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America under Trump — more than democratic backsliding, less than a right-wing revolution

The attempted revolution faces three structural limits, and is likely to falter.

Lying politicians and their mounting challenges in competitive ‘revdi’ politics

PM Modi started in right earnest, attacking the ‘revdi’ politics. That could have been his legacy. However, he opted for survival and started outmatching his Opposition.

India is having a civil engineering crisis. Mumbai to Bihar, bridges to byways, highways to setu

The pace of development is very fast so perhaps the quality and quantity of the material, our expertise, our capacity, is not matching what is required, says Manoranjan Parida, President of Indian Road Congress.

Delhi riots conspiracy case trial is caught in a loop—500+ dates, 160+ adjournments and counting

New Delhi: Five years ago, the national capital witnessed one of the deadliest Hindu-Muslim riots in post-Partition history. For three days, northeast Delhi burned...

America gifted China its rare-earth monopoly — and India helped too

The rare-earth crisis shows how misplaced government policies and corporate greed can collude to create a strategic crisis.

JNU—the making and unmaking of an Indian university

JNU was meant to be an ‘entirely new type of university’ with a robust spirit of critique. Its anti-establishment character has, however, changed dramatically, especially in last 10 yrs.

A cough syrup’s trail of death, Kanchipuram to Chhindwara. ‘Son’s life cost Rs 30’

A chain of failures from a Tamil Nadu factory to clinics in Chhindwara killed 24 children. Coldrif tragedy exposes collapsed manufacturing standards and regulatory negligence.

Delhi elderly have a lift problem. And they are fighting neighbours in RWA groups, courts

Delhi’s lift policy was meant to make life easier for the elderly, but it’s pitted neighbours against each other. Some need lifts for mobility, others fear losing light and privacy.

Shoe attack on CJI Gavai shows how caste prejudice flourishes at the top of the Indian state

What hope is there for Dalits when the YouTuber who whipped up the hysteria against CJI BR Gavai boasts on social media after a visit to the police station that ‘the system is ours’?

1948 need not define Gaza’s destiny. Arabs and Israelis must learn to live together

When Israelis pushed out Arabs in 1948, they didn’t think that embittered refugees would turn into a permanent threat to their new state. This was a catastrophic miscalculation.

On Camera

Nur Jahan to Chand Bibi—Indian women in sports have been erased from history

Dice have been found dating to the Bronze Age in various Harappan sites in present-day northwest India and throughout Pakistan. And it’s very possible that some had female owners.

Vodafone Idea AGR case, explained: SC breather to cash-strapped telco & what it means for industry

Telecom industry keeping close tabs on the case. Government is single largest shareholder in Vodafone Idea, at 49 percent.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.