Essays

The Long Marcher

MJ Akbar

What India owes to Modi’s war on poverty

Bipolar Nation

Makarand R Paranjape

India has erred in treating Gandhi and Savarkar, or Hind Swaraj and Hindutva, as irreconcilable opposites

How Trump is Making America Weak Again

MJ Akbar

False God

Not Even the Consolation of Baked Alaska

Seema Sirohi

As Trump works out deals with China and Europe and nudges Putin towards peace, where does that leave India?

The End of Islam

Faisal Devji

Is the religion’s journey as an agent of history over?

The RSS Century

Makarand R Paranjape

The incredible story of an organisation that has not shied away from exercising power in the interests of Hindus and India

The Silence Breakers of Kashmir

Ashish Sharma

They were ostracised as informers and denied the dignity of burying their dead in village cemeteries. These surviving family members of victims of terror are finally speaking up and an attentive state is listening to their stories

Divided Over Gaza

Anat Bernstein-Reich

Netanyahu's government hangs by a thread as the Ultra-Orthodox parties walk out while the prolonged conflict keeps widening the political chasm in Israel