The online Indian news portal, The Wire, carries this report of a shooting inside a moving train (the Jaipur-to-Mumbai express) in the early morning of July 31, about
Commenting on the BJP’s defeat in a crucial regional election in Karnataka, one of India’s southern states, the columnist Mukul Kesavan writes in The Telegraph of Kolkata:
“The
What India is to Asia, Nigeria is to Africa and Brazil to Latin America. In numbers relative to their continent, in the diversity of their populations, and in democratic aspirations,
India: The Modi Question, a two-part BBC documentary shown in the UK during the second half of January, “cannot” be seen in India. The Indian government has invoked emergency
Often still recited in morning assemblies in several government and secular schools in north India, the Hindustani prayer, Lab Pe Aati Hai Dua (literally “Prayer that comes to the lips”
Everyone hanging on to the idea of a democratic and plural India has been heartened by the frank words with which a young Muslim student in a reputed institute of
About thirty-five km south of Gujarat’s capital, Ahmedabad, in the direction of the great educational and industrial city of Vadodara (previously spelt as Baroda), lies a small village
On June 2, 1953, when young Elizabeth was crowned queen of the U.K., I was just about nineteen. It was big news of course, including in New Delhi, where
One of the best articles on free India’s 75th birthday is this one in the Indian Express by Vikram Patel, professor of global health at Harvard Medical School:
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Reports have appeared in the Indian media of a fast unto death evidently begun in prison by the 56-year-old Kashmiri leader, Yasin Malik. The headline to a story
Now nearly 94, Noam Chomksy, the intellectual giant, is also a famous foe of supremacy, possibly the world’s best-known and most persistent foe. He characterizes what is happening
Was there any other time when so many countries seemed to be skidding downhill simultaneously? Let’s start with some of India’s neighbours. Here is what columnist Zahid Hussain
