# The Dossier


## Posts

- [What Helle Lyng doesn't understand about journalism](https://thedossier.in/helle-lyng-doesnt-understand-journalism/): Should the Prime Minister of a country not follow diplomatic protocols?
- [The history of Bhojshala that Owaisi conveniently ignored](https://thedossier.in/history-bhojshala-owaisi-ignored/): On 15 May 2026, the Madhya Pradesh High Court delivered a verdict declaring the Bhojshala-Kamal Maula Mosque complex a site of Hindu character and granted exclusive worship rights to the Hindus.
- [West Bengal SIR judgement may not favour Mamata](https://thedossier.in/west-bengal-sir-judgement-may-not-favour-mamata/): In 2025, the Election Commission of India (ECI) conducted the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in Bihar. It made news.
- [The TMC tragedy of West Bengal](https://thedossier.in/the-tmc-tragedy-of-west-bengal/): In less than 48 hours, the Trinamool Congress (TMC) lost the 2026 West Bengal election.
- [The truth about St Xavier that we must know](https://thedossier.in/st-xavier-truth/): There are over 230 educational institutions if no less in the name of St Francis Xavier, popularly known as St Xavier, across India.
- [How Mamata defeated herself](https://thedossier.in/how-mamata-defeated-herself/): Mamata Banerjee has lost the mandate. Mamata is no longer the Chief Minister of West Bengal.
- [TMC has faced the wrath of karma](https://thedossier.in/tmc-has-faced-the-wrath-of-karma/): The Trinamool Congress has lost the 2026 Bengal election, and lost it decisively.
- [Why doesn’t Congress want the Great Nicobar Project to become a reality for India?](https://thedossier.in/why-congress-doesnt-want-great-nicobar-project/): If you have been following the US-Israel vs Iran war, I need not tell you about the Strait of Hormuz.
- [Nṛsiṃha Rāghava](https://thedossier.in/narsimha-raghava/): Bhagavān is commonly known as ‘भक्तवाञ्छाकल्पतरु’ (wish fulfilling tree or Kalpavṛkṣa )among his devotees.
- [The TMC needs to stop using bad language](https://thedossier.in/tmc-stop-using-bad-language/): I was told by someone: if you know what not to say, more than what you say - you can achieve great heights in life.
- [Why the Supreme Court should have addressed the issue of 'fake' SC certificates](https://thedossier.in/why-supreme-court-should-have-addressed-fake-sc-certificates/): I'm happy that the Supreme Court has reinstated its previous stance that if anyone from the SC community converts, he/she cannot file a case under the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989.
- [TCS Nashik case: journalist Subhi Vishwakarma says ‘love jihad’ is not fiction](https://thedossier.in/tcs-nashik-love-jihad-not-fiction/): Recently, a case of love jihad, religious conversion, physical exploitation, and mental harassment has come to light at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) in Nashik, Maharashtra.
- [West Bengal tells us what demographic change does to a state](https://thedossier.in/west-bengal-demographic-change-cost/): French philosopher and mathematician Auguste Comte wasn’t wrong when he said, ‘Demography is destiny’.
- [What the custodians of the Vedas meant by Apaurusheya](https://thedossier.in/what-the-custodians-of-the-vedas-meant-by-apaurusheya/): 'Vedas are nothing but a tool to deceive the masses, designed by Brahmins'.
- [Chicken mandi poster featuring Lord Krishna was not a ‘designer’s mistake’](https://thedossier.in/chicken-mandi-poster-featuring-lord-krishna-not-designers-mistake/): I'm sorry that I'm late in telling you this, but this is what happens when you don't know a language.
- [Homi Bhabha did what America couldn’t](https://thedossier.in/homi-bhabha-did-what-america-couldnt/): Something very significant happened in Tamil Nadu in the first week of April 2026 and you aren’t aware of it.
- [Lord Ayyappa was not a 'local forest deity'](https://thedossier.in/lord-ayyappa-not-local-forest-deity/): When writing history, it is essential that the author undertakes deep research into the subject, or at the very least possesses a sound familiarity with the historical and cultural landscape.
- [Hindu ruling elite and capos of Nazi concentration camps](https://thedossier.in/hindu-ruling-elite-and-capos-of-nazi-concentration-camps/): SS guards rarely physically hit a person in the Nazi concentration camps. They shot them, but that was in extreme cases.
- [The ‘Kerala Story’ is not an exception, but a pattern they refuse to see](https://thedossier.in/the-kerala-story-not-an-exception-but-a-pattern/): Into forced conversions, radicalisation and the global jihad module
- [The great women's reservation swindle](https://thedossier.in/congress-pretended-care-women-reservation/): How Congress spent 40 years pretending to care
- [Chiraiya shows something that doesn’t exist](https://thedossier.in/chiraiya-shows-something-that-doesnt-exist/): Sorry to the fans of Chiraiya, but what you have been told is a lie.
