign nationals, many of whom have made a name for themselves in diplomacy, academia and classical arts. In other words, he has been a vehicle of India’s soft power in France. He spoke to Aarti […]

Students were seen celebrating Pakistan victory against India in T20 World Cup Match played in Dubai.