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Politics

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

The solution to India’s floods

Assam’s Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has said: 'Declaring floods a national problem is not going to work. We need a national solution.' Salute...

Why is Japan quietly building an industrial corridor through India’s Northeast?

For most of the coverage cycle around Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's July visit to New Delhi, the headline numbers did the talking about...

The hypocrisy of the US

FARA is sovereignty, FCRA is persecution? The theo-politics of American pressure on India