Lasting stability in Kashmir hinges on political inclusion, not suppression. More crackdowns and more alienation in Kashmir may satisfy Modi’s core support base, but it ensures only cyclical violence ...

THE INDIAN STATE has become defiantly lawless in pursuit of its open hostility against a section of its citizens. Since 2019, bulldozers have evolved into a marker of this celebratory state ...

Ever the news itself, Republic TV recently hit the headlines after Arnab Goswami, its owner and star anchor, was arrested by the Maharashtra Police, in early November. Goswami was arrested in ...

“THE FUNDAMENTAL NATURE of government is a platform,” the tech billionaire Nandan Nilekani declared in the 2015 book Rebooting India: Realizing a Billion Aspirations, which he co-authored with the ...

IN DECEMBER 1994, MK Dhar, the joint director of the Intelligence Bureau, was travelling with Vijaya Rama Rao, the director of the Central Bureau of Investigation, on a special flight from Delhi to ...

AKSHAY KUMAR loves India. He really does. He has said so in his movies, in his advertisements and in his tweets. In March 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic brought the country to its knees, and the actor ...

THE FIRST FEW PAGES of Jotirao Phule’s Gulamgiri or Slavery, published in 1873 and widely considered to be his most important text, opens with a dedication to “the good people of the United States as ...

The COVID-19 crisis has been punctuated by frequent protests from healthcare workers—most often nurses and ASHA workers—complaining about unacceptable working conditions, inadequate staffing, low ...

THE DOGRA REGIMENTAL CENTRE in Faizabad Cantonment—now renamed Ayodhya Cantonment—is a few kilometres from where the Babri Masjid stood until a Hindu mob demolished it, in December 1992. In 2022, the ...

At around 11 pm on 24 February, close to two hundred men, wielding sticks and waving saffron flags, blocked all traffic at the Babarpur junction on the Maujpur road of northeast Delhi. Many of them ...

A GROUP OF AROUND TEN PEOPLE arrived outside the Hyatt Regency in Ahmedabad early in the morning of 14 February 2016. Chanting “Jai Shri Ram” and “Shah Rukh Khan hai hai,” they threw stones into the ...

AS IT BECAME CLEAR that Donald Trump had been ousted and Joe Biden was to be the next president of the United States, Anant Goenka tweeted, I hope after Biden’s victory, American news media takes time ...