NCERT's new Grade 7 Social Science textbook, developed under NEP 2020, offers a pan-Indian perspective on early medieval history, moving beyond a North-centric view to include kingdoms, thinkers, and ...

Alexandra Jacobs, Jennifer Szalai and Dwight Garner look back at the books that, as Jacobs writes, “bonked me on the head this year.” Our critic A.O. Scott feels the heat of a wintry lyric by the ...