SACRED COW & PROFANE POLITICS

Henning Mankell: True Detective

Lhendup G Bhutia

For the Day Bihar Thinks Beyond Caste

Shruti Vyas

Complexity, despair and hope in Bihar

Voices

How India’s Unofficial Blockade is Affecting Post-Earthquake Nepal

Naomi Mihara

A nation struggling to recover from one crisis has been hit by another

India

Bihar Election: Sons of the Toil

Kumar Anshuman

Lalu Prasad’s real fight is for the family

Voices

Don’t Blame the Cow

Shiv Visvanathan

Intimations of soft fascism

India

A Lynching in Dadri

Ullekh NP

The killing of a man over rumours of beef eating in a western UP village brings out the worst instincts of electoral politics and casts a shadow on the modernisation programme of the Prime Minister

Open Essay

Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri’s Memoir: Dialogue is Destiny

Mani Shankar Aiyar

Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri’s magisterial memoir further underlines the truth that the consolidation of India’s own nationhood depends crucially on our being able to look on Pakistan as a friend and neighbour, not as a threat and an enemy