nationalism
The cost of conscience
Megha Majumdar’s novel depicts a world where progress requires bigotry.
Atul Bhattarai | Nov 10, 2020
Redefining citizenship in Pakistan
The PTM movement envisions an alternate relationship between citizen and state.
Hurmat Ali Shah | Apr 28, 2020
Is the mob ruling the roost?
JNU violence shows the fringe is at the Centre.
Salil Tripathi | Jan 07, 2020
Tibet: Impossible yet existent?
A reinvigorated spiritual politics of Tibetan Buddhism could prove to be a way forward.
Mila Samdub | Jan 07, 2020
From ‘Mother India’ to ‘Mission Mangal’
Homegrown technologies at the service of Indian nationalism in Hindi cinema.
Damini Kulkarni | Sep 18, 2019
A novel of thresholds
‘Basanti’ and writing the New Woman in Odia literary culture
S Deepika | May 22, 2019
Echoes of Pakistan in Indian polls
Frenzied use of communal card signals the weakening of democracy.
Pervez Hoodbhoy | May 06, 2019
Uniform hysteria
Following the suicide attack on security forces in Kashmir, India’s media went on a nationalist, fact-free overdrive.
Laxmi Murthy | Mar 07, 2019
Confessions of a war reporter
A reporter recollects the untold stories of the 1999 Kargil War.
Barkha Dutt | Mar 06, 2019
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