Politics Every Indian town should publish its land balance sheet
India has millions of acres of land that exist inside the boundaries of cities, towns and villages but contribute remarkably little to the economy around...
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Politics Part I: India for sale
The state — intelligence, political money and strategic dependence, 1947–1991
Politics Why the Kashmiri Pandits won’t stop getting killed in the Valley
In August 2026, a letter began circulating with the kind of detail no distant propagandist could invent. It named roughly half a dozen Kashmiri Pandits...
Politics The farce of measuring Indian democracy
There has been much debate, of varying intensity, about the degree of ‘freedom’ that exists in India. The question has resurfaced in recent times following...
Politics The arithmetic of division: how the cure preserved the disease?
The Indian state promised to abolish caste while attaching ever greater rewards to caste identity
Politics Swiping left from the centre
The rewiring of RaGa
Politics How the politics of the oppressor–oppressed came into existence
In India, a Savarna can never be a victim of caste discrimination. Not when university walls, such as those at JNU, are painted with slogans...
Politics Brahmanical patriarchy: the making of a political category
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s recent invocation of the Manusmriti in a recent program in Pune to characterize the Indian social order and to point to...
Politics What Rahul Gandhi gets wrong about patriarchy
In the humid evening air of Pune’s AISSMS College ground on 22 August 2026, thousands of young women gathered under the banner of Congress’s “Chhatron...
Politics Why Vande Mataram remains contested even after 80 years
God and Caesar, church and state, spiritual authority and temporal authority, have been a prevailing dualism in Western culture. Only in Hindu civilisation were religion...