- [Designer rice can re-engineer India’s metabolic future](https://thedossier.in/designer-rice-india-metabolic-future/): White rice isn’t healthy. I hope you know it.
- [In defence of PM Modi](https://thedossier.in/in-defence-of-pm-modi/): In the small but voluble precincts of the Indian Internet, specifically, the corner of X formerly known as Twitter, where men with saffron-tinted display pictures and bios reading ‘Civilizational Hindu | Anti-Woke | Follow Back’ hold court, a curious consensus has emerged.
- [The desecularisation of Hindu festivals is a compulsion now](https://thedossier.in/desecularisation-hindu-festivals-compulsion/): This is it. I can’t take it anymore.
- [Victim paradox has stopped us from recognising Islamic colonialism](https://thedossier.in/victim-paradox-islamic-colonialism/): While I was scrolling through Instagram, I came across a reel in which a Muslim content creator was discussing the failure of liberal intellectuals, pointing out how people were rejoicing in the ongoing attack against Iran by the US and Israel rather than condemning it.
- [Where the petitioners fell flat in the Bihar SIR case](https://thedossier.in/petitioners-failure-bihar-sir-case/): In 2025, the Election Commission of India (ECI) conducted the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in Bihar. It made news.
- [Why Raulane’s takeover by content creators must concern us](https://thedossier.in/raulane-takeover-content-creators/): Faces hidden, yet the Himachali aesthetic alone steals the show.
- [De-Macaulayising the mind: Rajaji, the NEP and Bharat’s structural reorientation](https://thedossier.in/de-macaulayising-mind-rajaji-nep-bharat-reorientation/): In the winter of 1911, as the dust of the Delhi Durbar settled over the plains of Shahjahanabad, King George V laid the foundation stone for a capital that was intended to be an eternal testament to British supremacy.
- [Inside the mind of the jihadist: a psychoanalytic anatomy of Islamist terror](https://thedossier.in/inside-the-jihadist-mind/): For decades, Western intellectuals, journalists, and policymakers have searched obsessively for external explanations for Islamist terrorism. Poverty.
- [The acknowledgement](https://thedossier.in/muslim-testimonies-tell-how-and-why-they-destroyed-hindu-temples/): Muslim testimonies tell how and why they destroyed Hindu temples
- [There’s nothing to celebrate the killing of Islamists who stabbed Wastik](https://thedossier.in/nothing-to-celebrate-killing-islamists-who-stabbed-wastik/): Mohammed Zeeshan and Mohammed Gulfam, the two Islamists who stabbed Ex-Muslim Saleem Wastik on February 27, have been killed in two separate encounters with the Uttar Pradesh police.
- [Right to life seems to be out for a toss](https://thedossier.in/right-to-life-out-for-a-toss/): Last month, I was attending the second day of the Delhi University Literature Festival with my junior when a frantic call shattered the afternoon.
- [It’s Islam that has taken Saleem Wastik to the ICU](https://thedossier.in/islam-saleem-wastik-icu/): You say you are an atheist or agnostic and still alive - you are a Hindu.
- [Why is dharma a necessity?](https://thedossier.in/why-is-dharma-important/): Not everyone goes to the mandir to worship god?
- [How narratives trap us](https://thedossier.in/how-narratives-trap-us/): If you are a fan of Arundhati Roy, you must be aware of a story that she told from the 2002 Gujarat Riots, in which a woman named Sayeeda was caught by a mob and her stomach was ‘ripped open and stuffed with burning rags’.
- [Who is a Hindu?](https://thedossier.in/who-is-a-hindu/): Every great culture and civilization has a clear concept of its self identity.
- [How rage bait is making you ill](https://thedossier.in/how-rage-bait-is-making-you-ill/): I use X occasionally. On 7 February, when I opened my X account, I saw a post from an account named Faarees.
- [Supreme Court’s decision on Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam strengthens Indian democracy](https://thedossier.in/supreme-courts-decision-on-umar-khalid-and-sharjeel-imam-strengthens-indian-democracy/): Every constitutional democracy is defined by its ability to preserve principled distinctions inter dissentum et subversionem, between dissent and disruption; inter protestationem et provocationem, between lawful protest and incitement; and ultimately between civil resistance and organised attempts to undermine constitutional order.
- [How a Hindu researcher revived Kolkata’s Kumbh](https://thedossier.in/how-a-hindu-researcher-revived-kolkatas-kumbh/): I’m sure you’ve heard of the grand Maha Kumbh Mela in Prayagraj. I’m fairly certain you’ve heard of the one in Haridwar.
- [Rahul Gandhi wasted another Parliament session](https://thedossier.in/rahul-gandhi-wasted-another-parliament-session/): Think of your childhood and tell me what your mother would have done if you had brought your friend’s remote control car to your home without asking him.
