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The cost of conscience

Megha Majumdar’s novel depicts a world where progress requires bigotry.

| Nov 10, 2020

A collective madness

What Modi's victory says about today's India.

| May 27, 2019

‘Dissolve the people and elect another’

Kashmir local government elections belie the Indian state’s narrative of democracy.

Caging the canary

Raids and arrests in India exhibit intolerance of dissent.

| Sep 04, 2018

Something rotten

A recent book explores the systemic rot that holds India to ransom.

| Feb 28, 2017

A tale of two mosques

Recent anniversaries have marked the demolition of two mosques, one very well known, and the other, much less so.

| Dec 06, 2016

The logic of Ramdev

The guru-politico comes with an idiom that the powerbrokers of New Delhi fail to understand, but which could yet change the contours of politics.

| Oct 08, 2016

Whose media is it anyway?

Real freedom of expression is eroding fast in India.

| Sep 21, 2016

Of Eco and echoes

Silencing of the argumentative Indian.

| Sep 17, 2016

Believers’ Dilemma – II

Never before has the RSS been more confident of its role in shaping India’s future. (This is part two of a two-part essay)

| Jun 03, 2016

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