The writer is an associate fellow with the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, and author of Righteous Republic: The Political Foundations of Modern India (2012)
June 18,2016 00:15:54 AM
Willingness to engage with ideas has to come from intellectuals, not political parties
November 19,2005 00:00:00 AM
Naxalites capture and torture, sometimes on camera, those they perceive to be enemies of the people. Mirwaiz Umar Farooq says he will take u...
November 05,2005 00:00:00 AM
On October 7 and 8 this year, World Press Photo celebrated 50 years of supporting and recognising quality photojournalism. For two days phot...
October 29,2005 00:00:00 AM
Suketu Mehta could have been in the diamond trade, like his father. Surely that would have been a loss to the not-so-lucrative, but perhaps,...
October 22,2005 00:00:00 AM
Dutch photographer Geert van Kesteren’s show, ‘‘Why Mister, Why?’’ running at the Netherlands Photo Museum in Rotte...
October 20,2005 00:00:00 AM
Who fights a so-called holy war in the midst of a natural disaster? What place does ideological warfare — presumably the impetus for Tu...
September 19,2005 00:00:00 AM
In an interview published last month in The New York Times, V.S. Naipaul has pronounced that there are no thinkers in India today. He says t...
September 10,2005 00:00:00 AM
Manhattan, SEP 2001: On Friday September 14, The New York Times reported a ‘‘sad paper trail’’ originating from the bomb...
August 04,2005 00:00:00 AM
On June 16, at Kaman Post in Baramulla District, the river Jhelum thundered through a gorge between two steep mountain walls. Slung across t...
July 31,2005 00:00:00 AM
Sanjib Baruah describes Dr Bhupen Hazarika as not only Assam’s most popular lyricist and singer, but its foremost cultural icon. Baruah...
July 09,2005 00:15:36 AM
This is the proposition: news and terrorism are two sides of the same coin. News in our world is, more and more, terrifying; acts of terror ...
