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
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
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 conversation with the renowned Indologist on how myths endure across cultures and traditions, why they resist fixed meanings, and what is at stake in attempts to control them
New Delhi continues to expect deference from Dhaka, but Tarique Rahman’s BNP administration has a stronger position in negotiations with India than previous Bangladesh governments
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
