The journalist and writer Zeyad Masroor Khan talks to Harsh Mander about his childhood in Aligarh and the deepening communal divisions in present-day India
The Bharatiya Janata Party’s unprecedented electoral victory in West Bengal exposes the deep Bengali roots of Hindu nationalism and shatters the myth of secular bhadralok liberalism
Two journalists detained in the Maldives, India hosts BRICS foreign minister summit, Pakistan denies allowing Iranian military aircraft to park during negotiations and more
The most influential Indian journalist of his era, Arun Shourie traded repute as a leftist dissident to shape the intellectual scaffolding of the Hindu Right – and took much of the country’s elite with him
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
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
As vehicles for Hindu Right ideology and pro-Modi propaganda, ‘Dhurandhar’ and ‘Dhurandhar: The Revenge’ first blur the lines of reality before overtly glorifying anti-Muslim violence
