politics

Farewell to Discord

Jayanta Ghosal

A fractious relationship

There should be no ‘mera-tera’ in our minds, celebrate India’s diversity, says PM

The prime minister’s comments during his Independence Day address comes in the context of several divisive rows in the preceding months over issues that have raised communal temperatures

Ten Mutually-Contradictory Counterfactuals

Akhil Katyal

Poem

‘You Feel Connected in Some Deeper Way to the Country. There’s This Bond, a Kind of Patriotism, that Fills You Up’

Lhendup G Bhutia

Sushil Kumar Kaul Arazbegi, retired corporate executive, Thane

A Whiff of Deradicalisation

Rahul Pandita

The new liberal voices that speak of a different freedom in Kashmir

Optimism of the Will

Swapan Dasgupta

End of the Whither India era

Nitish-BJP split triggers decisive battle for the most backward vote

Rajeev Deshpande

BJP banks on PM Narendra Modi turning Lok Sabha elections into presidential contests

The Trojan Horse of Bihar

Rajeev Deshpande

The sudden fall of the Shiv Sena-NCP-Congress government in Maharashtra would have worked to convince Nitish Kumar that RCP Singh might well be the Trojan horse of Bihar

The Seat of Power

Sarita Sundar

The cultural evolution of the Indian chair

In the Shadow of Terror

Rajeev Deshpande

The murder of a BJP youth leader in coastal Karnataka, the birthplace of Indian Mujahideen founder Yasin Bhatkal, poses a challenge for the state government