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The Quest for a Sovereign Identity

Divine authority and other idioms of power in the shaping of modern India

It’s Not All That Bad

An argument against negativity

Waiting for the Barbarians

The retreat of states and the politics of the future

The Bloody Biography of Change

By all accounts, India is not a factor in the election. Is this because the consensus on India is so strong across Pakistan’s political divides that no party gets extra mileage by wrapping the flag around itself?

Imran Khan and the Struggle for a New Pakistan

Imran Khan is hopeful of winning the Pakistani General Election on July 25th. Despite his legendary U-turns and his never-changing mantra of ‘me-myself-I’, there is one thing that remains unquestioned in an environment where corruption is a way of life: his financial integrity. He is many things but he is not corrupt. And Pakistan is everything for Imran Khan

The Cost of Expectations

We want a lot from our Governments, but...

Indraprastha

Speculative moves before 2019, Chandan Mitra's exit from BJP and the deja vu of Minto Bridge

Karnataka: The Coaltion of Utmost Unhappiness

The two-month old cohabitation experiment in Karnataka is on the verge of disaster

It’s that time of the season when…