It was the first in a series of terror attacks targeting innocent civilians in urban centres that caused mayhem and misery in India for 20 long and uninterrupted years. So sustained… Read full story

Clichés are sometimes useful in explaining things. The saying that reality usually lies between two extreme viewpoints is apt for describing the brouhaha raised by the latest International Labour… Read full story

How a decade is enough to dissolve all the pomp and glory. The author was here more than a decade ago when there was an air of festivity, celebration, and an unbridled display of political and muscle power. Folks were…

Political allegiances are changing in UP, clearly in favour of BJP and Modi. But the Ram temple seems to have also deepened the fault lines of polarisation. Last month in Ayodhya, I witnessed a surge of… Read full story

The author drove back from Shimla just as voting inside the assembly was about to take place to elect a Rajya Sabha MP from Himachal Pradesh. Quite a few people the author met in the state between 25 and 27

It would be three more years before all Nehruvian idealism and illusions were smashed and pulverised into smithereens. It was about ten years after Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel had formally warned Jawaharlal Nehru… Read full story

Apart from a few die-hard supporters here and there, the author found no enthusiasm among ordinary folks for the BJP. Forget Ayodhya, the contrast with even Assam and North Bengal was starkly visible… Read full story

So remarkable is the fine print in Canada’s new law that Stalin and Mao would have been proud sponsors of such a law. The annual Ides of March lamentation about the death of democracy… Read full story

Lok Sabha elections 2024: From clearly seen hostility earlier, the discourse in Kashmir now has transformed into mainstream “Indian”. Mubaraq speaks suave and flawless English of the kind… Read full story

It’s a shade over zero degrees in downtown Srinagar where the author interacts informally with Suman and a few others who are students at Amar Singh College. What impresses the author is her personality. She radiates confidence. Suman… Read full