Politics Part III: India for sale
The cultural front — magazines, books, cinema and the manufacture of legitimacy
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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 and exit at six metro stations for it. Rahul and...
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 of exams and the conduct of the SIR, wrote Pratap...
Politics Why so selective, UN?
On 7 October 2026, the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) wrote to the Delhi Police about a protest it planned to hold at Jantar Mantar three...
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, in thumbnails and captions and earnest threads. Let’s see where...
Politics The case against the SIR starts from its conclusion
ON 5 OCTOBER 2026, the Supreme Court declined to suspend the Chief Election Commissioner on the strength of a newspaper report. The same day, it...
Politics Had Smit Machchhar died, the ‘saffron terror’ smear was ready
An Omani co-pilot attacked an Indian captain at 30,000 feet. Wounded, the captain still opened the door. Israel and India praised him, and so did...
Politics Gandhi’s ‘Hey Ram’ to Congress’s ‘Rich Ram’
On Monday, Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy of the Congress offered a theology of his own. Speaking at an event in New Delhi, he said,...
Politics Part II: India for sale
The institution — Ford, Rockefeller and the architecture of development
Politics Page 112: How Khudiram became a terrorist in a Bengal schoolbook
How Rowlatt’s word outlived the empire, and love of the land became “jingoism”
