Cover Stories

Anatomy of a Pastiche

Abhinav Prakash

What we see in the name of Dalit politics and Ambedkarite discourse is an echo of old-style leftist talk coupled with Naxal grandstanding of yore

Change is Her

Nandini Nair

The year saw a shift from the theory of equality for men and women towards a practice of equality

The Show of Strength

PR Ramesh

India still swayed to the tune of Narendra Modi

Rahul Gandhi: The New Boss

Rahul Pandita

Rahul Gandhi emerges from his mother’s shadow to run the Congress. The road to India 2019 begins with a small step in Gujarat 2017

Post Independence, in our collective zeal to present a politically correct version of history, we have ensured that Delhi’s and north India’s Hindu heritage remains hostage to a mix of distortions and apathy

The Hindu Inflexion

Swapan Dasgupta

The domes of Babri Masjid fell on the remains of the Nehruvian consensus. The aftershocks are being felt even today

Editor’s Note: Demolition-Reclamation-Reinvention

S Prasannarajan

A temple in Modi’s India, if his words are any indication, cannot afford to be incompatible with the spirit of modernisation he has unleashed

Mark Tully: The Witness

Ullekh NP

Mark Tully, who reported it for the world from ground zero, watched some leaders asking the police to stay away and Sangh volunteers breaching police cordons with ease. Then they began to climb up the domes of the mosque and started hacking away at the mortar

Kameshwar Chaupal: The First Kar Sevak

Rahul Pandita

Kameshwar Chaupal, now 61, recounts the exact moment he was called onto the stage in Ayodhya with Sangh Parivar stalwarts and told that he would lay the first brick at the construction site of the proposed Rama temple