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Attacks on Bengali Christians and their churches have begun in the wake of the BJP's victory in West Bengal. Last week, a group of us led by...
Even as global tourism continues its relentless growth (1.52 billion in 2025 and growing at 4 per cent per annum), opposition to its environmental,...
Ten years ago, Indians were asked to surrender the use of their own money with just four hours' notice. It was a shock-and-awe operation. At 8.00...
"Our economy is broken. Our politics are broken. Even our relationships with each other feel broken. That’s because the most powerful people in...
How many newspapers and magazines have lost their registration across India in the past year? According to the Union Ministry of Information and...
Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu launched their war against Iran believing that overwhelming military power could achieve what decades of...
The results of the US midterm elections have been dramatic. Everybody expected the Democrats to win a majority in the House, but nobody anticipated...
The Supreme Court on Monday, 2 November, agreed to hear a petition challenging the Enforcement Directorate’s (ED) decision to arrest Samajwadi Party...
Democrats have an edge in the race for the House, while control of the Senate remains uncertain. Democrats have an edge in the race for the House,...
My thesis is that the Indian state under Hindutva is incompletely communal. I have written about this before, but the principal argument is that...
Time has come full circle. The players have changed, but the ground remains the same. Ramlila Maidan, once the epicentre of the anti-corruption...
On Tuesday, 27 October, the Supreme Court issued a notice to the Centre on a petition from 21 news publishers, including companies owned by Mukesh...
Narendra Modi’s nationalism comes with skewed sonic boom: louder towards Pakistan and Bangladesh; quieter towards China. Chest-thumping with...
When ECINet absorbed ERONet and amalgamated 40 other apps, the alarm bells hadn’t yet rung. When investigative reports revealed the extent of...
An Uber driver says he works longer hours than before, yet takes home less money. After fuel, maintenance, loan instalments and the platform’s...
The more discerning among my readers would have noticed that in India, the flavours of the season change with, well, the season. In July, it was the...
There is evidence to prove that successive governments headed by the BJD and now the BJP, have fraudulently manufactured consent of tribals for...
Can electoral integrity be secured only through intensive revision of voter lists? Other democracies suggest that continuous updating, automatic...
Student List wins a parliamentary majority in Serbia after two years of anti-corruption protests. Student List wins a parliamentary majority in Serbia...
India wins a record 114 medals, including 30 gold, at the Para Asian Games. India wins a record 114 medals, including 30 gold, at the Para Asian...
Connoisseurs of humour know that all genuine humour is underlaid with wisdom, which provides the actual punch. And so it was that, when I read the...
A couple of days after the government made sure we couldn’t reach Jantar Mantar, my sister sent me a video game in which I could try to get there....
“Boitake noshto koro na, bhai (don’t destroy the book, brother)”. You may have seen a video reel from West Bengal’s Barasat during this Durga...
Punjab has seen many killings — perhaps never watched one live. On 13 October, at around 9.15 a.m. Parvinder Singh ‘Jhota’ walked into a...
Next week, on 3 November, America will hold its midterm elections. They are so called because they are held in the middle of a president’s four-year...
The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) concluded its centenary celebrations on Dussehra, 20 October. At home, the year-long jamboree saw a national...
On 19 October, a century-old mosque, a short walk from the prime minister’s residence, was given six days to vacate. Water and electricity had...
It’s fairly common knowledge that Narendra Modi’s frequent trips abroad are less about diplomacy and more about staging diaspora jamborees to...
US secretary of state Marco Rubio was in India 20–22 October. Not in Delhi, though. Evidently, meeting his counterpart, Indian external affairs...
The three democratic tools available to us are vote, court and protest. The only one on which Indians have true agency is protest. Voting is...
In a referendum held in 2016, Britain voted by a small margin to exit the European Union. As expected, the move lowered trade growth and trade...
The continued silence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union home minister Amit Shah on Manipur has baffled everyone. Both Meitei and Kukis feel...
More than six decades ago, when I was a schoolboy at Pathanamthitta in Kerala, an elderly man had made protest a part of his daily routine. Every...
Rahul Gandhi’s emergence as the great new hope of Indian politics is often misrepresented as the arrival of ‘a new Rahul Gandhi’. That...
The October protests in Delhi began as a demand for electoral accountability. But they have since become inseparable from the not-so-sudden but rather...
I sit by my window at that hour when darkness yields to the certainty of the sun. My knees and back hurt as I answer what I hope is my last distress...
The Chief Justice of India refused to meet the Leader of the Opposition on the 12th of this month and hear his grievances, even though one of his...
Ukraine’s Starshield disruption highlights the security risks of relying on foreign-controlled satellite communications. Ukraine’s Starshield...
Over the last two years, we have felt the ground shift beneath our feet in higher education. AI has transformed what we do in college classrooms. The...
Saudi Arabia’s decision on 5 October to activate the Makkah defence pact reveals how precarious its security has become. In the Houthis, it faces an...
As I find it a little more difficult to get out of bed each succeeding autumn morning, my mind (what’s left of it, that is) inevitably wanders to...
On 5 March 2021, the Press Information Bureau of the Indian government put out a statement headlined: ‘Rebuttal to Freedom House report on India’s...
There is an interesting story about Amit Shah’s first election victory, narrated by journalist Rajdeep Sardesai in his book 2024: The Election That...
The 1960s were the decade of rage in Calcutta. Naxalite violence had reached the city. Not a day passed without multiple processions choking the...
Never before has the country seen public protests on Gandhi Jayanti the way we did this year. As a pithy social media meme put it, 2 October is the...
Can protests bring about change? I have faced this question again and again over the past three months, especially since July, when young Indians from...
Kerala has ordered a fresh Vigilance probe into allegations dating back to Gyanesh Kumar’s tenure as PWD secretary in 2006....
The report argues that opposition unity requires rallying around Rahul Gandhi and the Congress, which it describes as the only opposition force with a...
A new war is gathering momentum in Ethiopia, with repercussions far beyond its borders. Federal troops are fighting Tigrayan forces as a seven-member...
Ahead of Durga Puja, one of the most eagerly-awaited movements across the Bangladesh-India border has been stalled. Bangladesh has not authorised its...
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