Rahul Rao

Rahul Rao is a Reader in International Political Thought at the University of St Andrews. He is the author, most recently, of ‘The Psychic Lives of Statues: Reckoning with the Rubble of Empire’ published by Pluto Press in 2025.

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A parade in Guwahati in support of Operation Sindoor, India’s strikes against Pakistan after the Pahalgam attack. Indian public discourse has narrowed to where it can envisage an end to terrorism only via the elimination of every last terrorist, even as the meaning of that term is indiscriminately expanded.

India’s complete surrender to war lust after Pahalgam

16 May 2025

Mihir Bose (left), the first non-white editor at the BBC, at the 1995 British Sports Journalism Awards in London. Bose’s memoir reiterates the idea that the British Empire is over and all that remains is the difficult task of acknowledging it; but a wave of new books shows that nothing could be further from the truth. Photo: Colorsport / Imago

The spectre of racialisation that haunts brown Britain

03 Jul 2024

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