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The Revenge of Roughage

V Shoba

Long sidelined, fibre is staging a quiet coup to dethrone protein as the undisputed king of the macros

Maoist eco-system pitch for talks a false flag

Siddharth Singh

Advocacy by overground sympathisers for a truce will not work unless Red cadres lay down arms

AI powered deep fakes pose major cyber threat

Rajeev Deshpande

Highly customised attacks that leave hardly any footprints are rising, says a new digital threat report on India’s banking, financial services and insurance sector

Mario Vargas Llosa, the colossus of the Latin American novel

Ullekh NP

Peru-born literary giant Mario Vargas Llosa (1936-2025) was a bold, tireless explorer of human nature

Speculative History

Shaan Kashyap

Sachin Nandha’s biography of Hedgewar tries to paint a nuanced picture of the RSS founder but fails

“Trump is a one-man wrecking crew trying to destroy globalisation”

Ullekh NP

Professor Grossman of Princeton University warns of a reduction in standards of living, heightened geopolitical tensions and a global recession if Trump reverses the “pause”

Thinking beyond Learning

Antara Raghavan

The 10th edition of the Literary Activism symposium examined different modes of writing and critiquing

The Law Has Spoken

Shubhrastha

The Waqf Act does not intrude upon Islamic practices but seeks to address the grievances of the poor and the marginalised

The Return of the Phantom Beasts

V Shoba

Inside the bold and troubling world of de-extinction

Abusing the Judicial Review Process

Siddharth Singh

The danger here is that judicial interventions in the legislative and executive domains will only breed lawlessness instead of fortifying the rule of law