politics

Swapan Dasgupta, Political Commentator and MP

Open

The Conservative

Open Minds 2017: Editor’s Note

Yesterday's public intellectual, fallen from his ideological perch, is the new doomsday monger. In the new order, the loudest one is the least sensible

Manju Warrier, Actor

Open

The Star Who Dared

The Diaries of Eliamma Mathen: Homemaker as Intimate Historian

Shahina KK

The diaries of Eliamma Mathen capture with rare sensitivity the political intrigue and skullduggery in the former princely state of Travancore

Alarmism versus Atavism

S Prasannarajan

Secular alarmists and cultural atavists have hijacked the discourse

Cow Vigilantism: Politics of the Sacred and the Profane

Ullekh NP

What cow vigilantism has done to undefended lives and livelihoods. Ullekh NP visits Alwar in Rajasthan and Jaisinghpur in Haryana to find out. Photos: Ashish Sharma