Narendra Modi’s two-day visit to Japan comes at a moment of unusual strain in India’s relations with America. Donald Trump’s announcement...

After daily headlines of assaults, harassment and grim reminders of how unsafe Indian cities can be for women, Mumbai has finally found...

In recent years, few political issues in Maharashtra have been as combustible as the Maratha quota issue. The aggressive face of this...

In the face of mounting American pressure, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has drawn a clear line by refusing to barter away India’s...

Ganeshotsav is here. For ten days, Lord Ganesha, remover of obstacles, will be welcomed into homes and neighbourhood pandals across...

India has often been accused of neglecting its own intellectual inheritance in favour of borrowed canons. Now, the University Grants...

It has been a year since Badlapur was convulsed by the Akshay Shinde case, a chilling reminder of how vulnerable children remain even in...

India has long flirted with the idea of regulating online gaming. For years, the industry has grown in a regulatory grey zone, as state...

The Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS) has long basked in a halo of scholarly prestige. Its Lokniti surveys, dutifully...

For Mumbai, the monsoon is less a season than a recurring humiliation. Each year, torrents of rain descend on India’s financial capital....

India’s self-styled knight of democracy has mounted yet another spectacle. Rahul Gandhi, heir to the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty and reluctant...

The monsoon, once seen as a seasonal blessing, is fast turning into an annual reckoning. In Jammu’s Kathua district, a sudden cloudburst...

Ireland likes to think of itself as a land of  céad míle fáilte  or ‘a hundred thousand welcomes.’ However, in the past few months, a...

Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has long cultivated an image of decisiveness, of being someone who is firm in resolve. Yet...

The Maharashtra government has trumpeted the acquisition of 18th C. Maratha leader Raghuji Bhosale’s sword from a London auction house as...

For a country that styles itself the world’s largest democracy, India certainly needs a robust Opposition. In theory, the coming together...

Sharad Pawar’s political career has been a half-century masterclass in Machiavellian manoeuvre, opportunistic alliance-making, and...

On the battlefield, India’s armed forces often emerge triumphant. In the skies over the subcontinent during Operation Sindoor, the Indian...

If there is one thing more exhausting than Donald Trump’s tantrums, it is America’s staggering capacity for hypocrisy. In slapping a 50...

In their quest to appear radical, politicians like Makkal Needhi Maiyam leader and MP Kamal Haasan and NCP (SP) legislator Jitendra Awhad...