- [Why won’t IIT Delhi stop hosting left-wing conferences?](https://thedossier.in/why-wont-iit-delhi-stop-hosting-left-wing-conferences/): Do you, like me, believe that our Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) are busy doing critical work? You aren’t wrong.
- [Gone are the freedoms of self-sufficiency, the peace of self-dependence](https://thedossier.in/gone-days-self-dependence/): Taking a bath was a simple activity, back in the 1980s. While many of our homes had bathrooms, men seldom had a bath inside.
- [It’s not easy to be Hindu in Bangladesh](https://thedossier.in/being-hindu-in-bangladesh-book-review/): Purnima Rani Shil, a 12-year-old Hindu girl, was raped on 8 October 2001. Her fault?
- [UGC guidelines are not the first, and they will not be the last](https://thedossier.in/ugc-guidelines-not-the-first-not-the-last/): I have generally avoided writing on UGC guidelines except a couple of posts intended to wake up the GC warriors to what they are doing.
- [The manufacturing of a Mahatma and the father of the nation](https://thedossier.in/manufacturing-of-a-mahatma-and-father-of-the-nation/): If I ask you to think about Gandhi. Mahatma Gandhi is the father of our nation would definitely top the charts of your brain.
- [Depression is the absence of dukkha](https://thedossier.in/depression-is-the-absence-of-dukkha/): Once again going back to the days of my childhood as an anchor in time, I remember a world full of dukkha but empty of depression.
- [Tracing India’s special intensive revision](https://thedossier.in/tracing-indias-special-intensive-revision/): In 2025, the Election Commission of India (ECI) conducted the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in Bihar. It made news.
- [Why didn’t the Kashmiri Hindus fight the Islamists?](https://thedossier.in/why-didnt-the-kashmiri-hindus-fight-the-islamists/): It was precisely on this day in 1990 when the Hindus of Kashmir were made to flee their home state—Kashmir.
- [Dharma’s victory depends on Sahasramukh's death](https://thedossier.in/sahasramukh-is-alive/): On Dussehra every year, we celebrate the triumph of Dharma (righteousness) over Adharma (unrighteousness).
- [Modi-Shah death chant row](https://thedossier.in/modi-shah-death-chant-row/): The Left’s another desperate attempt to stay relevant
- [Your gateway to revisiting oral traditions](https://thedossier.in/reimagining-the-myths-of-himalayan-birds/): Reimagining the Myths of Himalayan Birds
- [The 'prima facie' question](https://thedossier.in/why-umar-khalid-and-sharjeel-imam-are-still-in-jail/): Why Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam are still in jail
- [Can Islam be reformed?](https://thedossier.in/can-islam-be-reformed/): Thousands ask, can Islam be reformed?
- [From Ajmer to RG Kar, delay becomes the new justice](https://thedossier.in/ajmer-rg-kar-delayed-justice/): It’s been more than three decades, and over 100 school and college-going Hindu girls are still waiting for justice.
- [Either this or nothing](https://thedossier.in/dhurandar-set-new-parameter-spy-universe/): Dhurandar has set new parameters for the spy universe
- [What lies buried beneath Hindu conversions?](https://thedossier.in/reason-hindu-conversions/): Contrary to the stories created by the Leftists and Abrahamics, conversions out of Hindu Dharma have not been from the two allegedly most oppressed Hindu castes.
- [Why is Friday so special for the believers?](https://thedossier.in/why-is-friday-so-special-for-the-believers/): On 20 December 2019, Friday, a protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) saw thousands of ‘peaceful’ demonstrators gathering outside the Jama Masjid, after that day’s prayers.
- [How TMC made India look down during Messi’s GOAT tour](https://thedossier.in/messi-tour-kolkata-chaos/): Messi’s three-day GOAT India Tour concluded on 15 December.
- [From Patna to power: Nitin Nabin's gambit](https://thedossier.in/nitin-nabin-gambit/): On the very day Rahul Gandhi stood at Delhi’s Ramlila Maidan on 14 December, raising the allegation of so-called “vote theft” during the Vote Chor, Gaddi Chhod rally, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) announced the appointment of 45-year-old Nitin Nabin from Bihar as its National Working President.
- [Shivanasamudra: when India outpaced Niagara](https://thedossier.in/india-outpaced-niagara/): Most engineering students who visit Shivanasamudra Hydroelectric Station are never told its significance and how India taught the world the long-distance transmission of electricity.
- [When Nehru betrayed Patel](https://thedossier.in/when-nehru-betrayed-patel/): They say people realise the value of an individual only once he or she is gone. Alas, this cannot be said for India’s first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru.
- [INDIA Bloc doesn't want the judiciary to uphold the Constitution](https://thedossier.in/india-bloc-war-against-judiciary/): Everything about the recent impeachment notice submitted by INDIA bloc MPs against Justice GR Swaminathan, a judge of the Madras High Court, is shameful.
