Cover Stories

A Burning in Memory…A Hole in History…

S Prasannarajan

On the twentieth anniversary of 9/11 the debate on Islam is as condescending and dishonest as ever

Wave Theory

Madhavankutty Pillai

They offer certainties in mathematics and physics but for pandemics, they don’t offer much help in predicting the future

Permanent Vigil

Amita Shah

The government is taking no chances

The Anxious Pause

Lhendup G Bhutia

Are children most at risk in a possible new surge?

Vaccinate and be Saved

Shahid Jameel

So long and science is still the salvation

The increasing impossibility of an anti-Modi coalition

PR Ramesh and Ullekh NP

Opposition unity remains elusive with Congress hurtling from crisis to crisis as old and potential allies grow more suspicious

The Temptations of History

Siddharth Singh

Afghanistan was never a viable nation-state and is unlikely to be one in future. The roots of the Afghan chaos are to be found in the country’s divisions

The Emirate of Hate

Manvendra Singh

Rooted in the medieval mindset of the barely lettered, the Taliban draw their staying power from the coalition of clans, ready supplies of cash and a cosiness provided by a mindful neighbour

The US has grievously hurt its international credibility with a self-inflicted defeat and humiliation in Afghanistan. Its enemies can only be celebrating. The security and humanitarian disaster that the Biden administration has unleashed in Afghanistan will likely unravel whatever is left of American primacy

75 Names of Freedom

Siddharth Singh and Amita Shah

Together, from north to south and east to west, they forged the iron framework of a social, cultural, political, economic, intellectual and educational foundation for the new nation of India