Cover Stories

Fulfilling Ambedkar’s Dream

Guru Prakash

Dalits tend to benefit more than others with social peace and stability

Modi & the Monk

PR Ramesh | Rajeev Deshpande | Ullekh NP

It was the ‘double-engine’ magic of Modi-Yogi at work in UP. In the run-up to 2024, the unambiguous message is that leaders like Adityanath will give no quarter to slow-footed rivals

‘Kyiv now fights for the future of all human beings’

Rahul Pandita

Svyatoslav Vakarchuk, Musician, in coversation with Rahul Pandita

India an a Tight Rope

Rajeev Deshpande

New Delhi balances ties with Russia and the West while keeping an eye on China

How Putin Has United America

James Astill

Joe Biden is playing a convincing role in the crisis—for scant political reward

Borderland or Bloodland?

Sudeep Paul

Geography as the determinant of Ukraine’s violent history

Is This the Beginning of A New World Order?

MJ Akbar

America sought the impossible, Russia the unattainable

Joe Biden’s Containment 2.0 seeks to employ economic tools to undermine the Russian state. The strategy could prove counterproductive and divide the global economy into two competitive blocs. It will also raise international tensions and worsen America’s strategic overstretch

What Democracies Owe Ukraine

S Prasannarajan

A federation of democracies can still save freedom—with ideals and arms

Madhuri Dixit: The Return of the Queen

Kaveree Bamzai

Madhuri Dixit set the template for the modern-day heroine in Bollywood and now she is back to challenge it in a new series that casts her as an ageing diva