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2026 New Year Issue: Editor’s Note
2026 New Year Issue: Editor’s Note
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Control C for Culture
Control C for Culture
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English apart, Macaulay is a necessary outcast in Modi’s India where the liberal notion of modernity as adherence to the European enlightenment is an idea whose time has passed
Dharmocracy: Conservatism With A Hindu Accent
Dharmocracy: Conservatism With A Hindu Accent
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Indian cultural nationalists can offer the world dharmocracy as an alternative to MAGA’s racist and religious exclusivism
Updating Panchsheel: Five principles that should guide India through the new world disorder
Updating Panchsheel: Five principles that should guide India through the new world disorder
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India’s commitment to constitutional democracy, its celebration of diversity, its civilisational religious pluralism, its rejection of hegemonic ambitions— these are foundations of our international s ...
Dhurandhar: Framing the New Nation
Dhurandhar: Framing the New Nation
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Dhurandhar combines artistic panache with nationalist messaging in a spy thriller spanning the subcontinent
Messi, Maradona, Pelé: Kolkata and Kismet
Messi, Maradona, Pelé: Kolkata and Kismet
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Indian football’s story began in the city, sowing its soil with a passion often overwrought but never restrained
“Much Worse Than 2025”: Meloni Sounds Alarm on Italy’s Turbulent 2026
“Much Worse Than 2025”: Meloni Sounds Alarm on Italy’s Turbulent 2026
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Italian PM Giorgia Meloni has warned her staff that 2026 will be “much worse” than 2025, citing mounting public debt, weak growth, and global uncertainty. With debt nearing 137% of GDP and fragile rec ...
Ecstasy in Yellow: What is Sanatani Qawwali?
Ecstasy in Yellow: What is Sanatani Qawwali?
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Dancer and author Manjari Chaturvedi navigates archival documents to trace the shared musical heritage of Hindus and Sufis
167 Million Tonnes, One IPO: Why SECL’s Listing Matters More Than You Think
167 Million Tonnes, One IPO: Why SECL’s Listing Matters More Than You Think
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India’s largest coal producer is preparing to step into the public markets on its own. Coal India’s board has cleared the listing of South Eastern Coalfields Limited (SECL), its most productive subsid ...
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2026 New Year Issue

Essays by Shashi Tharoor, Sumana Roy, Ram Madhav, Swapan Dasgupta, Carlo Pizzati, Manjari Chaturvedi, TCA Raghavan, Vinita Dawra Nangia, Rami Niranjan Desai, Shylashri Shankar, Roderick Matthews, Suvir Saran
Philosophy: The Fallacy of Hope
Philosophy: The Fallacy of Hope
A Stupa for the 49th Year Of Life
A Stupa for the 49th Year Of Life
The Governor Is On His Way
The Governor Is On His Way
Manav Kaul’s Kashmir Files
Manav Kaul’s Kashmir Files
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What Marxism taught me about the world around me
What Marxism taught me about the world around me
Born in an illustrious communist family, the writer reflects on how Marxism helped him develop a strong historical imagination
A major reform push helped Modi Govt boost growth, tackle tariff & other challenges
Bold initiatives, bolstered by BJP winning key state polls, made 2025 the year of reforms aimed at revving the economy and improving the lives of common citizens. Sweeping reduction in tax liabilities ...
Thackeray Cousins Formally Reunite Ahead Of BMC Polls
With a call to Marathis to not get divided and waste their vote, Uddhav and Raj frame their alliance as the one ‘Maharashtra was waiting for’
Karnataka’s hate speech law could test limits of state action on free speech
The bill expands penalties and definitions beyond existing criminal law and is likely to be tested in court
Stalin’S Hindu Problem
Stalin’S Hindu Problem
Anxious to retain the minority vote in next year’s elections, DMK has angered Tamil Hindus by attacking their practices and trying to get Justice GR Swaminathan impeached
MGNREGA: Recasting Welfare
MGNREGA: Recasting Welfare
Overhauling MGNREGA is a political pivot towards more fiscally responsible aid and employment schemes as well as a departure from profligate spending
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