Politics

Composite image of Narendra Modi, India's constitution with a crack running across it, Indira Gandhi, Geeta Mukherji, Annie Raja, Ambedkar and Vajpayee, juxtaposed with women voting, and the RSS Mohan Bhagwat on the right, all laid over an image of India's parliament.  
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Shweta Desai
Halfway through the Narendra Modi government’s third term, the BJP has amped up efforts to gain a two-thirds majority in the Indian parliament and open the door to drastic constitutional change
Himal Interviews: Rahul Bhatia on Aadhaar, the RSS and India’s democratic unravelling
A conversation with the award-winning writer and journalist on the surprising origins of Aadhaar, the afterlives of the 2020 Delhi violence, and the people still resisting India’s majoritarian turn
A regular among India’s literati, the novelist and commentator Manu Joseph thrives on elite access, simultaneously courting and critiquing the liberal circles whose attention he commands.
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Diya Isha
How Manu Joseph’s ‘Why the Poor Don’t Kill Us’ falls short in diagnosing the ills of liberal India, and how the novelist turned provocateur has lost his way
Himal Interviews: The pluralism and poetry of India’s past
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The Editors
The educationist, writer and activist Syeda Hameed remembers the first decade of free India as one of immense hope in this conversation with Harsh Mander
Himal Interviews: Anand Teltumbde on B R Ambedkar and the limits of iconisation
In a conversation on his new book 'Iconoclast', Anand Teltumbde challenges the hagiography surrounding B R Ambedkar, calling for a more nuanced reassessment in view of the ongoing oppression of Dalits ...
A schoolboy wearing a face mask and uniform walks past a colourful Sinhala-language mural featuring illustrated students.
Angela W Little’s book spans the original vision and contemporary debates around Sri Lanka’s system of free education, but fails to fully capture its intertwined dynamics of learning, politics and nat ...
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