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Poorer Pakistan is not a competitor to India. So why does the Indian media seem obsessed with it?

A country with genuine confidence in its own direction does not need another country on its front page every morning.

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Dan qayyum

How social media reels about the LPG shortage obscure a harsh truth

As visibility and irony shape the experience of shortages, queues have turned into content.

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Joya john

The curious logic of the Transgender Persons Amendment Bill

The legislation recasts transgender persons as objects of suspicion instead of citizens with rights.

27.03.2026 10

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Swarupa Deb

Podcast: The East India Company and the politics of knowledge

In his recent book, Joshua Ehrlich presents a rich portrait of how scholars and scholarship played explicit political roles during the Company Raj.

26.03.2026 10

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Dinyar Patel

Ramachandra Guha: Of the three leaders at the heart of West Asia conflict, who is the most malign?

Evaluating the records of Iran’s Ali Khamenei, Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu and the US’s Donald Trump.

22.03.2026 20

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Ramachandra Guha

View from Dubai: Leaving is not an option when this is your home

Many in the city know that they were not part of its past, but believe that they have a place in its future.

21.03.2026 20

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Priyanka gupta zielinski

On the road in Bihar, a conversation reveals how prejudice is manufactured against India’s Muslims

The spread of selective information about the killing of a Hindu man in Delhi during Holi helped drive a wedge between communit

15.03.2026 20

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Apoorvanand

Video: Hate violence and Indian Christians

Why is the tide of hostility against the community rising?

13.03.2026 20

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Karwan E Mohabbat

Arson disguised as reportage: I&B ministry is right to suspend TRP system for India’s TV channels

The order points out that this ‘unwarranted sensationalism’ creates panic among those with family in conflict zones.

10.03.2026 20

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Bikram Vohra

After Epstein controversy, how should US philosopher Noam Chomsky’s ideas be judged?

Both those who believe his intellectual legacy is unshaken, as well as those who now question it would benefit from clarifying just what he stood for.

06.03.2026 20

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Arvind Rajagopal

Laurie and Elizabeth Baker: How a partnership helped build community

The Malayali doctor brought to their life together a cultural rootedness and moral steadiness that anchored British-born architect’s work in place.

02.03.2026 20

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John Kurien

Between celebration and humiliation: The exhausting existence of Indians from the North East

Filmmaker Lakshmipriya Devi’s win at the BAFTAs cannot be seen in isolation from the racial abuse heaped on three women from Arunachal Pradesh last...

26.02.2026 20

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Prithiraj Borah

Ramachandra Guha: The open-mindedness and liberalism that united André Béteille and Madhav Gadgil

A tribute to two mentors who passed away recently.

22.02.2026 40

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Ramachandra Guha

Why a Kerala bishop’s claims about a banned Islamist group is drawing criticism from Christians

Archbishop Andrew Thazhath of Kerala has drawn criticism from lay groups in Kerala for claiming in an interview last week that a banned Islamist group...

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John Dayal

Ramachandra Guha: Aggressive majoritarianism crippled Pakistan. Will India fare differently?

08.02.2026 20

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Ramachandra Guha

Counterview: Guru-shishya tradition did not kill critical thinking – we just forgot how it worked

01.02.2026 10

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Aakash Kembhavi

Ramachandra Guha: How the murder of trade union leader Shankar Guha Niyogi hurt India

25.01.2026 40

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Ramachandra Guha

Why making live events accessible for people with disabilities makes sense for everyone

24.01.2026 30

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Nipun Malhotra

Silence as citizenship: The burden of being a ‘Good Muslim’ in India

22.01.2026 30

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Rasheed Ahmed

Buildings integrated with solar technology can help India reduce construction emissions

17.01.2026 40

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Shabnam Bassi

Across South Asia, leaders are promoting hate to distract citizens from economic insecurity

16.01.2026 30

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Meenakshi Ganguly

Ramachandra Guha: Ruling Congress’s record in Karnakata is lacklustre – but it can still make amends

11.01.2026 20

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Ramachandra Guha

Ramachandra Guha: In praise of Dr Umar Khalid, from one historian to another

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Ramachandra Guha

‘Be with us again, in freedom, Sharjeel and Umar’: A JNU teacher’s message for her jailed students

06.01.2026 10

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Janaki Nair

Night safari plan in Lucknow reserve threatens gharials, other amphibian and reptile species

04.01.2026 20

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Shravya Shruti

Video: How the Mahatma Gandhi employment guarantee scheme has been dismantled

30.12.2025 10

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Karwan E Mohabbat

Ramachandra Guha: Gandhi, Lenin and the antidote to democratic backsliding

28.12.2025 40

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Ramachandra Guha

Readers’ comments: Tourists in Goa must tip service workers more generously

18.12.2025 10

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Bondi and beyond: Lessons from Kochi in a fractured world

17.12.2025 10

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Jael Silliman

As democracy backslides everywhere, the Global South must reimagine a new world order

15.12.2025 20

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Devyani Kacker

Ramachandra Guha: Lessons that my parents taught me, quietly and unselfconsciously

14.12.2025 20

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Ramachandra Guha

The lost art of getting lost: How smartphones messed up our mental maps

07.12.2025 10

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Zakir Kibria

Bangladesh: When will citizen rights matter as much as the majority’s ‘hurt religious sentiments’?

05.12.2025 10

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Mirza R Ahmad

How Osho taught Hindi to think

03.12.2025 10

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Krishna Kumar Pandey

Nellie and beyond: How inquiry commissions in India are used as political tools to hide the truth

29.11.2025 10

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Raheel Dhattiwala

Video: What does the Bihar result say about the electoral machinery in India?

27.11.2025 20

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Karwan E Mohabbat

We, the People: Why fraternity is the soul of the Indian Constitution

26.11.2025 10

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John Kurien

Readers comments: Just like India has gau shalas, we need dog shalas run on a PPP model

24.11.2025 10

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As Chief Justice of India BR Gavai retires, his legacy is a perpetuation of the status quo

24.11.2025 10

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Shourya Dasgupta

For India’s street dog debate, lessons from a mother in rural Rajasthan

20.11.2025 20

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Khinvraj Jangid

Ramachandra Guha: Notes for a play about a conversation between Nehru and Martin Luther King

16.11.2025 20

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Ramachandra Guha

The eggless brownie and the conundrum of cultural purity

16.11.2025 10

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Rosinka Chaudhuri

How to belong in Goa

15.11.2025 10

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Kaustubh Naik

Five lessons for India’s Opposition from Zohran Mamdani’s triumph

14.11.2025 20

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Harsh Mander And Amitanshu Verma

Podcast: Why Ireland’s Great Famine matters

13.11.2025 20

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Dinyar Patel

The Bihar paradox: How caste-based politics resulted in inclusion and unexpected social calm

05.11.2025 10

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Ashwani Kumar

Are students and activists being punished for invoking their faith in the Constitution?

30.10.2025 20

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Ghazala Jamil

The United Nations is 80. It has never been more fragile – or so necessary

24.10.2025 10

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Ashok Swain

Rejoinder: Ramachandra Guha has accepted Israel’s colonial framing of the Palestine conflict

23.10.2025 10

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Hussain Indorewala

Ramachandra Guha: Two writers whose thoughts on Palestine are worth recalling four decades later

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Ramachandra Guha