Not many Indians, Pakistanis, or Bangladeshis would be familiar with the name Archer Blood. Even fewer would have heard of Scott Butcher. But anyone who… Read full story

When Sunil Khilnani wrote the “Idea of India” in 1997, it was not just about the country marking 50 years of independence from British colonial rule. It was a powerful salvo… Read full story

Visuals tell a lot; they also hide a lot. Scenes from Lal Chowk in Srinagar, soon after the Supreme Court hammered almost the last nail in the coffin… Read full story

Every possible postmortem of the verdict of the five recently concluded Assembly elections has been done by all possible pathologists,… Read full story

This is part one of a four-part ‘December’ series that revisits significant historical events and policies, and how the lessons learned… Read full story

What is shocking is the behaviour and utterances of Congress leaders like Karti Chidambaram and Priyank Kharge, who de facto supported the lunacy… Read full story

Pundits and people who are of a certain ideological bent of mind are a die-hard lot; or you could say they are a never-say-die lot. Ordinary mortals… Read full story

He was the quintessential Hindi heartland Congress politician when the party was at its towering peak. Yet, the mother of all ironies… Read full story

With the manner in which terrorists manage to score spectacularly gruesome attacks that butcher innocents across the world, countries have… Read full story

Both admirers and critics of Indian democracy will agree on one aspect: it is the noisiest democracy in the world. Where else in the world… Read full story