- [Understanding the current mental outlook of the Hindus](https://thedossier.in/current-mental-outlook-hindus/): Arthur Koestler wrote, "Yet to this day a large number of Indians give that curious impression of never having quite grown up, of a rather moving, child-like quality, an arrested development not of the intellect but of the character, which seems somehow blurred, soft, undecided and vague, without proper contour and individuality.
- [When Gandhi defended Buddhism against Christianity](https://thedossier.in/when-gandhi-defended-buddhism-against-christianity/): If I found myself entirely absorbed in the service of the community, the reason behind it was my desire for self-realization.
- [What the Kafirs do not understand about Islam](https://thedossier.in/what-the-kafirs-do-not-understand-about-islam/): In September 2021, addressing a seminar organised by Pune-based Global Strategic Policy Foundation, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) Chief Sri Mohan Bhagwat said, “Hindus and Muslims in India have common ancestors.
- [The reality of castes in India](https://thedossier.in/the-reality-of-castes-in-india/): Today casteism is rampant. It is a new phenomenon. Old India had castes but no casteism.
- [What the Kashmiri Muslims’ boycott of Sonu Nigam tells us](https://thedossier.in/what-the-kashmiri-muslims-boycott-of-sonu-nigam-tells-us/): Padma Shri awardee and one of the most versatile singers of Bollywood, Sonu Nigam, performed at the NDTV Good Times Concert, held at the Sher-i-Kashmir International Conference Centre (SKICC), Dal Lake, on 26 October 2025.
- [How Communism and Islamism kept Hinduism on defensive](https://thedossier.in/how-communism-and-islamism-kept-hinduism-on-defensive/): This United Front—Islamism and Communism—functions mostly at a psychological level.
- [Neeraj Ghaywan’s manipulation](https://thedossier.in/how-ambedkarite-director-demeans-upper-castes/): How Ambedkarite director demeans upper castes
- [The real source of wealth explained](https://thedossier.in/the-real-source-of-wealth-explained/): Masses, kings, philosophers, economists and now politicians have always been puzzled about the sources of wealth.
- [The Bengali who eats meat during Durga Puja is no less a Hindu](https://thedossier.in/bengali-meat-durga-puja-hindu/): Every Navratri, someone says it again: meat must not be eaten while the Devi is worshipped.
- [Part II: Who wrote the caste question](https://thedossier.in/caste-question-harvard-iit/): 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.](https://thedossier.in/indian-express-delhi-protests-peaceful-record/): On 14 October 2026, The Indian Express published an opinion piece by Faizan Mustafa and Ayan Aditya Giri, “When the state paints dissent as disorder” (also run as “In Delhi protests, an erosion of liberty”).
- [Part I: The caste question after a death](https://thedossier.in/caste-question-after-a-death-iit-bombay/): 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](https://thedossier.in/cjp-protest-vote-chori-supreme-court-cec/): The protesters say India’s institutions are finished. The Supreme Court spent the week hearing them out.
- [Blame the rapist, not the Goddess](https://thedossier.in/blame-the-rapist-not-the-goddess-navratri/): Every year as Navratri approaches, a familiar set of captions floods social media: "They worship goddesses but rape women."
- [Starlink must meet India’s terms](https://thedossier.in/starlink-india-terms-musk-ambani/): Elon Musk has a gift for dressing up a sales pitch as charity. Starlink in India is his latest performance.
- [Part III: India for sale](https://thedossier.in/india-for-sale-part-three/): The cultural front — magazines, books, cinema and the manufacture of legitimacy
- [Amitav Ghosh’s sweeper-woman doesn’t need rescuing](https://thedossier.in/amitav-ghosh-calcutta-chromosome-mangala/): In Amitav Ghosh's The Calcutta Chromosome, Elijah Farley visits D. D. Cunningham's laboratory in Calcutta.
- [America’s PERM freeze barely hurts India, and quietly flatters it](https://thedossier.in/us-perm-freeze-india-it-h1b-green-card/): Few reactions to Washington’s latest move have been as misleading as that of the senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh.
- [Why wait for the verdict when there’s a camera?](https://thedossier.in/opposition-march-supreme-court-gyanesh-kumar/): On 12 October 2026, the INDIA bloc marched on the Supreme Court. Delhi closed entry and exit at six metro stations for it.
- [The process is the punishment](https://thedossier.in/sc-st-act-fir-iit-bombay-process-is-punishment/): The SC/ST Act lets an FIR do a verdict's work. At IIT Bombay, the penalty came before the hearing.
