India

“Grant Autonomy to Valley”

Open

The government’s eight-point initiative on Kashmir is not enough. The idea of autonomy is finding resonance even at the extremes of the Indian political spectrum.

Law Is above Expediency

Jatin Gandhi

Jurisprudence is just as vital to the idea of India as maintaining communal equilibrium.

Internet Police on Campus

Pallavi Polanki

Alleged internet misuse is enough, it would seem, to suspend a student from the university. And this is not the only campus facing a clampdown.

Touch and Go

Basharat Peer

India is losing Kashmir. This much is clear

Tender Loving Counsel

Avantika Bhuyan

A young team of four law students across three continents is helping shape important legislation as they make their way through Indian Parliament.

The Fall of Hyderabad

Gautam Pemmaraju

On the 62nd anniversary of this princely state’s surrender to the Indian Union, a look back at the trail of events that led up to it.

Killing Panna’s Poster Cubs

Jay Mazoomdaar

Exposed: a monitoring team kept Panna’s only male from his cubs for four months after birth.

Slightly built they may be, but you’d be a fool to take them lightly. Battle-hardened, fiercely committed to their cause and proud of the identity the movement gives them, the woman Maoists here are every bit as fierce as their male comrades.