politics
Mandal seeks a comeback against Kamandal
Rajeev Deshpande
The opposition hopes the Bihar caste survey will revive the Mandal debate but BJP’s Hindutva-plus model has changed the ground rules
The New Great Game
How the ethnic equilibrium in Manipur, central to India’s Act East Policy, is tied to mineral-rich Myanmar
An Existential Threat
Udhayanidhi Stalin’s attack on Sanatana Dharma stems from a long tradition of anti-Brahminical Dravidian politics
Welfare Without Populism
The Modi government resists economic appeasement even as Opposition-ruled states revel in it
The Wages of Hate
Manipur is inching towards tentative normalcy after a bloody spell of ethnic rage. Lhendup G Bhutia travels across a scorched state still scattered with the dying embers of anger. A dispatch
The Pawar Riddle
Supriya Sule’s unease with BJP is reflected in her apparently cordial relations with DMK’s Kanimozhi and SP’s Dimple Yadav
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