Buddhist have been protesting at Bodh Gaya to repeal the Bodh Gaya Temple Act. The protest is not just a battle against joint Hindu control over their most revered site but is symbolic of a struggle ...

AS IT BECAME CLEAR that Donald Trump had been ousted and Joe Biden was to be the next president of the United States, Anant Goenka tweeted, I hope after Biden’s victory, American news media takes time ...

A foreign filmmaker asked the usual delusional question: “What is the solution—it is so complicated, yeah?” He was trying to pick my brain, while we looked out at the besieged Jenin refugee camp from ...

ON 3 JUNE 1959, Lee Kuan Yew, the general secretary of the People’s Action Party, is congratulated by supporters after winning the first general election in Singapore following the institution of self ...

“THE FUNDAMENTAL NATURE of government is a platform,” the tech billionaire Nandan Nilekani declared in the 2015 book Rebooting India: Realizing a Billion Aspirations, which he co-authored with the ...

IN DECEMBER 1994, MK Dhar, the joint director of the Intelligence Bureau, was travelling with Vijaya Rama Rao, the director of the Central Bureau of Investigation, on a special flight from Delhi to ...

PRIME MINISTER NARENDRA MODI and the larger Hindu-nationalist ecosystem often distinguish between two categories of journalists. The first is that of “news traders”—media persons who are sponsored by ...

THE FIRST FEW PAGES of Jotirao Phule’s Gulamgiri or Slavery, published in 1873 and widely considered to be his most important text, opens with a dedication to “the good people of the United States as ...

Ever the news itself, Republic TV recently hit the headlines after Arnab Goswami, its owner and star anchor, was arrested by the Maharashtra Police, in early November. Goswami was arrested in ...

HOURS BEFORE the fourth cricket Test match between India and Australia for the Border–Gavaskar Trophy, on 9 March, Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived at the Narendra Modi Stadium, in Ahmedabad, ...

THE DOGRA REGIMENTAL CENTRE in Faizabad Cantonment—now renamed Ayodhya Cantonment—is a few kilometres from where the Babri Masjid stood until a Hindu mob demolished it, in December 1992. In 2022, the ...