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The Year Ahead: Can regional parties stay the course?

India, Jan. 1 -- In India, regional parties are not mere footnotes to national politics; they lie at the heart of its bewildering but pivotal political diversity. Outside the sphere of the two nation... Read More


The Year That Was: Can regional parties stay the course?

India, Jan. 1 -- In India, regional parties are not mere footnotes to national politics; they lie at the heart of its bewildering but pivotal political diversity. Outside the sphere of the two nation... Read More


can they stay the course?

India, Jan. 1 -- In India, regional parties are not mere footnotes to national politics; they lie at the heart of its bewildering but pivotal political diversity. Outside the sphere of the two nationa... Read More


war, warnings & a new doctrine

India, Dec. 31 -- At 1.04am on May 7, Indian forces launched precision strikes at nine locations in Pakistan and Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir with a mix of missiles and smart munitions fired by aircraft ... Read More


Dhrubo Jyoti picks their favourite read of 2025

India, Dec. 26 -- If there's a crisis of reading and reason in the world today, a large chunk of the blame must rest on the shoulders of the social media companies whose products once promised to demo... Read More


'A caste census cannot achieve social justice'

India, Nov. 29 -- This is your third book in almost a year, after your release from jail. How did you get any writing done in what must have been difficult conditions? This was a difficult period beca... Read More


'It's felt like starting a band': Behind the scenes of the new magazine, Equator

India, Nov. 21 -- A magazine can be a wondrous thing. It offers shelter to ideas and narratives that might otherwise scatter, furnishing an address where stories and perspectives live under one roof. ... Read More


Looking beyond the Mandal versus Kamandal paradigm

India, Nov. 16 -- Lalu Prasad and Nitish Kumar were already drifting apart by the time spring arrived in 1994. The two university politics comrades were still in the same party - the famously unwieldy... Read More


Bihar elections: Looking beyond the Mandal versus Kamandal paradigm

India, Nov. 15 -- Lalu Prasad and Nitish Kumar were already drifting apart by the time spring arrived in 1994. The two university politics comrades were still in the same party - the famously unwieldy... Read More


What swung the votes in Bihar polls: Nitish Kumar

India, Nov. 15 -- When Nitish Kumar first took oath as the chief minister of India's second-most populous state in March 2000, there were no smartphones or Aadhaar cards, internet services were largel... Read More