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Monthly Archives: October, 2026

Part I: The vote that can say only one thing

* This is the first in a series on how India elects and governs itself....

He said ‘regime change’

PRASHANT BHUSHAN leaned towards the microphone at the Press Club of India on 15...

The sound of a qawwali for Bhagwan Ram’s wedding was a choice

Mangal Rang was released on 25 October, eleven days before Nitesh Tiwari’s Ramayana reaches...

Sharjeel Imam calls nationalism idolatry, then builds a nation of his own

Sharjeel Imam, the left's blue-eyed boy, though he says it has seldom loved him...

Who gains when the Cockroach Janta Party stays off the ballot?

ON 12 OCTOBER the Delhi Police told the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) that Jantar...

Neha Bora and the franchise that never chose India

Bose challenged India’s communists in 1928. AISA still hasn’t answered.

It was never just speech

Sharjeel Imam has been in custody since 28 January 2020: six years and nearly...

In Almora, Ravan never burns alone

The town’s mohallas build two dozen of Ravan’s allies, and burn them together on Dussehra

They carved statues too

The myth of a primitive West flatters Indians. It hides what prophetic monotheism destroyed, and what it can still destroy here.

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...

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

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...

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.

Heads we win, tails it’s rigged

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