New Delhi, June 23 -- In Belfast last week, a Sudanese asylum seeker horrifically attacked a man in his 40s, blinding him in one eye and slashing his face and back with a kitchen knife. Here are a few... Read More
New Delhi, June 23 -- "Self-hating Hindu". For some time now, one keeps encountering this phrase. It appears in speeches, social media posts, and political arguments. Yet it is rarely defined with any... Read More
New Delhi, June 22 -- In this episode of SpeakEasy with Amit Baruah, Akhilesh Yadav, President of the Samajwadi Party and former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, discusses the high-stakes political ba... Read More
New Delhi, June 22 -- It is the middle of the night inPeddi. Achiyamma, played by Janhvi Kapoor, drives an open jeep into a field, takes a log of wood, disrobes the pallu from her two-piece sari, and ... Read More
New Delhi, June 22 -- The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) has made a strong case for dialogue with "the people of Pakistan". While RSS functionaries insist there is "nothing new" in this position, d... Read More
New Delhi, June 22 -- Qatar's recent role in brokering a peace deal, ending the US-Iran war after over 100 days of fighting, once again demonstrates the extraordinary diplomatic influence of a small G... Read More
New Delhi, June 22 -- The just-concluded annual Bonn Climate Change Conference is being described as another gridlocked end to an endless round of climate negotiations. The operational mechanism for g... Read More
New Delhi, June 22 -- Journalist and cartoonist Joe Sacco's The Once and Future Riot unsettled me for a reason other than those Penguin Random House India cited for not distributing his book in the In... Read More
New Delhi, June 22 -- The tiger did not know it had become a governance problem. For months, Forest Department staff tracked its movements across a fragmented mosaic of farms, roads, villages, and re... Read More
New Delhi, June 21 -- The Narendra Modi government's decision to replace the United Progressive Alliance-era Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) with the Viksit Bharat-Gua... Read More