Notebook

An Opposition alliance has unseated a strong incumbent at the Centre only when it has had a promise to sell and a charismatic leader. The anti-Modi alliance has neither while its own contradictions threaten to pull it apart

The Norwegian author wins the Nobel Prize in literature for his linguistic inventiveness

On a Union minister asking for a break-up of Uttar Pradesh

As 2024 looks scary, can he do a vintage Boris Johnson?

The opposition hopes the Bihar caste survey will revive the Mandal debate but BJP’s Hindutva-plus model has changed the ground rules

Why did it take the Nehru government 14 years before proceeding against a recalcitrant Portugal that had made it clear it would not budge from Goa?

Smith and Marx. Keynes and Friedman. Why no one else?

A football boss’ ouster shows how much things have improved for women in Spain

Peace has become all the more elusive in Manipur

Long known as India’s coaching capital, Kota has been rocked by a spate of student suicides—twenty-seven to date this year. Aditya Iyer travels to the Rajasthani city in search of answers