Opinion
The International Infrastructure of Impunity: From Trump to Modi
S.VikramPolitical commentator The American midterm elections may have produced something more consequential....
The Politics of Absolute Brinkmanship: Sharjeel Imam, 2014 and the Unravelling of Indian Liberalism
The defining political question in India today may not be whether liberalism....
The Second Bullet, and the Courage to Stand Before Power
On Rahul Gandhi, the inheritance of Gandhi, and the moral perseverance required....
When Mahima Yields to Dharma: Institutional Form, Substantive Justice, and the Clarion Call
In the classical imagination of the Rāmcharitmānas, two couplets stand as enduring....
The Seed and the Tree: The Election Commission, the Consent of the Loser, and the Making of India’s Next Republic
I. Three days in September In three days this September, the Indian....
A Disaster Waiting to Happen: Satya Niketan and the Architecture of Abandonment
On the afternoon of September 6, 2026, a five-storey building near Delhi....
The Republic’s Second Ledger: Shell Parties, Selective Enforcement, and the Money Nobody Will Explain
A chronology, and the questions it demands There is a story sitting....
Beyond the Headline: What India’s 7.8% Really Tells Us
Every quarter, India’s GDP print arrives with the same ritual: a headline....
The Discrepancy Machine: How the Election Commission Manufactured Doubt, and the Supreme Court Let It Stand
On 13 April 2026, with West Bengal five days from its first....
The Debt No One Signed For
The latest wave of anti-reservation sentiment has emerged from an unlikely place:....