- [Pratap Bhanu Mehta wants to defend democracy by making institutions surrender to the street](https://thedossier.in/pratap-bhanu-mehta-institutions-surrender-street/): The Cockroach Janta Party has managed to combine "two sources of public anger", the conduct of exams and the conduct of the SIR, wrote Pratap Bhanu Mehta in his Indian Express column of 10 October.
- [Why so selective, UN?](https://thedossier.in/un-selective-outrage-cjp-delhi-protest-france/): On 7 October 2026, the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) wrote to the Delhi Police about a protest it planned to hold at Jantar Mantar three days later, to demand the removal of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar.
- [Behind sacred walls](https://thedossier.in/kerala-nuns-abhaya-franco-mulakkal/): Three decades of deaths and expulsions, and a Church that still answers only to itself
- [At four, Bengal wakes to celebrate the cosmic war](https://thedossier.in/durga-puja-politics-bengal/): For three centuries, many have tried to own Durga Puja. None has.
- [India didn’t delete 130 million voters. It found where they moved. ](https://thedossier.in/sir-130-million-voters-deleted-explained/): "130 million Indians removed from voting." That is the line now travelling around the world, in thumbnails and captions and earnest threads.
- [The case against the SIR starts from its conclusion ](https://thedossier.in/sir-case-starts-with-conclusion/): ON 5 OCTOBER 2026, the Supreme Court declined to suspend the Chief Election Commissioner on the strength of a newspaper report.
- [A senior advocate, a smiley and a burning court](https://thedossier.in/a-senior-advocate-a-smiley-and-a-burning-court/): Senior Advocates are not, as a rule, given to emojis. So I studied Sanjoy Ghose's recent post with some care.
- [Had Smit Machchhar died, the ‘saffron terror’ smear was ready](https://thedossier.in/had-smit-machchhar-died-saffron-terror-smear-was-ready/): An Omani co-pilot attacked an Indian captain at 30,000 feet. Wounded, the captain still opened the door.
- [The verses no one will quote about the flydubai attack](https://thedossier.in/verses-no-one-will-quote-about-flydubai-attack/): So, it’s out in public now that the co-pilot who attacked Captain Smit Machchhar with an emergency crash axe on flydubai flight FZ1073 is Hamam al-Hammami, an Omani national.
- [When a broken promise becomes a crime](https://thedossier.in/section-69-bns-false-promise-of-marriage/): Courts are deciding what India's new false-promise-of-marriage law means, while a challenge to whether it should exist at all has sat unheard for two years.
- [Gandhi's 'Hey Ram' to Congress's 'Rich Ram'](https://thedossier.in/gandhi-hey-ram-congress-rich-ram-revanth-reddy/): On Monday, Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy of the Congress offered a theology of his own.
- [Part II: India for sale](https://thedossier.in/india-for-sale-part-two/): The institution — Ford, Rockefeller and the architecture of development
- [Stabbed, he still saved the plane. The world's media called it a brawl.](https://thedossier.in/smit-machchhar-flydubai-stabbed-media-called-it-brawl/): You must be aware by now of the flydubai flight case.
- [Page 112: How Khudiram became a terrorist in a Bengal schoolbook ](https://thedossier.in/khudiram-terrorist-bengal-textbook/): How Rowlatt's word outlived the empire, and love of the land became “jingoism”
- [Every Indian town should publish its land balance sheet](https://thedossier.in/indian-towns-land-balance-sheet/): India has millions of acres of land that exist inside the boundaries of cities, towns and villages but contribute remarkably little to the economy around them.
- [Can a settlement wipe out a conviction?](https://thedossier.in/can-a-settlement-wipe-out-a-conviction/): What Indian law actually says about compromise and quashing
- [Our courts have stopped asking why](https://thedossier.in/courts-stopped-asking-why-ajeet-bharti/): From Ajeet Bharti to Nupur Sharma to Waseem Rizvi, judges look only at what was said
- [Turn it down: Badrinath is not a concert venue](https://thedossier.in/turn-it-down-badrinath-is-not-a-concert-venue/): There are some places where silence is not an absence of sound but itself a form of worship.
- [How Hindustan Times selectively framed IIT death data](https://thedossier.in/how-hindustan-times-selectively-framed-iit-death-data/): This week’s news cycle is revolving around the unfortunate suicide of a young student at IIT Bombay.
- [Jamui was not 'moral policing'](https://thedossier.in/jamui-was-not-moral-policing/): What exactly does a girl have to do to be allowed to come home safely?
- [How Bollywood's deepfake lawsuits are quietly writing India's AI law](https://thedossier.in/bollywood-deepfake-lawsuits-india-ai-law/): In the weeks before he sued, a fake version of Anil Kapoor was making the rounds online.
- [Part I: India for sale](https://thedossier.in/india-for-sale/): The state — intelligence, political money and strategic dependence, 1947–1991
- [Read it before you burn it](https://thedossier.in/nep-2020-read-it-before-you-burn-it/): India’s student Left wants to roll back the country’s biggest education reform in a generation. Its case does not survive contact with the document.
