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Bigoted Modernity
In their quest to appear radical, politicians like Makkal Needhi Maiyam leader and MP Kamal Haasan and NCP (SP) legislator Jitendra Awhad...
Correspondent
Aug 62 min read


Test Renaissance
For a format often dismissed as cricket’s quaint relic, the recently concluded five-Test series between India and England defied every...
Correspondent
Aug 52 min read


Dot Discord
For all their noisy lectures on diversity, many white Americans still recoil at the sight of a brown woman rising to power, especially...
Correspondent
Aug 42 min read


Judicial Spine
In a country where the politically connected too often evade the consequences of their crimes, the conviction of former MP Prajwal...
Correspondent
Aug 32 min read


Bogus Blame
In a damning indictment of the then Congress-led UPA’s counter-terrorism apparatus and its cynical politicisation of investigative...
Correspondent
Aug 12 min read


Trade Tantrum
Donald Trump has never been a fan of facts. But even by his standards, the latest salvo against India reeks of economic illiteracy,...
Correspondent
Jul 312 min read


Jet Lag
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has often prided himself, and has been rightly hailed by his supporters on being a decisive leader. In the...
Correspondent
Jul 302 min read


Mission Accomplished
There is a time for politics and a time for patriotism. After the gruesome Pahalgam massacre on April 22, where 26 innocent lives were...
Correspondent
Jul 292 min read


Devotion Deathtrap
It has happened again. Eight people dead and over thirty injured, trampled not by divine wrath but by administrative negligence and...
Correspondent
Jul 282 min read


Silicon Slum
In most countries, a glittering IT hub contributing over 60 percent of a state’s tech exports would be treated as sacred. But in...
Correspondent
Jul 272 min read


Trade Match
Prime Ministers Narendra Modi and Keir Starmer have shaken hands on a long-anticipated trade deal between India and Britain. It was not...
Correspondent
Jul 252 min read


Climate Justice
For decades, the legal scaffolding that might hold nations accountable for climate inaction has been weak, vague or simply non-existent....
Correspondent
Jul 242 min read


Imported Trouble
For a party that prides itself on discipline, hierarchy and ‘nationalist’ loyalty, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has a curious...
Correspondent
Jul 232 min read


Justice Undone
Few events in 21st-century India have matched the savagery of the 2006 Mumbai train bombings. In just eleven minutes, seven coordinated...
Correspondent
Jul 222 min read


Patriot Games
While sporting spectacles often try to paper over political fractures, the cancellation of the India-Pakistan clash at the World...
Correspondent
Jul 212 min read


Parrot Politics
In the charade of global politics, it is one thing for American President Donald Trump, the master of bombast, to blurt out trumped facts...
Correspondent
Jul 202 min read


Winged Casualties
A recent tree-trimming exercise at a residential society in a Thane suburb near Mumbai turned into a mass killing of birds. Workers hired...
Correspondent
Jul 182 min read


Truth Restored
For decades since Independence, India’s history textbooks have walked on eggshells by tiptoeing around uncomfortable truths, bowdlerising...
Correspondent
Jul 172 min read


Medal Muddle
In any half-decent country, Rahi Sarnobat would be hailed as a national treasure. But in India, she is treated like a supplicant....
Correspondent
Jul 162 min read


Cracking Down
Maharashtra’s move to bring drug-related crimes under the ambit of the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) is as bold as...
Correspondent
Jul 152 min read
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