Cover Story

Viral Fear

Ullekh NP

India joins the world in fighting Coronvirus (and hysteria)

The Muslim Makeover

PR Ramesh

Shaheen Bagh has changed the community’s terms of engagement with the country

Hate Wave in Delhi

Rahul Pandita

Two days of rage and rampage in the National Capital. A Dispatch

Modi’s Fireman

Amita Shah

When Ajit Doval hit the burning streets of Delhi

The Valley of Abandoned Gods

Images by Ashish Sharma and Words by Rahul Pandita

The Junior Union Home Minister Kishan Reddy said the Government would restore and reopen thousands of vandalised temples in Jammu and Kashmir. Will there be a revival of the Hindu heritage in the Valley soon?

Narendra Modi: The Global Campaigner

Sudeep Paul

The gains and challenges of Modi’s foreign policy

Oh, the Cursed Fruit

Lhendup G Bhutia

Our correspondent’s experiment with the Gandhian menu

Student Supplicant Politician Statesman

Roderick Matthews

London played both active and passive roles in Gandhi’s life. It was where he became a man and a lawyer, and where he first played high-stakes politics. British law shaped him; the orderly part of his system was based squarely on the idea of staying within the law, and expecting your opponents to do the same

The Dharmic State

Bibek Debroy

The excesses of state intervention in India have been justified in the name of Gandhi. That’s because he has often been reduced to a face on a currency note, or a remembrance fetish twice a year

From Margin to Centre

Nonica Datta

Jawaharlal Nehru hailed the Amritsar Congress as the first ‘Gandhi Congress’. It was in 1919 that the young Jawaharlal became Gandhi’s lieutenant and organised relief work in the Punjab. Thus began one of the most critical and longest political partnerships of modern India