- [Hanging remains the method of execution — for now](https://thedossier.in/hanging-remains-the-method-of-execution-for-now/): In 2017, Senior Advocate Rishi Malhotra approached the Supreme Court challenging the constitutional validity of hanging as the only method of executing a death sentence under Section 354(5) of the CrPC (now mirrored in Section 393(5) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita).
- [The homework the warriors skipped](https://thedossier.in/hashtag-kshatriyas-a-beginners-guide-to-losing-slowly/): India's self-appointed general-category activists intend to demolish a structure built over a century and a half. They have not yet worked out how it was put up.
- [Who speaks for the girl who takes off her hijab?](https://thedossier.in/who-speaks-for-the-girl-who-takes-off-her-hijab/): In the debate about what Indian women should wear, the word "choice" has become a kind of closing argument.
- [Why the Kashmiri Pandits won’t stop getting killed in the Valley](https://thedossier.in/why-kashmiri-pandits-wont-stop-getting-killed-in-the-valley/): In August 2026, a letter began circulating with the kind of detail no distant propagandist could invent.
- [The case of Umar Khalid: how public debate has got it wrong](https://thedossier.in/umar-khalid-case-media-debate-supreme-court/): Personal liberty, in any democracy, is not a favour the government hands out to its citizens. It is a basic right that the state is charged to protect.
- [The farce of measuring Indian democracy ](https://thedossier.in/farce-measuring-indian-democracy/): There has been much debate, of varying intensity, about the degree of ‘freedom’ that exists in India.
- [Jauhar must be judged within its context](https://thedossier.in/jauhar-in-context/): A recurring debate surrounding Rajput history re-emerged following remarks made by actress Swara Bhaskar at an event titled “Woman, Life, Freedom”.
- [Stop searching for the West in ancient India](https://thedossier.in/stop-searching-west-in-ancient-india/): Among the many methods adopted to save Hindus from Hinduism – i.e., polytheistic idolatry that would lead to hellfire – is Roberto de Nobili’s (1577-1656) adopting the outward appearance of a Brahmin, complete with shorn head and shikha, sacred thread and even vegetarian diet, and presenting himself as a Roman Brahmin.
- [The arithmetic of division: how the cure preserved the disease?](https://thedossier.in/the-arithmetic-of-division/): The Indian state promised to abolish caste while attaching ever greater rewards to caste identity
- [Does the Indian state stand with the weak through its caste policies?](https://thedossier.in/indian-state-caste-policies-barbarik/): What we need to learn from the story of Barbarik
- [The aurat bazaar](https://thedossier.in/the-aurat-bazaar/): It is easy to condemn jauhar eight centuries later. It is harder to confront the alternative.
- [Swiping left from the centre](https://thedossier.in/rewiring-raga/): The rewiring of RaGa
- [How the politics of the oppressor–oppressed came into existence](https://thedossier.in/oppressor-oppressed-politics/): In India, a Savarna can never be a victim of caste discrimination.
- [The Hindu’s editorial on UN CERD’s report on India does not survive the evidence](https://thedossier.in/the-hindu-editorial-un-cerd-report-india-evidence/): On 30 August 2026, The Hindu, referred to by millions of UPSC aspirants, published an editorial titled ‘State of exception: On India, the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) report’.
- [Brahmanical patriarchy: the making of a political category](https://thedossier.in/brahmanical-patriarchy-making-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 to its embedded patriarchal instincts has once again brought to surface the political term "Brahmanical Patriarchy".
- [The questions ThePrint’s TISS story doesn’t ask](https://thedossier.in/theprints-tiss-story-unasked-questions/): ThePrint’s latest report on the nine Tata Institute of Social Sciences students booked over the 12 October 2025 tribute to G.N.
- [UPI went digital. Now cash goes plastic.](https://thedossier.in/cash-goes-plastic/): If you'd told someone five years ago that India, the country running the world's largest real-time digital payments system, would actually spend 2026 talking seriously about plastic currency notes, they'd probably have laughed.
- [Process reforms vs big bang](https://thedossier.in/process-reforms-developed-india/): Micro changes are delivering macro results
- [What Rahul Gandhi gets wrong about patriarchy](https://thedossier.in/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 “Chhatron Ki Goonj” outreach programme.
- [How India’s critical media actually works](https://thedossier.in/how-indias-critical-media-actually-works/): Funding, serving interests and the politics behind independent media
- [Being Gen Z isn’t a free pass to do anything](https://thedossier.in/being-gen-z-isnt-a-free-pass-to-do-anything/): In the high-altitude, strategically sensitive terrain of Ladakh, near the Minimarg checkpoint on the Kargil route, a viral video captured something far more disturbing than a tourist being temporarily stopped on a road.
