Cover Stories

Constitution Vs Democracy?

Madhav Khosla

Is India at a moment where its democracy is in battle with its Constitution?

Kandahar 1999: Story of a Hijacking

Manvendra Singh

The first-person narrative recalls the drama that kept India awake for seven fateful nights

Who is an Indian?

Siddharth Singh

The amended citizenship law clears the path to the naturalisation of persecuted minorities in India’s neighbourhood even as misplaced alarmism portrays it as anti-Muslim

Stoking Recession Fears

Bibek Debroy

The naysayers will get their grim forecasts wrong

The Nosedive

Siddharth Singh and Ullekh NP

What needs to be done

Where is the Hindu Right Going?

Rahul Pandita

Look who’s eroding the Modi ecosystem

Uddhav Thackeray turned the party genteel but in the process deprived it of the aggression that fuelled its growth. The price of his chief ministership is being hostage to old family friend Sharad Pawar

Faith Lines

Saurabh Singh

The return of Ram

The Epic Epiphany

Keerthik Sasidharan

The abiding attraction of the Ramayana to Indian society, and to the Indian mind, lies in the innumerable idealised social relations that abound in the epic. Its importance as a template for social bonds is what is often missed in the textual discussions that preoccupy scholars

Where Did the Temples Go?

Abhinav Prakash Singh

Justice has been meted out for a historical wrong. Hindus waited for this moment for five centuries and have taken it with dignified restraint. A majority of Muslims too have understood that they were misled by vested interests and it was wrong to destroy and appropriate the places of worship of others