Tariq Ali resurrects the Soviet patriarch from distortions of history

The politicisation of the military is not good for either the armed forces or democracy

Opportunities in disruption

A new generation of Dalit leaders are challenging the old order and defying social hierarchies of the heartland

The think tank becomes the site of a proxy war

India cannot afford to remain complacent

What cow vigilantism has done to undefended lives and livelihoods. Ullekh NP visits Alwar in Rajasthan and Jaisinghpur in Haryana to find out. Photos: Ashish Sharma

The permanent campaign

The aggrieved, the aspirational, the awed and the austere. The anatomy of a history-shifting verdict

Where the cadres of the RSS/BJP are locked in a bloody battle with the Marxists

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…