Dimensional shift: The US-India relationship is changing again
In the face of Trump's capriciousness, India will not panic, but it might pivot. While it will uphold its ties with the US, it may take a more...
Islam on trial in India
4 Feb 2025 6:30 AM ISTThe Court emphasized that the move benefits all parties, by avoiding multiple proceedings and reducing the risk of conflicting judgments.
The Indians Dividing MAGA
4 Jan 2025 6:40 AM ISTPerhaps it should not be surprising that India should feature so prominently in the “civil war” that has emerged within US President-elect Donald...
Why must we vote so often?
17 Oct 2024 6:00 AM ISTPrime Minister Narendra Modi wants his country to move to a fixed election schedule, with the Lok Sabha (lower house of parliament), state assemblies,...
Systemic Rot: A saga of crime, punishment in Uttar Pradesh
4 May 2023 6:52 AM ISTEvery time a high-profile criminal case in India collapses, there is renewed clamour for vigilante justice of the kind seen last month with the public...
Stifling dissent: India’s democracy in detention
13 April 2023 11:00 AM ISTThe sentencing of Rahul Gandhi, the strongman of the opposition INC, to two years in prison over a 2019 quip may turn out to be a political own-goal...
L’affaire Rahul Gandhi: Hypocrisy on stilts
16 March 2023 11:00 AM ISTHe concluded by declaring that the BJP “would like to emphatically state with great agony that Rahul Gandhi, in his speeches, has sought to shame...
India’s thin-skinned leaders
24 Feb 2023 3:00 PM ISTFrom the BBC to an Israeli filmmaker to the World Health Organization, foreign critics of anything Indian are now likely to be met with an all-out...