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Monthly Archives: October, 2026

Religion

The Bengali who eats meat during Durga Puja is no less a Hindu

Every Navratri, someone says it again: meat must not be eaten while the Devi...
A Shaw -
Society

Part II: Who wrote the caste question

An Indian sociologist’s untested idea went to Harvard as a hypothesis and came back as a fact
Kaushlesh Rai -
Politics

An Indian Express op-ed calls the protests peaceful. The record says otherwise.

On 14 October 2026, The Indian Express published an opinion piece by Faizan Mustafa...
Sanhita Pandey -
Caste

Part I: The caste question after a death

When a student dies on an Indian campus, the question is no longer how it could have been stopped, but what his caste was.
Kaushlesh Rai -
Politics

Heads we win, tails it’s rigged

The protesters say India’s institutions are finished. The Supreme Court spent the week hearing them out.
Akshay Ranade -
Religion

Blame the rapist, not the Goddess

Every year as Navratri approaches, a familiar set of captions floods social media: "They...
Akanksha Singh Raghuvanshi -
Politics

Starlink must meet India’s terms

Elon Musk has a gift for dressing up a sales pitch as charity. Starlink...
Rajyavardhan Choubey -
Politics

Part III: India for sale

The cultural front — magazines, books, cinema and the manufacture of legitimacy
A Shaw -
Books

Amitav Ghosh’s sweeper-woman doesn’t need rescuing

In Amitav Ghosh's The Calcutta Chromosome, Elijah Farley visits D. D. Cunningham's laboratory in...
Nandani Khichi -
Economy

America’s PERM freeze barely hurts India, and quietly flatters it

Few reactions to Washington’s latest move have been as misleading as that of the...
Nitya Ahuja -
Politics

Why wait for the verdict when there’s a camera?

On 12 October 2026, the INDIA bloc marched on the Supreme Court. Delhi closed...
Akanksha Singh Raghuvanshi -
Law

The process is the punishment

The SC/ST Act lets an FIR do a verdict's work. At IIT Bombay, the penalty came before the hearing.
Rudraksh Sharma -
Politics

Pratap Bhanu Mehta wants to defend democracy by making institutions surrender to the street

The Cockroach Janta Party has managed to combine "two sources of public anger", the...
Editor -
Politics

Why so selective, UN?

On 7 October 2026, the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) wrote to the Delhi Police...
Nikhil Sinha -
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