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As the world debates racist Gandhi, African-Americans had yearned for a Black Gandhi

No one who studies Gandhi should defend his views on race and caste, but that doesn't make him less of an important figure.

India needs an action plan after US troops leave Afghanistan

The consequences of a US withdrawal are mainly of concern to the Afghan people and their neighbours in the region, including us in India.

Move over angry young man, 2018 was ruled by angry young women in Bollywood

In India, 2018 was all about women discovering the revolutionary power of their anger, on screen and off it.

Why Modi govt only boasts about surgical strikes on national security front

The many security follies of the Narendra Modi government in 2018.

Remember Arvind Kejriwal? Here’s how AAP lost the national plot

It seems like a long time ago when the AAP occupied the national political mindspace.

What have Indian malls done to Santa Claus?

Santas at the mall selling discount coupons don't feel like Christmas anymore.

Ram Guha is wrong. Gandhi went from a racist young man to a racist middle-aged man

There is a reason why Ghanaians protested the Gandhi statue and said #GandhiMustFall.

Unlike anti-Congressism, politics of anti-BJPism is still to ripen in 2019

2019 election is going to be all about electoral sanity versus electoral vanity.

BJP has a family problem and it’s not Gandhi-Nehru

Amit Shah rendered BJP workers irrelevant, and they will come back to bite him in 2019.

Heavy debts alone are not driving farmers to suicide

Instead of loan waivers, policy makers need to peel through the layers to figure out what farmers really need.

On Camera

BJP has a problem of plenty in Phase 2. It can only go down from that

BJP’s fate in the second phase of 2024 Lok Sabha election will be decided in Karnataka, Rajasthan, and Maharashtra, where it performed very well in 2019 but faces a stiff competition now.

Kotak Mahindra Bank shares drop 10% after RBI bans it from taking new customers via digital channels

The private lender's shares tumbled to be top Nifty 50 loser after India's central bank barred it from taking on new customers through online and mobile banking channels.

Rafale to Exercise Garuda, a look at Indo-French defence ties as Chief of Defence Staff visits France

Another addition to military cooperation has been the Strategic Space Dialogue, inaugurated in Paris in 2023. Last month, India participated as an observer to France’s AsterX.

These 6 states are key for Modi’s ‘400 paar’ target. They’re also where Opposition can stop him

While this contest looks so predictable in large swathes of our political landscape, it is also more keenly contested than 2019 in some states.