A Tale of Two Temples

Dissent in the Desert

The irony of Jamal Khashoggi’s dissent doesn’t minimise the tribal brutalism of the Kingdom

The India of Mohan Bhagwat

RSS gives a Hindu definition to unity-in-diversity

Holy Shame

The transactional power of the church in the secular politics of Kerala makes the loneliness of the nun starker

Vajpayee, Because…

The Presence India will miss

Anti-Wealth Politics

The admonishers of ‘pro-industrialist’ Modi are borrowing from the hoary history of socialist India

The Strongman Fetish

But we didn’t call the strongest of them strongmen then

It’s that time of the season when…

Meltdown in London

It’s an absurd spectacle of democracy when the losers march for a vote on a vote

The Politburo of Piety

And the dictatorship of diversity