Open Conversation with Alyssa Ayres, Senior fellow for India, Pakistan and South Asia, Council on Foreign Relations, US

Four dissenting Supreme Court judges go public with their grievances. Now what?

The Government will have to balance the tide of agrarian unrest and manage its finances

India’s foreign policy has changed from a moralist stance to a more pragmatic one

In spite of a hard fought electoral battle, the Congress has not been able to dislodge the BJP from Gujarat

The operative emotion here is one of longing—for better work, opportunities, some development, and, of course, for the grand temple. The contrast with intellectual India could not be more different

Blasts from the past strike modern India with unfailing regularity. The controversy over Padmavati focuses on the fact that what endangers freedom is the politicisation of protest in the name of freedom

Money stashed abroad as revealed in the Paradise Papers incites passion but the reality of offshore accounts is more complex

A pause in the glorious past

The performer’s boldest stroke

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