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The Cultural Traveller

Madhavankutty Pillai

To really know a place is to know its stories. It is walking without hurrying. Maybe seeing something in part but with immersion

Modi leads the big pushback against efforts to divide Hindu society

PR Ramesh

Defender of the Faith

Kamala Harris: A Loser All the Way

Dipankar Gupta

Abortions are no longer worthy of devotional attention as there are much better contraceptive methods today than what was the case in the 1980s when Kamala Harris was just beginning to break out of political puberty

Usha Vance: A Passage from India

V Shoba

In Vadluru, Usha Vance’s ancestral village in Andhra Pradesh, the celebrations are a reaffirmation that the village itself holds the seed of greatness

Donald Trump: Anti-Awokening

Swapan Dasgupta

Trump has contributed significantly to rolling back the tide of woke activism from schools in America and even the rest of the democratic world

Trump: America’s Revolutionary

Tunku Varadarajan

The Trump Revolution in the GOP has marked the most profound cultural and civilisational shift in American politics since Reagan’s first victory in 1980