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Cover Story | Forecast 2025: Politics

Modi and the New Common Sense

PR Ramesh
PR Ramesh

The prime minister will lead from the front as BJP forges a firm response to political and parliamentary subversion while efforts to acknowledge historical violence against Hindus will help preserve India’s cultural ethos

Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the Winter Session of Parliament, November 25, 2024
| Open Essay

Why They Hate Us

Amit Majmudar

Hindus do not fit into the cherished narratives of many groups—from the American right to the Bangladeshi mob

Donald Trump lights a diya on Deepavali in the Oval Office, October 24, 2019
| In Memoriam: Manmohan Singh (1932-2024)

Dr Singh in History

Rajeev Deshpande

He was the only non-Gandhi Congress prime minister to complete two terms but his achievements were overshadowed by the failure to curb corruption

He was the only non-Gandhi Congress prime minister to complete two terms but his achievements were overshadowed by the failure to curb corruption
Are we about to see the end of three decades of global economic integration?

Cover Story | Forecast 2025: Geoeconomics

A Fragmenting World

Are we about to see the end of three decades of global economic integration?

Beyond the White Noise

Cover Story | Forecast 2025: Politics

Beyond the White Noise

Accelerating reforms and reviving growth will be the Modi government’s key task even as a recharged BJP takes on the Opposition in Delhi and Bihar

SPACE ODDITIES

Cover Story | Forecast 2025: World

Global Alert

Where to expect pleasant surprises and when to prepare for rude shocks

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping at the bilateral meeting in Kazan, Russia, October 23, 2024

Columns | Comment

Hard Diplomacy

Did New Delhi’s ‘big-stick’ approach make Beijing pipe down on the LAC?

Reform Season

Columns | Insider

Reform Season

The chatterati is waiting to see if the government bites the bullet

Salman Rushdie with a copy of The Satanic Verses on February 14, 1989, the day Ayatollah Khomeini issued his fatwa

Books | Soft Power

The Return of a Book

Is there a risk of The Satanic Verses being banned again?

Books | Forecast 2025: Fiction

Returns and Redemptions

Nobel Prize Winners to the most beloved authors on loss and hope in a changing world

Books | Forecast 2025: Books: Non-Fiction

Future Foreword

Memoirs, histories and environmental treatises that look both back and ahead

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