democracy

Data Capitalism

Ullekh NP

A tell-all account by former Cambridge Analytica executive Brittany Kaiser reveals why data is the new oil

Beware the Tribe

S Prasannarajan

Grassroots cultural vigilantism is being matched by digital show trial

Who’s Afraid of Freedom?

S Prasannarajan

Three decades after 1989, the autocrat has become the sole choreographer of freedom

Asian Lessons

Deepak Nayyar

The changing relationship between the state and the marketplace

Fraught States

Suhrith Parthasarathy

The trouble in believing that constitutional crises around the world are symptoms of the same disease

The Price of Success

Siddharth Singh

Capitalism’s victory is all encompassing but it has also led the world to a cul-de-sac of ideas

Still Searching for Nawaz Sharif

Mehr Tarar

A portrait of the fallen Pakistani leader in the words of others

Student Supplicant Politician Statesman

Roderick Matthews

London played both active and passive roles in Gandhi’s life. It was where he became a man and a lawyer, and where he first played high-stakes politics. British law shaped him; the orderly part of his system was based squarely on the idea of staying within the law, and expecting your opponents to do the same