politics

On the Road to Damascus

Anchal Vohra

The war may not be over yet but Syria begins to rebuild from the ruins. What’s there for India as China monopolises the reconstruction contracts? Anchal Vohra reports from Damascus

Jaffna: The Haunted and the Hopeful

Aditya Iyer

Jaffna still bears the scars of one of history’s longest and bloodiest guerrilla wars. Aditya Iyer reports from the Sri Lankan city caught between a horrifying memory and a tentative future

Varanasi and Anuradhapura: Sacred Geographies

Smriti Daniel

Politics, power and faith in the holy cities of Varanasi and Anuradhapura

‘We musicians sit on the high horse of religiosity,’ says TM Krishna

V Shoba

Open conversation with TM Krishna, Carnatic vocalist and writer

Punjab: Seeds of Secession

Siddharth Singh

Punjab highlights the disasters that can arise when political unscrupulousness is mixed with religious fervour

Media in the Mirror

Shashi Tharoor

Journalism in a time of change

Throwing out Secular Nehru with the Socialist Bathwater

Zareer Masani

The end of an idea that was Indian politics’ greatest contradiction

Indraprastha

Virendra Kapoor

Amit Shah's edict, a journalist with ‘connections’ and the medical college scam

Will the military establishment, said to be in cahoots with the Supreme Court, ever restrain itself from imposing its power in tacit and blatant ways? Will the ruling elites ever be properly checked for wealth beyond apparent means?