Kashmir’s free status | New faces of power | Who’s afraid of AI | The market bounce |Medals and hurdles | The year in verse
Cover Stories
Feature
Can Mayawati’s successor rebuild the Bahujan Samaj Party?
Why they often turn out to be bland fares
Columns
The nature of the Establishment has undergone a definite modification
Women are the nodal caste in his radical recharacterisation of varna
Left leaders are arguing that it is more important for the Congress leader to contest from northern India or even Karnataka, and that this would send an appropriate signal of political engagement
A rejoinder to asymmetric secularism
Essay
A year in verse
The Supreme Court judgment on Article 370 is a historical correction
BJP’s spectacular victory in three states is matched by the party’s selection of the chief ministers