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Caste, census, and the birth of 'data state'

New Delhi, Aug. 26 -- The BJP's sudden embrace of the caste census marks one of the most striking political reversals in recent Indian history. For over a decade, the party had vehemently opposed cast... Read More


The kids are showing India a new kind of politics

New Delhi, Aug. 21 -- Something remarkable is happening in India. The generation that was expected merely to sit in classrooms, memorise textbooks, and prepare for examinations is beginning to ask a f... Read More


What can the Cockroaches do next?

New Delhi, Aug. 8 -- The BJP has not forgiven itself for Jantar Mantar. Somewhere in the party's internal post-mortems, there will be a version of the question every disciplined machine asks after an ... Read More


The audacity of hope

New Delhi, July 28 -- Few books on contemporary India derive as much of their moral authority from the life of their author asDastan-e-Ummeed.Trained as a radiation oncologist, Vikas Bajpai gave up th... Read More


Who are the real parasites?

New Delhi, June 9 -- It takes a particular kind of audacity-or perhaps a particular kind of insulation from reality-to stand at the apex of a profession that has never produced a single grain of rice,... Read More