The Hijab Question

Cover Stories

What the Headscarf Reveals

S Prasannarajan

Reading Orhan Pamuk's Snow in the time of hijab politics

Columns

The Left-liberal Bias

Virendra Kapoor

Of the Western media against the “pro-Hindu right wing” Government

Columns

India’s Russian Roulette

Minhaz Merchant

A Beijing-Moscow axis can be destabilising

Columns

Living Virally

Suhel Seth

The power of cough in a post-Covid society

Feature

Rahul Bajaj (1938-2022): Scooter Man

Madhavankutty Pillai

Bajaj’s business didn’t just survive but grew in liberalised India

Feature

The Canadian Complex

Madhavankutty Pillai

On the extraordinary power grab of Justin Trudeau to stop protests that would seem ordinary in India

Feature

Bappi Lahiri (1952-2022): Dancing to His Own Tune

Kaveree Bamzai

He composed memorable songs in forgettable movies but the remix revolution has kept his music alive

Columns

Love and Separation

Makarand R Paranjape

The aesthetics of Indian politics XIII

Columns

The Call of Fantasy Sport

Boria Majumdar

Beyond the big bucks, it is also about the pleasure of getting things right

Columns

Who Will Be President?

Jayanta Ghosal

From the stable of the ruling BJP, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh seems to be the first choice

Cover Stories

Indian Muslims Need to Emulate the Indonesian Model

Ram Madhav

The humanitarianism of eastern Islam

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What the Headscarf Reveals

The Left-liberal Bias

India’s Russian Roulette

Living Virally

Rahul Bajaj (1938-2022): Scooter Man

The Canadian Complex

Bappi Lahiri (1952-2022): Dancing to His Own Tune

Love and Separation

The Call of Fantasy Sport

Who Will Be President?

Indian Muslims Need to Emulate the Indonesian Model

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