The Critical Insider

Why Did Indira Gandhi Call for Elections in January 1977?

The author, whose father HY Sharada Prasad was Information advisor to Indira Gandhi, examines the likely reasons why she relaxed the Emergency and called for elections

‘Nine-month gap for booster shot unscientific’

Indian-origin immunologist says that booster shot must be given within 5-6 months of the second shot

Age of Unreason

What Novak Djokovic’s experience says about fear and power in the time of Covid

Revisionist History

History is devoid of meaning if the context is taken out of events

In Uddhav Thackeray’s Absence

Forecast 2022

Mapping The Male Feminist

Why some men struggle so hard to prove their emotional credentials

The Hallmark of Politics

The profound arrogance that sometimes manifests itself in supposedly knowing what is good for others

Electric Cars: The EVolution