Rajasthan

India’s Most Hated Tree

Lhendup G Bhutia

Its survival instincts make Prosopis juliflora the most hated tree in India—and unfairly so

Folk Theorems

Ritika Kochhar

Tribal art gets mainstream status in the marketplace

Desert Storm

Akhil Sood

Every year in winter, a village in Rajasthan becomes the nerve centre of electronic music. Akhil Sood on the making of a camping festival

Padmavati: History as a Dispute

Siddharth Singh

Blasts from the past strike modern India with unfailing regularity. The controversy over Padmavati focuses on the fact that what endangers freedom is the politicisation of protest in the name of freedom

Padmavati: The Legend of the Queen

Akhila Mathew

From Rajput valour to nationalist heroism, the story of Padmavati has a rich socio-cultural tradition

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