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How infusion of drugs, arms, and insurgents into electoral system redefined India’s Northeast

Avinash Paliwal - September 16, 2024

Don’t dismiss religious sentiments of Indians in US, UK. It affects middle class here

Amar Chitra Katha promises to make history fun. It pushes upper-caste middle-class hegemony

How the West protects and nurtures its intellectual sepoys in India

Nazi propaganda isn’t dead, it now happens on WhatsApp

Shivam Shankar Singh - February 17, 2019

From BJP to Congress, political parties understand Nazi minister Joseph Goebbels' mantra that people will believe a lie if repeated often enough.

The IITs have a long history of systematically othering Dalit students

Yashica Dutt - February 17, 2019

The toxic belief that ‘quota students’ are innately less able than ‘mainstream students’ is at the heart of this caste-based exclusion.

Jallianwala Bagh massacre: ‘Amidst hundreds of corpses, I passed my night, crying and watching’

Kim A. Wagner - February 17, 2019

As the bodies and crowds blocked the exits, bullets would ricochet off the surrounding walls, or fragment, and injure more people.

What would happen to the world if China becomes the next US

Bruno Macaes - February 10, 2019

Where is China headed? Here are four possible scenarios.

Jinnah felt Pakistani & Indian soldiers would fight side by side against invaders

Kuldip Nayar - February 10, 2019

Journalist Kuldip Nayar recounts Lal Bahadur Shastri saying Kashmir may have had a different fate if what Jinnah believed had come true.

Selfless national interest doesn’t quite drive corporate-politician ties: Ratan Tata

Ratan Tata - February 9, 2019

Money's corrupting role in Indian politics has only grown since the country's independence, writes Ratan Tata

What a bra & panty business park near Visakhapatnam can teach Modi about job creation

Goutam Das - February 4, 2019

The park is a textbook case on how clustering can make smaller companies competitive and more productive, and enable them to generate employment.

By 2017, Modi had belied the hopes he raised in 2014

Ruchir Sharma - February 3, 2019

Modi rapidly expanded same welfare schemes he had called a leading symbol of India’s economic underachievement under the Congress.

Some sects of Hinduism encourage sex during your periods

Nithin Sridhar - February 3, 2019

Menstrual blood is, in fact, considered pure and sacred, and plays a very important role in certain Tantric rituals.

Why nobody sat on the same sofa as Sonia Gandhi

Hardeep Puri - February 2, 2019

Many of us have been witness to this almost feudal style of functioning that has come to define the Sonia Gandhi era in the Congress.

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Book Excerpts

How infusion of drugs, arms, and insurgents into electoral system redefined India’s Northeast

Don’t dismiss religious sentiments of Indians in US, UK. It affects middle class here

Amar Chitra Katha promises to make history fun. It pushes upper-caste middle-class hegemony

How the West protects and nurtures its intellectual sepoys in India

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Jats and Dalits in Haryana are voting differently. There is a growing tide for INDIA

Philanthropic collaborations can achieve big change. Domestic investors still hold back

China is elevating relations with Africa. Why its $51 billion funding is highly misleading

Economy

India’s growth engines have moved from north to south, with states like Karnataka & AP in driver’s seat

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Not just engines, Tejas Mk-1A delivery could be hit over key Danish part, now on export blacklist

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BJP’s Northeast policy has lit new fires & reopened old wounds. And it still won’t blink

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