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Cover Story | 2025 New Year Issue: History

The Colonial Conundrum

TCA Raghavan
TCA Raghavan

What should we call the spread of Indian civilisation in Southeast Asia?

A Ramayana performance at Ubud Palace (Puri Saren) in Bali, Indonesia
| In Memoriam

Shyam Benegal (1934-2024): The Gentleman Artist

Kaveree Bamzai

Shyambabu always had a story to tell, and an audience to tell it to

A New Reel
| 2025 New Year Issue

Editor’s Note

S Prasannarajan

India's story is too big to be left to rejectionists or cheerleaders

The Great Clown (Juggler), artist proof by Krishna Reddy
The Power of Choice

Cover Story | 2025 New Year Issue: Geopolitics

The Power of Choice

India can leverage its partnership with the US to advance its geopolitical interests without provoking a volatile and vindictive China

Owning Ambedkar

Cover Story | 2025 New Year Issue: Legacy

Owning Ambedkar

The Dalit icon’s analysis of social inequalities lights the path ahead for Hindu society

Minoo Masani, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Rajendra Prasad and C Rajagopalachari

Cover Story | 2025 New Year Issue: Politics

The Age of Creative Conservatism

The right thing to do in India today

RSS volunteers in Amritsar

Cover Story | 2025 New Year Issue: Ideology

RSS At 100

Keeping the Parivar and the Party separate for the sake of the nation

Members of the Constituent Assembly sign the first copies of the Constitution, January 25, 1950

Cover Story | 2025 New Year Issue: The Republic

A Life In Four Acts

A political biography of the Indian Constitution

Sorry We Are English

Cover Story | 2025 New Year Issue: Legacy

Sorry We Are English

What a country. We can’t speak properly, or drive sensibly, and we have fallen into stealing each other’s pets to make a living

Private Square

Cover Story | 2025 New Year Issue: Social Media

Private Square

WhatsApp groups bring families separated by continents, long-lost friends, and people with a common cause together but also lead to unexpected consequences

God In the Machine

Cover Story | 2025 New Year Issue: Religion

God In the Machine

From chatbots channelling divinity to robots automating rituals, AI goes spiritual

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