- [Is this the end to illegal coaching centres?](https://thedossier.in/sc-illegal-coaching-centres-jaipur/): In a residential neighbourhood of Jaipur, coaching centres have been running for years in buildings meant for homes.
- [Why Vande Mataram remains contested even after 80 years](https://thedossier.in/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.
- [Foreign-funded NGOs, fuelled activism](https://thedossier.in/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”.
- [Pakistan’s fourfather problem](https://thedossier.in/pakistans-fourfather-problem/): Why this Islamic republic has struggled with its identity
- [The solution to India’s floods](https://thedossier.in/the-solution-to-indias-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.'
- [Why is Japan quietly building an industrial corridor through India's Northeast?](https://thedossier.in/japan-industrial-corridor-northeast-india/): 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 roughly 120 cooperation memoranda, around ¥2 trillion in fresh investment decisions, a long-term target of ¥10 trillion in Japanese private capital over the coming decade.
- [The hypocrisy of the US](https://thedossier.in/fara-vs-fcra-us-hypocrisy/): FARA is sovereignty, FCRA is persecution? The theo-politics of American pressure on India
- [Introduction to Vedanta](https://thedossier.in/introduction-to-vedanta/): The Vedas are neither books nor the utterances of persons, but the accumulated treasury of spiritual laws that have existed throughout time.
- [Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam’s supporters will never tell you about these people](https://thedossier.in/umar-khalid-sharjeel-imam-supporters-never-tell-you/): Alok Tiwari. Deepak Kumar. Dinesh Kumar. Ratan Lal. Naresh Kumar Saini. Vinod Kumar. Ankit Sharma. Sanjeet Thakur. Rahul Solanki. Rahul Thakur. Prem Singh.
- [Why facts lose to patterns](https://thedossier.in/why-facts-lose-to-patterns/): Two things about man’s mind: 1. it is lazy, and 2. like everything else in nature, it also minimises energy consumption and effort.
- [Socialism ensures paper leaks never stop](https://thedossier.in/socialism-ensures-paper-leaks-never-stop/): I read a book 5-6 years ago.
- [The solution to reservation lies in economic freedom](https://thedossier.in/solution-reservation-economic-freedom/): India’s reservation system is the world’s largest illusion, a mass delusion.
- [How the Supreme Court decides what is essential in Hinduism](https://thedossier.in/how-supreme-court-decides-essential-hinduism/): On a cool September evening in 2018, outside the Sabarimala hill shrine in Kerala, a line of policemen stood between two crowds that would not look at each other.
- [The forgotten diary of Syama Prasad Mookerjee](https://thedossier.in/the-forgotten-diary-of-syama-prasad-mookerjee/): This forgotten diary illuminates our understanding of the pre-independence past and makes us ponder the arenas of nationhood and religion.
- [CJP did not call off its protest. It ran away.](https://thedossier.in/cjp-ran-away/): Pradhan’s resignation changes nothing. Article 311 reform and the 130th Amendment could - but INDI Alliance doesn’t want them.
- [How the left manufactures a revolution](https://thedossier.in/how-the-left-manufactures-a-revolution/): Every few years a protest arrives that we are told is spontaneous. Nobody organised it, we are informed; it simply erupted.
- [Migration and the limits of mercy](https://thedossier.in/migration-and-the-limits-of-mercy/): Your compassion has a cost. Who is paying it?
- [The 2026 FCRA Amendment Bill is inevitable](https://thedossier.in/2026-fcra-amendment-bill-inevitable/): Foreign funding, missionary networks and India's fight for sovereignty
- [Why India should designate Hamas a terrorist organisation](https://thedossier.in/why-india-should-designate-hamas-a-terrorist-organisation/): In the last week of June 2026, Congress Parliamentary Party Chairperson Sonia Gandhi, who is often regarded as the "Super PM" during the UPA era, wrote an article in The Indian Express, the very epitome of neutrality.
- [The Ayodhya verdict was not based on religion, but on evidence](https://thedossier.in/ayodhya-verdict-based-on-evidence-not-religion/): Every year on 6 December, many claim that the Ayodhya Temple verdict was delivered on the basis of religion rather than facts.
- [Jaswant Singh Khalra was a separatist.](https://thedossier.in/jaswant-singh-khalra-was-a-separatist/): Human rights activist, human rights activist, human rights activist.
- [The long game: India's maritime vision and why the world is still reading the wrong board](https://thedossier.in/india-maritime-vision/): There is a particular kind of milestone that does not announce itself with noise.
- [Once a dhimmi, always a dhimmi](https://thedossier.in/once-a-dhimmi-always-a-dhimmi/): What happens once a person becomes a dhimmi? He always remains a dhimmi.
- [How soft power flipped the rules of global influence](https://thedossier.in/how-soft-power-flipped-the-rules-of-global-influence/): In September 2021, BTS stood before the United Nations General Assembly—not as entertainers invited to perform, but as representatives of a generation.
