Abhilash Khandekar

CJP Must Remain as Watchdog

After forcing Dharmendra Pradhan’s resignation, the Cockroach Janata Party faces a defining choice: remain an independent citizens’ watchdog or risk losing its credibility by entering electoral politics. Minutes after Dharmendra...
Politics 
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Hurray! A Book Stalls Parliament

A retired general’s unpublished memoir has succeeded in briefly forcing India’s lawmakers to argue with ideas rather than one another. I love following Indian politics from close quarters, however dirty,...
Politics 
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Pollution Versus Tariffs

Gita Gopinath’s remark on pollution at Davos punctured India’s celebratory mood, exposing a far deadlier crisis than tariffs or trade wars. The recent World Economic Forum (WEF) at Davos was...
Foreign Affairs 
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Hindutva’s Weird Foot-Soldiers

A farcical censorship row at Bhopal’s lit fest shows how in trying to protect Hindutva from imagined enemies, its most overzealous foot-soldiers have embarrassed the very ideas they claimed to...
General 
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Why blame the speechless leopards?

Maharashtra’s leopard attacks are the bloodied consequence of unbridled urbanisation, where the appetite for ‘development’ has devoured habitats. The growing number of leopard attacks in ‘progressive’ Maharashtra should be a...
General 
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Two lakh deaths - but who cares?

India’s lethal air has become so routine that even mass mortality now struggles to provoke political urgency. India’s national capital is choking as it always does, under a winter blanket...
Ecology 
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