Free spirit

In election season, it is usual to see populist spending but this time there’s a twist or two in the story

The most notable feature of this interim budget is the income support programme for small and marginal farmers

After nearly two decades of violence, Bastar now has a semblance of normalcy but this has more to do with individual choices than ideological leanings

The conditions under which force may be used against government injustice and what India’s historical experience tells us about resistance

Between Trump and Xi

Marked by identity politics

The American role and the nature of Pakistan

The twists and turns of an Indian political plot

Protest marches by farmers and emotive appeals by politicians are no substitute for the need to fix India’s broken farm sector

CELESTIAL HEROISM IS a bestseller, unless it is badly made. In it merges great survivor dramas and the romance of breaching the boundaries of human…