politics

Maoists or Sub-Rural Thugs?

S Prasannarajan

Getting out of the fallacy of ‘compassion vs combat’

The Rise and Fall of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

Despite being destroyed by the Pakistan army, perhaps he would have done better as a politician if not blinded by hubris

The Born Identity

Zakia Soman

A personal history of Islam in India

Is Reason Infected?

Vinay Lal

Science and civil society in the year of the plague

Danger From Praise

Jayanta Ghosal

When Pakistan’s former High Commissioner to India Abdul Basit lauded Mamata Banerjee for her political acumen

How Morarji Desai outwitted Jagjivan Ram and Charan Singh

Ravi Visvesvaraya Sharada Prasad

Looking back at the intriguing political deliberations of late March 1977 that saw the rise of the first non-Congress government at the Centre

The Other Sinha

Jayanta Ghosal

Shatrughan Sinha has been singing praises of TMC leader Mamata Banerjee of late

Subservient Minds

Minhaz Merchant

And their dominion stretches from politics to media

A Citizen of the Subcontinent

Ram Madhav

It's a tribute to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, whose centenary celebrations conclude today, that India and Bangladesh have forged a very close friendship

The Violent Indian

Ullekh NP

Thomas Blom Hansen’s new book studies the widening gap between the goals of those at the helm and the rights enshrined in the Constitution. The author in conversation with Ullekh NP