Exclusive

Publication

Byline

Vedanta's mining ambitions in Odisha and manufactured consent

New Delhi, Oct. 16 -- Barely a fortnight after the arrest of a prominent tribal leader at the forefront of the anti-mining movement in western Odisha's Niyamgiri region, the billionaire businessman An... Read More


Is the BJP learning to answer Gen Z in Maharashtra?

New Delhi, Oct. 15 -- Vivek Bhimanwar, Chairman of the Maharashtra Public Service Commission (MPSC), was sent on compulsory leave on October 12 after thousands of aspirants staged an 11-day sit-in in ... Read More


Can a revolution outlive its founder?

New Delhi, Oct. 15 -- Cuba After Castro, a documentary produced by BreakThrough News, a US-based news outlet, arrives in Fidel Castro's birth centenary year. Directed by Matthew Belen and Abby Martin,... Read More


When elections become a sham, democracy becomes a shame

New Delhi, Oct. 15 -- The reason democracy is thought to be a stable system of governance and preferred over other forms is it is founded on an implicit bargain between citizens and the state. Politic... Read More


Rahul Gandhi: From nepo kid to first among equals

New Delhi, Oct. 15 -- Whenever Rahul Gandhi's political inheritance comes under scrutiny, the debate invariably gravitates towards dynastic politics: the Gandhi surname, the 140-year-old Congress part... Read More


The unbearable charm of the righteous lawbreaker

New Delhi, Oct. 15 -- The graphic images of Delhi Police's brutality at the October protests, and earlier in July, are deeply unsettling, not least for the brazenness with which the violence was carri... Read More


Why Gyanesh Kumar's exit would cost the BJP

New Delhi, Oct. 15 -- The all-round attack on Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar over allegations that he took decisions, including those related to the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) o... Read More


'How Long Must a Mother Wait?'

New Delhi, Oct. 15 -- Before he went missing, Najeeb, who grew up in Budaun, a medieval city and headquarters of Budaun district in Uttar Pradesh, a seven-hour drive from New Delhi, had reportedly got... Read More


The new darbar

New Delhi, Oct. 15 -- The three-day India Music Retreat organised by Muse Music in Jaipur from September 19-22 was reminiscent, in more ways than one, of music in the days of royal patronage. First, ... Read More


What Karthik Subbaraj's Dorothy is really about

New Delhi, Oct. 15 -- Three moments from Karthik Subbaraj's Dorothy stand out for me. Or maybe 4. No, 10. Or 50. But I will start with the three. One is when Karthi, played by Rishikanth, points a gu... Read More