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In Indian politics, the spectacle often eclipses the substance. The aftermath of Dharmendra Pradhan’s resignation as Union education minister...
For more than a decade, Narendra Modi has mastered the politics of division. Whenever a protest threatened his government, the BJP assigned its...
Donald Trump has restarted America’s war against Iran without answering the question that should have been answered before the first bomb fell: what...
Many were puzzled by the size of the (now called off) protests and the speed with which they sprang up. To understand the environment that produced...
If you strolled past Delhi’s Jantar Mantar, Chandigarh’s Sector 17, or the historic lanes of Pune recently, you might be forgiven for thinking you...
Any game, or contract, is based on, and presupposes, mutually accepted rules which govern and bind the participants. Democracy is one such contract,...
Democracy and dialogue are married by definition and divorced by intention. Any ruling party at first ignores dissent, as if that does not and should...
Protests are awakenings. Whether for those who acknowledge the folly of their previous actions or those who think they are apolitical or even those...
On 20 July, Raisina Hill — the sleeping Goliath — was awakened by thousands of ‘cockroaches’ thumping the monster’s chest, demanding a...
The editor of this paper has asked me to reflect in this piece on three questions about the current protests. Did this movement give me hope? Do I...
I don’t remember exactly when the viral phenomenon of the Cockroach Janta Party first caught my attention. Of course, I had been following the NEET...
At Jantar Mantar in Delhi, young India has pitched camp. Students roll up their bedding at dawn. They sing, they argue, they nurse their bruises. They...
Lutyens’ Delhi is replete with hoardings that carry the prime minister’s beaming face, being congratulated for one thing or another. That grin is...
As the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra trust battles the gravest crisis of credibility since the Ayodhya Ram temple was inaugurated, it has...
Senior Congress leader Sonia Gandhi has accused the Narendra Modi government of responding to peaceful student protests over examination paper leaks...
In December 2025, the government ensured a 10-hour special debate in the Lok Sabha on the 150th anniversary of Vande Mataram, the extended version of...
It took weeks of sustained student protests and relentless pressure from the Opposition, both inside and outside Parliament, before Prime Minister...
While one set of students is being detained on the streets of Delhi for demanding accountability over the NEET-UG paper leak, another is being...
The controversy surrounding the NEET examination has become a symbol of a much deeper crisis within India's education system. While paper leaks...
The sudden announcement by Sheikh Hasina, living in exile in India since August 2024, that she plans to return to Bangladesh by the end of the year...
Nothing captures the mood in central Delhi on Monday, 20 July, better than this first-person account circulating on social media: “A sea of people,...
An overwhelming show of strength by Delhi Police marked Monday, 20 July when protestors had declared they would march to Parliament from Jantar...
With West Asia on the boil again after a fragile cessation of hostilities, the Gulf monarchies confront an uncomfortable truth. The old security order...
Even as the ministry of external affairs tries to make up its mind about the Indian passport, what it is and isn’t, whether it is proof of Indian...
It was indeed a wise man who said judges should shun the spotlight and let their judgments do the talking. But that was before the era of the sound...
The Supreme Court deserves appreciation for its imaginative initiative christened SAMADHAN — Supreme Court Action for Mediated Adjudication and...
A few thoughts on the Cockroach Janata Party's protest come to mind. The hunger strike by activists, including Sonam Wangchuk, had one demand:...
The demand that prompted the Youth Congress march led by Mamata Banerjee, then heading the party's state youth unit, on 21 July 1993 in what was...
India’s E20 (20 per cent ethanol-blended petrol) policy is being projected as a triumph. Achieved ahead of the original 2030 target, the...
The recent rejection of my Rajya Sabha nomination gave me food for thought. Resistance cannot be just external, I thought — it must stem from an...
The Rampur Development Authority's order directing the demolition of 38 of the 40 buildings at Mohammad Ali Jauhar University is far more than a...
The history of Indian democracy is not merely the history of elections. It is equally a history of dissent, resistance and moral intervention. Among...
Sonam Wangchuk’s indefinite fast has entered its 19th day. He remains steadfast in his demand for the resignation of Union education minister...
A reported exodus of nearly 100 scientists from the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) over the past few months, first reported by the Times...
India finds itself cornered as the war in the Middle East threatens to spin out of control. Strategic analyst Trita Parsi points out that India has...
There was a time when Indian capitalism was narrated as a story of liberalisation. The 1991 reforms dismantled the old licence/permit raj and promised...
On 27 June, marked as National MSME Day, a wave of lavish tributes canonised small businesses as the ‘backbone’ of employment, industrial...
The Supreme Court’s recognition of the right to walk on safe, demarcated footpaths as a fundamental right is a landmark ruling on the safety of...
On a humid Sunday morning, just before heavy rain drowned Mumbai, Uddhav Thackeray stood before his party workers and supporters, reciting the Ram...
When the lights dim in a cinema hall, audiences prepare to willingly surrender to a story. The darkness invites us to enter a realm of imagination,...
One common trait in lawless nations is high levels of anxiety against arbitrariness. Medieval texts tell us this has always been the case in our...
Census 2027 has got underway six years late and is shadowed by an unusual level of public unease. It is India’s first digital census, which the...
I am a happy man these days, or at least as happy as anyone can be in this Ram Rajya, where even 1,600 CCTVs and 400 security guards could not prevent...
Barely two-and-a-half years after it was thrown open to devotees in January 2024, the Ram Mandir in Ayodhya is at the centre of a financial scandal....
For years, the Left struggled to remain politically relevant in West Bengal as the state's contest became increasingly bipolar, with the...
India’s policy towards Bangladesh remains mired in pushing back supposed illegal migrants or raising the bogey of Jamaat consolidation along the...
One of the most striking features of contemporary Indian politics is not merely the consolidation of Narendra Modi’s power and the Hindutva project,...
There are moments in history when wars change far more than borders. They alter the architecture of international politics. The Iran War may...
Not even the BJP expected its thumping victory in West Bengal. But pleasantly surprised, they scampered off to get some ministers and supporting...
T.S. Eliot dubbed April 'the cruellest month' in one of his poems. I am sure he had his reasons for doing so, but it does reveal that he was...
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