Rajasthan

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

Tigers, Tribals and Tourism

Prabha Chandran

Where conservation is not in conflict with consumerism

Shadows on the Sand

Achal Dhruva

And a temple where they pray to a motorcycle

Make It Silly Policy

Madhavankutty Pillai

On the pride Rajasthan’s education department takes in evicting TS Eliot from a textbook

The Kota System: Rs 600 Crore Coaching Industry

Sonali Acharjee

Snazzy packaging, ironclad teacher contracts and study-on-the-go apps revive the city’s famed Rs 600 crore coaching industry

Desert Storm: Camels in the Zoo

Sunaina Kumar

A new bill threatens to become the straw that will break the back of Rajasthan’s camels, turning them into zoo animals. Could their milk save them?

JATS: BACKWARD FORWARD

Kumar Anshuman

The Supreme Court decision to take Jats off the Central OBC list means that the Jats of Bharatpur and Dholpur districts don’t get the benefit of reservations that others of the community do in Rajasthan