Editor’s Note

Let National Identity Prevail Over Constitutional Patriotism

An Indian History of Tolerance

Between the secular and the civilisational

BR Ambedkar: Uses of an Icon

Every party wants a slice of him six decades after his death. Ambedkar is bigger than the collective desperation of Ambedkarites

Modi in UK: Illusions of a Vanished Past

It’s a fallacy to imagine that being the first prime minister to be born after Independence, Modi is immune to the magic of the British Raj

The Wealth Issue: Editor’s Note

The so-called crisis in capitalism is not solved by applied dogma, but by ethics—call it compassionate capitalism or whatever

The Power of Pursuit in the Age of Modi

Dwarfed by doubts and hobbled by a lack of political will, India has for so long failed to play out its inherent strength. Can Prime Minister Narendra Modi unlock the great-power potential of the country? A new book by one of India’s foremost strategic thinkers anatomises the power paradigms of a nation in transition

Politics As Costume Drama

It’s not for nothing that Indian politicians are so conscious of what they wear

Being Free to Be Free

Let neither fear nor community piety usurp our freedom

A Montage Made in Memory

Poetics of a future in the fragmentary experiences of freedom and terror