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Why Indian liberals love Zohran Mamdani but ignore Chandrashekhar Azad

October 23, 2025 4:57 pm

The Indian liberal would love to live in New York; would they want to visit Nagina? Between the global and the local, the liberal always chooses the global. And then they are perplexed that “India that is Bharat” does not match their ideals

Ashoka University and the hypocrisy of 'liberal' branding

August 17, 2023 2:05 pm

Its mostly Caucasian philosophy department would raise no eyebrows if India's most elite private university actually stood up for the moral values it professes. Since it doesn't, better to stick to advertising 'placements'

Walter Mondale, ex-vice president and champion of liberal politics, dies at 93

April 20, 2021 1:20 pm

A son of a minister of modest means, Fritz Mondale, as he was widely known, led a rich public life that began in Minnesota under the tutelage of his state’s progressive pathfinder, Hubert H. Humphrey.

No revival of that old order: The idea of India in which there are privileges and not rights is dead

May 26, 2019 8:07 am

The past five years have been difficult for India’s ruling elite. High officials, famous writers, editors of English newspapers, celebrated TV anchors, heirs of political dynasties, leftists and liberals have found their importance diminish by the day.

Across The Aisle: Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty

March 15, 2015 12:00 am

The rising tide of illiberalism and intolerance is frightening.

It's dark in the middle

November 12, 2013 10:31 pm

A new book offers insights on identity construction in the subcontinent’s middle classes

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