Or so it seemed, at a session at the Jaipur Lit Fest

India’s expanding stakes in the US demand a less instrumental, more strategic view of a changing American politics

The global economy is in trouble but India is attracting positive comment. Finance minister must make the most of the moment

Haryana panchayat poll outcome does not reflect the state’s social composition

Building on the Jan Dhan framework, India should move from price to income support

Even as Indian higher education faces its toughest challenge — the inclusion of hitherto excluded groups — the public university is becoming insecure, narrow-minded and conservative

The Indian government was keen to present Hollande a portrait of himself by an Indian artist who specialises in capturing the likeness of his subjects from a photograph.

The release of the secret files concerning Subhas Chandra Bose has again brought the debate about his death back in focus.

There’s a galloping sense of ‘buyer’s remorse’, as the Old Continent wakes up to the truth that it has taken on a mass of people who cannot be assimilated.

Modi has three years to go before the next election and this is more than enough time to build a political team capable of putting Delhi’s mighty mandarins in their place.

China has been the main driver of world growth for a decade. Through the 1997 Asian currency crisis and through the 2008 international financial crisis, China continued to grow at an unprecedented rate.

The Council of Islamic Ideology symbolises a contagion of pious madness

Indian policymakers obsessively focus on crises in the West, and underestimate the problems emanating from emerging economies

India cannot continue to fight a 21st century battle with 19th century institutions

Saudi Arabia and Iran are locked in a contest to bankrupt each other

Let us, instead, learn from each instance — as also from our partners abroad — when terror strikes and institutionalise our responses more efficiently

New political generation wants democratic socialism, which offers a right to economic security

Count on Doordarshan anchors’ poetry and saccharine sweet patriotism.

The critical edition will add context and help readers understand ‘Mein Kampf’ as a programmatic diatribe against civilisation.

The Dalit scholar’s death exposed the inability of the casteist Hindu to be modern, as Ambedkar had suspected.

The cover story in the Organiser, “Trouncing the red terror”, highlights the need to tackle the “most serious internal security challenge” in the country. It notes that “every now and then” reports about the “waning Naxal might” emerge, but we also “find them gaining ground in some other part of the country with a different […]

If we accept the reasoning of the apex court in the AMU case, it means that a religious minority is debarred from establishing a university inasmuch as a university can only be established by a legislature

What we do with Parliament building to cope with the future will powerfully signify who we are, how we view our past, where we see ourselves going

Data shows that jihadi terrorism has actually declined