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The Cockroach Janta Party is building a political movement

New Delhi, Aug. 20 -- What happens when a young movement that has just shattered the political ceiling decides that listening to people is more important than asking for their votes? The Cockroach Jan... Read More


A cautionary tale

New Delhi, Aug. 20 -- The over-three-week-long protest of civil services aspirants of Jharkhand showed signs of coming to an end on August 17 when Devendra Nath Mahto, the most prominent face of the p... Read More


What's still wrong with India's tribunal system?

New Delhi, Aug. 20 -- "The form of the administration must be appropriate to the form of the Constitution." When the Supreme Court invoked B.R. Ambedkar's warning at the end of its November 2025 judg... Read More


Why is Smriti Irani back?

New Delhi, Aug. 20 -- Smriti Irani divides opinion, but 22 years in politics have shown she is not seeking universal approval. She has aggressively batted for the BJP, both in Parliament and out on th... Read More


Repeal of farm laws did not resolve the agrarian crisis: Ashok Dhawale

New Delhi, Aug. 20 -- In his Independence Day speech, Prime Minister Narendra Modi stated that his government had protected farmers from global urea price shocks and he exhorted farmers to go "from th... Read More


A visitor's guide to American decline

New Delhi, Aug. 20 -- Ilast visited America in 2022,during my father's finalSpring, andstayed fortwo and a halfmonths,squeezingina visit to Peoria, Illinois, and Boulder, Colorado,formy youngsters. Th... Read More


Ecotourism, minus the eco

New Delhi, Aug. 19 -- Ecotourism came to India in the late 1980s and early 1990s. In 2002, the United Nations launched the International Year of Ecotourism to promote sustainable travel globally. In t... Read More


A dangerous prescription

New Delhi, Aug. 19 -- For more than five decades, India has built a pharmaceutical ecosystem founded on a simple but powerful principle: reward genuine innovation but ensure that life-saving medicines... Read More


The only durable counter-hegemony is federalism: Thomas Blom Hansen

New Delhi, Aug. 19 -- Thomas Blom Hansen is the Reliance-Dhirubhai Ambani Professor of Anthropology at Stanford University. He founded and directed Stanford's Center for South Asia from 2010 to 2017. ... Read More


The Braille Press is next door. So why are these students still without books?

New Delhi, Aug. 19 -- Blind students at one of India's premier institutions for visual disability are four months into the academic year without their complete textbooks. The reason is striking: the N... Read More