Madhavankutty Pillai
On the extraordinary power grab of Justin Trudeau to stop protests that would seem ordinary in India
The slashing of key subsidies in agriculture was long overdue and signals the government’s seriousness about economic revival
The Prime Minister’s security breach in Punjab highlights the increasingly extra-parliamentary nature of protest
The threat posed by identity politics to India’s toughest economic reform appears to have influenced the government in taking a decision in the national interest
The Left may have shrunk politically, but it is still an intellectual force to reckon with
If there is trouble from a resurgent Khalistani politics, it is unlikely to follow the roadmap of the 1980s. Siddharth Singh travels across Punjab to find out what has changed