Religion Blame the rapist, not the Goddess
Every year as Navratri approaches, a familiar set of captions floods social media: “They worship...
Monthly Archives: October, 2026
Religion 
Politics Starlink must meet India’s terms
Elon Musk has a gift for dressing up a sales pitch as charity. Starlink in...
Politics Part III: India for sale
The cultural front — magazines, books, cinema and the manufacture of legitimacy
Books Amitav Ghosh’s sweeper-woman doesn’t need rescuing
In Amitav Ghosh’s The Calcutta Chromosome, Elijah Farley visits D. D. Cunningham’s laboratory in Calcutta....
Economy America’s PERM freeze barely hurts India, and quietly flatters it
Few reactions to Washington’s latest move have been as misleading as that of the senior...
Politics Why wait for the verdict when there’s a camera?
On 12 October 2026, the INDIA bloc marched on the Supreme Court. Delhi closed entry...
Law The process is the punishment
The SC/ST Act lets an FIR do a verdict’s work. At IIT Bombay, the penalty...
Politics Pratap Bhanu Mehta wants to defend democracy by making institutions surrender to the street
The Cockroach Janta Party has managed to combine “two sources of public anger”, the conduct...
Politics Why so selective, UN?
On 7 October 2026, the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) wrote to the Delhi Police about...
Religion Behind sacred walls
Three decades of deaths and expulsions, and a Church that still answers only to itself
Religion At four, Bengal wakes to celebrate the cosmic war
For three centuries, many have tried to own Durga Puja. None has.
Politics India didn’t delete 130 million voters. It found where they moved.
“130 million Indians removed from voting.” That is the line now travelling around the world,...
