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In Banu Mushtaq and Deepa Bhasthi's Booker win, an affirmation for stories from the margins

22.05.2025 20

Indian Express

Pulapre Balakrishnan

Killing of top Maoist leader in Chhattisgarh: A turning point

22.05.2025 10

Indian Express

Pulapre Balakrishnan

Ban on chess in Afghanistan: Only the brave may play

22.05.2025 10

Indian Express

Pulapre Balakrishnan

Ashoka University professor Ali Khan Mahmudabad has moral ambition and courage. Ashoka University does not

21.05.2025 10

Indian Express

Pulapre Balakrishnan

Why criticism over the Nehru-led economy doesn’t hold

For sure, Nehru could have done more, but he did quicken a moribund economy, a historic achievement without which there could not have been much...

07.01.2025 4

Indian Express

Pulapre Balakrishnan

Pressuring the RBI to lower the interest rate isn’t going to solve the problem

While the government appears to be concerned about stagnant growth rates, it would be wrong to assume that the central bank can lead the change by...

12.12.2024 6

Indian Express

Pulapre Balakrishnan

Express view on Judge Shekhar Kumar Yadav's comments: A dangerous precedent

A slap on the wrist from the Supreme Court will not be enough. It is the judiciary arm’s responsibility to protect all groups - especially those...

12.12.2024 10

Indian Express

Pulapre Balakrishnan

The Third edit: ‘Word of the Year’ -- dictionaries fight for relevance

We live in a time where social media deems phenomenons worthy of global attention. Can a year-ending dictionary report compete with this?

12.12.2024 3

Indian Express

Pulapre Balakrishnan

Express view on Foreign Secretary's Bangladesh visit: Reaching out to Dhaka

It was important to put Delhi’s concerns over minority rights on the side during the meeting - this is the first of many steps that has to be taken...

12.12.2024 5

Indian Express

Pulapre Balakrishnan

Pressuring the RBI to lower the interest rate isn’t going to solve the problem

While the government appears to be concerned about stagnant growth rates, it would be wrong to assume that the central bank can lead the change by...

12.12.2024 6

Indian Express

Pulapre Balakrishnan

Hema Committee report shows why ambit of social justice must be widened to include women

The guillotine has fallen again in Kerala. The first time it fell was on landlordism in 1956, when the government of EMS Namboodiripad legislated...

24.09.2024 10

Indian Express

Pulapre Balakrishnan

Wayanad, the Political Economy of an Ecological Catastrophe

The devastating landslides in Wayanad, occurring in the early hours on July 30, may have come as a shock but it cannot be said that they came as a...

06.08.2024 3

The Wire

Pulapre Balakrishnan

This attempt to keep outsiders out of employment opportunities in Karnataka fails to acknowledge their role in contributing to its rise

There is something of an island mentality in the act of drawing up a bill that introduces an employment quota for domiciles of Karnataka. To be...

30.07.2024 10

Indian Express

Pulapre Balakrishnan