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How Osho taught Hindi to think

When Wild Wild Country came out on Netflix in 2018, Acharya Rajneesh – or Osho, as he came to be known – was, in many ways, exiled twice over. For...

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Krishna Kumar Pandey

Nellie and beyond: How inquiry commissions in India are used as political tools to hide the truth

The Nellie massacre of 1983 is in the news after four decades. The careful exercise that went into forgetting and moving on from the killings of...

29.11.2025 30

Raheel Dhattiwala

Video: What does the Bihar result say about the electoral machinery in India?

In this episode of Karwan e Mohabbat’s series on the state of the republic features author and activist Harsh Mander in conversation with political...

27.11.2025 2

Karwan E Mohabbat

We, the People: Why fraternity is the soul of the Indian Constitution

On November 26, 1949, we, the people of India, gave ourselves a Constitution. Its Preamble, that majestic opening statement, is more than a preface....

26.11.2025 2

John Kurien

Readers comments: Just like India has gau shalas, we need dog shalas run on a PPP model

We have had dogs at home for three generations now. (For India’s street dog debate, lessons from a mother in rural Rajasthan.) This story has a...

24.11.2025 2

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As Chief Justice of India BR Gavai retires, his legacy is a perpetuation of the status quo

When Bhushan Ramkrishna Gavai assumed office as the 52nd chief justice of India on May 14, expectations ran high. Only the second Dalit to rise to...