Politics Part I: The vote that can say only one thing
* This is the first in a series on how India elects and governs itself....
Monthly Archives: October, 2026
Politics 
Politics He said ‘regime change’
PRASHANT BHUSHAN leaned towards the microphone at the Press Club of India on 15 October....
Culture The sound of a qawwali for Bhagwan Ram’s wedding was a choice
Mangal Rang was released on 25 October, eleven days before Nitesh Tiwari’s Ramayana reaches theatres....
Politics Sharjeel Imam calls nationalism idolatry, then builds a nation of his own
Sharjeel Imam, the left’s blue-eyed boy, though he says it has seldom loved him back,...
Politics Who gains when the Cockroach Janta Party stays off the ballot?
ON 12 OCTOBER the Delhi Police told the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) that Jantar Mantar...
Politics Neha Bora and the franchise that never chose India
Bose challenged India’s communists in 1928. AISA still hasn’t answered.
Law It was never just speech
Sharjeel Imam has been in custody since 28 January 2020: six years and nearly nine...
Culture In Almora, Ravan never burns alone
The town’s mohallas build two dozen of Ravan’s allies, and burn them together on Dussehra
Religion They carved statues too
The myth of a primitive West flatters Indians. It hides what prophetic monotheism destroyed, and...
Religion The Bengali who eats meat during Durga Puja is no less a Hindu
Every Navratri, someone says it again: meat must not be eaten while the Devi is...
Society Part II: Who wrote the caste question
An Indian sociologist’s untested idea went to Harvard as a hypothesis and came back as...
Politics An Indian Express op-ed calls the protests peaceful. The record says otherwise.
On 14 October 2026, The Indian Express published an opinion piece by Faizan Mustafa and...
Caste Part I: The caste question after a death
When a student dies on an Indian campus, the question is no longer how it...
Politics Heads we win, tails it’s rigged
The protesters say India’s institutions are finished. The Supreme Court spent the week hearing them...