- [Dear WhatsApp, stay within your limits](https://thedossier.in/dear-whatsapp-stay-within-your-limits/): Meta has never been especially sentimental about originality.
- [Why neither Modi nor Shehbaz can end India-Pakistan hostility](https://thedossier.in/why-neither-modi-nor-shehbaz-can-end-india-pakistan-hostility/): Every few years, another appeal urges India and Pakistan to bury the past and embrace the future.
- [How India celebrates menstruation](https://thedossier.in/how-india-celebrates-menstruation/): Once every year, at Kamakhya, one of the most profound celebrations of womanhood unfolds. The doors of the temple close. Not because of the disaster.
- [Is Vijay playing with the Hindus?](https://thedossier.in/vijay-hindu-politics/): There is something interesting happening in the TVK-led Tamil Nadu.
- [If rapists and criminals are allowed in temples, why not menstruating women?](https://thedossier.in/why-menstruating-women-are-not-allowed-in-temples/): If rapists and criminals are allowed in temples, why not menstruating women?
- [Mr Kharge shouldn't get angry at 'useless fellows'](https://thedossier.in/kharge-useless-fellows-congress-workers/): Two days ago, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge said something that Congress leaders might well say about their party workers in private: 'useless fellows.'
- [While US labs focus on text, can India leapfrog to the world models frontier?](https://thedossier.in/india-world-models-ai-sovereignty/): A four-stage blueprint for AI sovereignty
- [What fear of looking racist did to Britain](https://thedossier.in/what-fear-of-looking-racist-did-to-britain/): British MP Rupert Lowe is out with The Rape Gang Inquiry Report.
- [Why the TMC collapsed so rapidly](https://thedossier.in/why-tmc-collapsed-so-rapidly/): Anyone who was present in Kolkata after May 5, 2026, would have certainly noticed the following.
- [The unanswered question in the NCERT ‘Dancing Girl’ controversy](https://thedossier.in/unanswered-question-ncert-dancing-girl-controversy/): If you happen to visit the National Museum in Delhi someday. Try to locate one glass case in the Harappan gallery.
- [Hold my beer, docs. Where’s the accountability?](https://thedossier.in/doctors-accountability-sejal-pawar-row/): The size she was referring to was not that of the heart or liver, but of the cadaver's penis.
- [The ‘Rs 370 biryani’ remark reveals why modern relationships are failing](https://thedossier.in/rs-370-biryani-remark-modern-relationships-failing/): What is the least a man should hope for after a date? A memorable conversation? A few genuine laughs? The possibility that the girl might want to see him again?
- [Dignity is the least we expect from judges](https://thedossier.in/dignity-is-the-least-we-expect-from-judges/): Tell me, what can happen if, as a young advocate, a bundle of files gets dropped from your hands while a hearing is going on?
- [Why did the 6 June CJP protest fail?](https://thedossier.in/why-did-the-6-june-cjp-protest-fail/): If you happen to meet Saba Naqvi or Arfa Khanum Sherwani someday and ask whether the 6 June 2026 protest of the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) was a “hit” or a “miss.” I am fairly certain that both would agree with the “latter.” As even after getting the permission from the Delhi Police to protest at Jantar Mantar, out of the 22 million followers on Instagram of the party, not even 250 people showed up.
- [The problems with the Cockroach Janta Party](https://thedossier.in/problems-with-cockroach-janta-party/): It should be clear to us now that the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) is not a movement led by Gen Z, but Gen Y.
- [This is why the left hates us](https://thedossier.in/this-is-why-the-left-hates-us/): I used to think the left hates India and so the Hindus. However, it's the opposite. Basically, it hates the Hindus and so does India.
- [How did the Muslims justify the destruction of Hindu temples](https://thedossier.in/muslims-justification-hindu-temple-destruction/): In his celebrated historical work Kitab al-Yamini, Abu Nasr Muhammad ibn Muhammad al Jabbarul-Utbi, who served as the secretary to Mahmud of Ghazni, provides a vivid and detailed account of the conquest of Thaneshwar (present-day Thanesar in Haryana).
- [The Cockroach Janta Party is here to save us](https://thedossier.in/cockroach-janta-party-save-us/): Comrades, if you are unemployed, stressed from paper leaks and want a change in the country, the Cockroach Janata Party is here for you.
- [Isn’t life random?](https://thedossier.in/isnt-life-random/): There is something about life. It is random. When we are born, we meet our family. Then, slowly, we find others. We call them friends.
- [Rahul Dewan: a Hindu unparalleled](https://thedossier.in/rahul-dewan-a-hindu-unparalleled/): Into his life, the Rs 1000 crore Hindu Fund and his vision of a ‘Hindu constitutional state’

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