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Why the Kashmiri Pandits won’t stop getting killed in the Valley

In August 2026, a letter began circulating with the kind of detail no distant propagandist could invent. It named roughly half a dozen Kashmiri...

The farce of measuring Indian democracy 

There has been much debate, of varying intensity, about the degree of ‘freedom’ that exists in India. The question has resurfaced in recent times...

The arithmetic of division: how the cure preserved the disease?

The Indian state promised to abolish caste while attaching ever greater rewards to caste identity

Swiping Left from the Centre

The rewiring of RaGa

How the politics of the oppressor–oppressed came into existence

In India, a Savarna can never be a victim of caste discrimination. Not when university walls, such as those at JNU, are painted with slogans...

Brahmanical patriarchy: the making of a political category

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's recent invocation of the Manusmriti in a recent program in Pune to characterize the Indian social order and to point...

What Rahul Gandhi gets wrong about patriarchy

In the humid evening air of Pune’s AISSMS College ground on 22 August 2026, thousands of young women gathered under the banner of Congress’s...

Why Vande Mataram remains contested even after 80 years

God and Caesar, church and state, spiritual authority and temporal authority, have been a prevailing dualism in Western culture. Only in Hindu civilisation were...

Foreign-funded NGOs, fuelled activism

India’s debate over foreign funding is often portrayed in global forums as a binary conflict between “civil society autonomy” and “state overreach”. However, investigative...

Pakistan’s fourfather problem

Why this Islamic republic has struggled with its identity