PM Modi’s breaking of his silence on Bisara draws attention to what he could have said, what he didn’t.

The city where Ghulam Ali cannot sing gave Bade Ghulam Ali Khan a home.

Start-up entrepreneurship needs several forms of encouragement, beginning with an insolvency law.

Is ‘Sri Venkatesa Suprabhatam’ the right invocation for Lord Padmanabha of Thiruvananthapuram?

Angus Deaton has helped us understand poverty. His work has lessons for India’s policymakers.

A look at the front page of The Indian Express, published on October 14, Forty Years Ago.

Lumpenism of the Sena, pusillanimity of mainstream parties, ensure that Mumbai is losing sight of itself.

Upper-caste alliances are not called casteist. Subaltern caste coalitions are.

Shiv Sena’s real threat is this: It can shift markers of language and public norms.

In oppressive times, writers find ways to make their voices heard.

Shiv Sena’s attack on Sudheendra Kulkarni is part of a pattern of intolerance that is spreading on the BJP government’s watch.

Nawaz is not as powerful as Raheel. As the Pakistan army exerts real power, democracy is more and more a facade.

Manorama brought a quiet dignity to the role of the comedian in Tamil cinema.

New Delhi needs to take him at his word — and trust the people of Nepal.

Ten years on, it is a weapon for the citizen facing arbitrary power. It needs to be protected, taken further.

Investments in the real economy are needed to ensure financial inclusion is for real.

A look at the front page of The Indian Express, published on October 12, Forty Years Ago.

The PM is no district magistrate and cannot be expected to personally look after a family in Dadri. But he ought to do what leaders must.

The state will get a new government, and the country an intimation of future politics.

The president went where the PM feared to go

Narendra Modi finally spoke, but it was not a strong message and it came too late.

Much of the BJP's core Hindutva thinking is Brahminical.

The Noida jinx myth goes back nearly two decades, starting with Chief Minister Vir Bahadur Singh in 1988.

The ascent to power of the BJP — with an absolute majority in the Lok Sabha — brought with it a sense of foreboding.