Modi Seeks the Smart Vote

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Muslim-First Congress

Minhaz Merchant

Secularism needs to be inclusive and put India first

Feature

The Gukesh Effect on Indian Chess

Madhavankutty Pillai

Feature

Sudhir Kakar (1938-2024): The Mind Reader

Ullekh NP

The polymath demystified the Indian psyche like nobody else did

Feature

No Trump Card

Madhavankutty Pillai

On the tenuous relationship between justice and order

Columns

Naveen Babu’s Dual Conch

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In a play on the Bharatiya Janata Party’s “dual engine sarkar”, the BJD veteran sought the support of voters for the “dual shanko” (conch shells)

Columns

Why Kiran Nadar Matters

Suhel Seth

How to amplify India’s soft power internationally

Essay

The Terror of Writing on Terror

C Christine Fair

The trials of collecting material on the Lashkar-e-Tayyaba

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On Top of His Game

PR Ramesh

How Modi wins the young influentials—and the smart vote

Politics

Spare the EVM Please

Rajeev Deshpande

Look who’s losing faith in democracy

Politics

Modi’s Doosra

Rajeev Deshpande

In what could be a pivotal moment in the election, PM links Congress’s redistribution stance to its pursuit of quotas for Muslims at the cost of OBCs

Politics

A Socialist Mirage

Siddharth Singh

Policies that encourage redistribution have a poor track record and Congress’ leftward lurch is more a vision of class war than empowerment

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Muslim-First Congress

The Gukesh Effect on Indian Chess

Sudhir Kakar (1938-2024): The Mind Reader

No Trump Card

Naveen Babu’s Dual Conch

Why Kiran Nadar Matters

The Terror of Writing on Terror

On Top of His Game

Spare the EVM Please

Modi’s Doosra

A Socialist Mirage

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