They are young, urban and online. They organise efficiently and move swiftly to muzzle dissent.

Fighters for liberal rights cannot rely on any Government. Remember the Emergency. As Taslima Nasreen and Salman Rushdie know, the seculars are just as bad when their vote banks are at stake.

The Desi Modi stands in depressing contrast to Modi Abroad

The Vigilance Bureau building is reportedly to be converted into the CM’s ‘advisory council office’ if Nitish returns as CM.

Writers who would have been adults during the Emergency said that the atmosphere of ‘intolerance’ today was worse than it was then. Really? How many of them have been jailed for saying this?

The writers are protesting against events that have not only political overtones but have profound social consequences. Are all Indians obliged to conform to one notion of religion or food or language or dress?

Pranab Mukherjee’s Israel visit reconfirmed Delhi’s deliberate policy ambivalence

High quality and transparent data needed for informed debates.

While the acceptance of the award brings glory to writers, it’s in the returning of it that our collective battles are fought.

Modi knows that the liberati media is gunning for him. Then why give them a beefy opportunity?

The judiciary came to the conclusion that the NJAC, as currently constituted, would be a threat to judicial independence. It is hard to disagree.

The barbarity of Dadri, in which Mohammad Akhlaq was lynched on suspicion that his family had “consumed beef”, continues to dominate the press.

The value of Angus Deaton’s work lies in honing the techniques that go behind the construction of data series used for policy analysis.

The new ism in the city is nationalism.

The temples of justice are also home to moments of laughter.

Closing of the Muslim mind is a global development. Are we seeing a closing of the Indian mind, too?

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.

With Sudheendra Kulkarni’s blackened face, TV news showed us our timewarp.

Mission Indradhanush is a successful intervention in scaling up immunisation for full coverage.

From the beginning, the ICHR has been beholden to the political and historical beliefs of whoever was in power. This aspect of its leadership has not changed.

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.

Men need to be awakened and empowered to change the situation and the “power-based understanding of [the] man-woman relationship has to be discarded”.

Congratulations to the IMD which sounded out the country on below-normal rainfall at 93 per cent of the LPA and then downgraded it to 88 per cent.