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Independence is linked to freedom and is a meaningless word without it. A few years ago, I had surveyed the state of freedom in India as the world saw...
A mature democracy stays alive through informed civic participation, freedom of thought and respect for dissent. Resistance, therefore, is not an...
It was on expected lines. The takeaway from the Independence Day address by the prime minister: sab changa si. His government is in control and all...
Perhaps the most significant achievement of the recent Gen Z protest in Delhi is the breach it has opened in the climate of fear and submission....
The writing has been on the wall for quite some time, for all to see except perhaps the acolytes of the NDA government. India's falling...
Chief Justice of India Surya Kant has said his controversial remarks likening some young people to "cockroaches" were "misquoted"...
The US-Iran war has brought unending misery. The dust has barely settled, yet the conflict continues to stir new trouble. The US believes the world...
Saudi Arabia has spent decades preparing for a confrontation with Iran. It has purchased some of the world’s most advanced weapons from the West,...
A wit wryly defined democracy as ‘a rumour not yet disproved’. In our time, that’s indeed the case — in Chile, Russia, Nigeria, Egypt, the US,...
There was a remarkable exchange in the Delhi High Court this week. The government was asked why it was not considering shutting down the Jantar Mantar...
Most Respected Swamiji, May I seek your kind permission to apply for the post of Chief Executive Officer of the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra?...
The NEET paper leak may have triggered the recent student uprising but it would be a mistake to imagine the protests were mainly against the...
Now that we have an idea of what Mr Modi looks like at the stroke of the midnight hour, and have also learnt how to install a teleprompter on a mobile...
Wondering what decadence is? Many of us in Assam are wondering just that. When a death toll becomes just a statistic, is that a sign of decadence?...
After a long interval, the Cauvery has returned to the centre of southern India's political discourse with all the familiar ingredients of a...
There is a familiar pattern in today's India. First comes dissent. Then comes the investigation. Increasingly, what follows is not merely...
Bye-elections are usually inconsequential. They rarely change the arithmetic and never pose an existential threat to the government in power. The...
The BJP may have captured power in Bihar with a dodgy but resounding victory in this year's Assembly elections, but the Bankipur bypoll has...
On Friday, 31 July, Prime Minister Narendra Modi posted another late-night Instagram reel in which he assumed a paternalistic air to ‘forgive’ the...
On 28 July, while Benjamin Netanyahu was meeting Donald Trump behind closed doors in the White House, Israeli soldiers and settlers were storming...
'Go be the prime minister’, my dad would say every time I said something remotely critical of the government. ‘You can’t change anything...
The Reserve Bank of India’s latest Financial Stability Report is reassuring about the health of banks and non-banking finance companies. It is,...
It's not working. These days, everybody and his grandfather wants to live to be a hundred, even if it's in a hospital ICU. And if we...
The 'Mother of Democracy' is standing for a non-permanent elected seat at the United Nations Security Council. Non-permanent because it is a...
Was Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s first response to the Gen Z-led nationwide protests, demanding accountability for the repeated failures of the...
On 23 July, two days and a few hours after one of the darkest days independent India has seen, Neha Bora stood at Jantar Mantar to address a crowd of...
This went viral on Instagram. Shot on mobile cameras, here’s how the scene unfolds: a column of policemen advances, shields raised, lathis in hand....
In Indian politics, the spectacle often eclipses the substance. The aftermath of Dharmendra Pradhan’s resignation as Union education minister...
For more than a decade, Narendra Modi has mastered the politics of division. Whenever a protest threatened his government, the BJP assigned its...
Donald Trump has restarted America’s war against Iran without answering the question that should have been answered before the first bomb fell: what...
Many were puzzled by the size of the (now called off) protests and the speed with which they sprang up. To understand the environment that produced...
If you strolled past Delhi’s Jantar Mantar, Chandigarh’s Sector 17, or the historic lanes of Pune recently, you might be forgiven for thinking you...
Any game, or contract, is based on, and presupposes, mutually accepted rules which govern and bind the participants. Democracy is one such contract,...
Democracy and dialogue are married by definition and divorced by intention. Any ruling party at first ignores dissent, as if that does not and should...
Protests are awakenings. Whether for those who acknowledge the folly of their previous actions or those who think they are apolitical or even those...
On 20 July, Raisina Hill — the sleeping Goliath — was awakened by thousands of ‘cockroaches’ thumping the monster’s chest, demanding a...
The editor of this paper has asked me to reflect in this piece on three questions about the current protests. Did this movement give me hope? Do I...
I don’t remember exactly when the viral phenomenon of the Cockroach Janta Party first caught my attention. Of course, I had been following the NEET...
At Jantar Mantar in Delhi, young India has pitched camp. Students roll up their bedding at dawn. They sing, they argue, they nurse their bruises. They...
Lutyens’ Delhi is replete with hoardings that carry the prime minister’s beaming face, being congratulated for one thing or another. That grin is...
As the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra trust battles the gravest crisis of credibility since the Ayodhya Ram temple was inaugurated, it has...
Senior Congress leader Sonia Gandhi has accused the Narendra Modi government of responding to peaceful student protests over examination paper leaks...
In December 2025, the government ensured a 10-hour special debate in the Lok Sabha on the 150th anniversary of Vande Mataram, the extended version of...
It took weeks of sustained student protests and relentless pressure from the Opposition, both inside and outside Parliament, before Prime Minister...
While one set of students is being detained on the streets of Delhi for demanding accountability over the NEET-UG paper leak, another is being...
The controversy surrounding the NEET examination has become a symbol of a much deeper crisis within India's education system. While paper leaks...
The sudden announcement by Sheikh Hasina, living in exile in India since August 2024, that she plans to return to Bangladesh by the end of the year...
Nothing captures the mood in central Delhi on Monday, 20 July, better than this first-person account circulating on social media: “A sea of people,...
An overwhelming show of strength by Delhi Police marked Monday, 20 July when protestors had declared they would march to Parliament from Jantar...
With West Asia on the boil again after a fragile cessation of hostilities, the Gulf monarchies confront an uncomfortable truth. The old security order...
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