A Life Lived In The Historical Present

Romila Thapar has seen India evolve from an imperial colony into a nation under construction, which is now in a phase of performative destruction. It would have made a lesser intellect cynical, but her life and her work have always kindled hope.

The Barbarians At The Gate

The Cockroaches At The Gate

There are too many hopes riding on India’s youngest movement ever for it to remain in the realm of memes

Preemptive Surrender: The Fine Art Of Swallowing Your Own Words

Self-censorship is cowardice dressed up as prudence — and grotesquely, the censor and the censored are the same person. Joe Sacco’s experience with Penguin India is the latest iteration of an old story

‘And I See The Mirrored World’

‘Gonna try with a little help from my friends’

Olympic Village, Potemkin Village And The Crisis Of Confidence In Education

Middle class people rely on education to better their children’s prospects, and they are frustrated as governments bend schools and universities to their own political purposes

Empty Diplomatic Optics Define Modi’s Damaged Partnership With Trump 2.0

MAGA immigration politics have eaten away at the foundations of the India-US relationship, and Rubio’s visit revealed that the two nations can’t even agree that a problem exists ― a problem which could change the strategic balance in the Indo-Pacific and leave India adrift in a volatile world

Why Modi Keeps Winning, And What Could End The Winning Streak

The BJP’s Bengal earthquake did not only defeat Mamata Banerjee, it also buried the last credible theory of how to beat Narendra Modi with yesterday’s tools. What’s needed now is not a better opposition party, it is a fundamentally different political imagination

Go To Bangladesh!

The harassment, detention and deportation of Bengali-speaking migrant workers in India is the first step towards defining a new stateless population in South Asia.