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Telangana's 'untraceable' Muslims

New Delhi, Sept. 19 -- The ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Telangana has resulted in more than 53 lakh electors being placed on the absent, shifted, dead and duplicate (... Read More


One is right to see Hindutva spectacle as part of the global architecture of the right: Brahma Prakash

New Delhi, Sept. 19 -- Twelve years into three back-to-back BJP governments, much has been written about the political and electoral character of the saffron party. In Spectacle State, academic Brahma... Read More


Aga Syed Ruhullah Mehdi's exit could shake up Kashmir's opposition politics

New Delhi, Sept. 19 -- In May 2020, Aga Syed Ruhullah Mehdi, a senior leader of the Jammu and Kashmir National Conference (NC), was still under house detention when he picked a fight with his own part... Read More


Bhavni Bhavai: As relevant today as in 1981

New Delhi, Sept. 19 -- Some 45 years have passed since this writer first saw that breathtaking film about how "untouchables" lived and died-in poverty, squalor, and abject degradation-once upon a time... Read More


I won't let a robot take the precious amount of intelligence I have: Meg Mason

New Delhi, Sept. 19 -- Meg Mason is a New Zealand-born, Sydney-based writer whose second novel, Sorrow and Bliss, became an international bestseller and was nominated for the Women's Prize for Fiction... Read More


A BRICS balance sheet

New Delhi, Sept. 18 -- BRICS is considered as a bloc of emerging and developing countries looking for a greater voice in a world order still dominated by institutions created by the West. It began as ... Read More


Fencing in juvenile justice

New Delhi, Sept. 18 -- In July this year, four juveniles at a juvenile observation home in Chhattisgarh's Bilaspur escaped, allegedly after killing the watchman on duty. They were all between the ages... Read More


Idle worship

New Delhi, Sept. 18 -- Dear Reader, This week, two stories nudged me to think about the unusual Indian habit of turning politicians into gods, and gods into politicians. The first was a row in Chenn... Read More


A republic's travesty of justice

New Delhi, Sept. 17 -- On September 13, 2026, Umar Khalid completed six years in Tihar Jail. Not one prosecution witness has been examined. There is a particular kind of silence that settles over a c... Read More


Sacrificed to the shrine

New Delhi, Sept. 17 -- Kashmir Chand's two-room tin-roofed house stands on an 18-marla (1 marla=272.25 square feet) plot in Jammu and Kashmir's Reasi district, about 35 kilometres from the renowned Va... Read More