Leadership Lessons from Narendra Modi

The Outlier State

The economic recovery has defied grim forecasts but there are enough reasons for cautious optimism

Inversations In the Year of Fear

Cover Up or Be Damned

With us since the beginning of civilisation, the mask finally took over the face of human beings but chances are not for long

The Valley of Paradoxes

Between abrogation of Article 370 and district-level polls, no one is sure yet which way the pendulum will swing in Kashmir

Terra Infirma

What still mattered most was how the US and China dealt with each other

How to Be a Modern Man

New laws and the pandemic have changed ideas of masculinity and society’s expectations of men. Are they up for it?

The Newborn Dad

How the pandemic is changing the role of man

Rage and Reality

Punjab’s farmers are at Delhi’s doors demanding a rollback of the farm reform laws—reforms meant to help poorer states that today produce much more than Punjab under more difficult economic conditions. Isn’t it coercion by a pampered lot?

The Limits of Autonomy Politics

The district council elections may be the first step in disempowering Kashmir’s oligarchy