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Rajmohan Gandhi’s ‘Patel: A Life’, now available in a new edition, is the most detailed study of the great freedom fighter and nation-builder.
It is becoming painfully evident that the ailment affecting Indian democracy is not one that a change in government can cure.
Satellite internet can connect the millions still offline. The question is not whether it comes but who controls it when it matters.
Significant effort is required to extract even basic accountability from the state.
Such an arbitrary policy will do little for women’s safety at the workplace and relies on cultural stereotypes about an ‘unsafe’ north India.
No one who is concerned with building a just society can afford to ignore Christa Pike – not even if they live in another country.
More than any other field, it is classical music where Hindus and Muslims have lived, worked, laboured and created together.
However, he died a mere seven weeks later, leaving unwritten the books he had planned on making the religion ‘respectable to the masses of the...
As Indian students are forced to view medieval history through a polarised lens, the country’s democratic fabric faces a deep philosophical crisis.
The court must consider what legal power permits the state to prevent a protest before it has begun and what evidence is required to justify using it.
Their strategy is to make citizens more afraid of the enemy than angry with the government that failed them.
He pressed for equal rights for Dalits, women and minorities, an economic model that is equitable and sustainable, and the cultivation of...
India’s police manuals demand restraint and the bare minimum of force. So why do crackdowns from Jantar Mantar to Aarey Colony turn brutal?
The weakness of such comparisons is becoming increasingly apparent as more Indians travel to Dubai, Vietnam and even Sri Lanka.
How can citizens secure their right to peaceful protest?
The RHA Reservation Reforms Movement wants to shrink protections where disadvantaged groups have gained a toehold and shield the private economy from...
‘Feminism means each of us finding our unique power, and helping other women do the same,’ Steinem wrote about Parton.
A short history of student movements, from the swadeshi agitation in Bengal to the Cockroach Janta Party-led protests.
Should Narendra Modi or Amit Shah seriously engage with the Vedas in search of validation for their Hindutva project, they may find themselves...
A portion of the old Sion railway station, on the original Bombay-Thane line of the Great Indian Peninsula Railway, is being dismantled.
He was was one of several prabasi Bengali intellectuals who helped make Delhi University the foremost academic institution in all of South Asia.
Gen Z movements are swift and successful but struggle to do the slow work of institutional transformation.
A country confident in its institutions does not need to fear every dissenting idea. It can allow the argument to take place and trust its citizens to...
Decades of policy choices neglecting human development, especially education, are coming home to roost.
Rampant mining and deforestation have shaken the very core of the region’s fragile ecologies.
While broligarchy may be taking over the world, left-pro-bros closer home work hard to protect each other.
A licence to practise law cannot be a leash that stretches back into the classroom.
Those opposed to the majoritarianism and authoritarianism of the Modi regime are accused of being members of a ‘tukde-tukde gang’.
The only relevant question is whether the law enforcers exercised their authority in a manner consistent with the values of a constitutional...
Dressing the national team in the signature colour of the BJP-RSS cloaks the squads in a shade freighted with politics and sectarianism.
A discussion moderated by author and activist Harsh Mander.
Once an FIR is registered, its fate is governed by investigation, prosecutorial judgment and judicial scrutiny, not by an executive announcement.
Student leaders tell Harsh Mander about the growing sense of betrayal among India’s students.
A key factor in including India on the Civicus watchlist is the continued judicial persecution of human rights defenders and protest leaders.
The response to movement exposes the cost of allowing legitimate caution to become a substitute for civic engagement.
The jokes represent a shift in where political communication begins: among protesters themselves, before it reaches those in power.
In Britain, from where India borrowed its system of government, the party and the cabinet still provide enviably robust guardrails of institutional...
The Modi-Shah government has displayed arrogant contempt for the democratic rights of the people of the region.
A parliament that does not adequately represent disagreement cannot expect citizens to confine their democratic frustrations within its walls.
Would that spell an end to Modi’s troubles?
If more husbands were like Virginia Woolf’s husband, the world would be a much happier place.
The eerie resonances of ‘Main Vaapas Aaunga’.
Walking is the most common mode of transport in cities. Yet pedestrians receive the least attention in urban planning and public investment.
The US military has dropped ‘Indo’ from the name of its Pacific command. Should India make Atlantic lemonade from a Pacific lemon?
Nehru created the specialised cadre in 1954 to administer the North East Frontier Agency, as present-day Arunachal Pradesh was known at the time.
The country’s two most powerful men are obsessed with expanding their political power. Strengthening the economic security of all Indians is not a...
The future of humanity depends on cooperating with others to form larger movements of change towards a common cause that all care about.
The country’s economic challenge is not a shortage of optimism. It is a shortage of institutional imagination.
The future of the habitable world will not be written exclusively in the halls of parliaments but in the micro-decisions of the millions who inhabit...
The order invokes fraternity as a constitutional idea linked to apology, pedagogy, and social reform. But could it weaken enforcement of the...
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