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Citizens, Not Subjects: Reclaiming it Amid Orchestrated Polarisation

India, Nov. 24 -- India, with its vibrant diversity, is facing a polarising. Political lines are sharper, religious rhetoric rings louder, and divisions driven by rising religious fundamentalism seem ... Read More


This Too Shall Pass Away

India, Nov. 24 -- Once upon a time, a goldsmith approached his King and asked if he would like any special sort of jewellery made for him or for his Queen. The King gave him a withering look, for he h... Read More


Intellectuals as Terrorists!

India, Nov. 24 -- I blinked twice when I read what the Delhi police told the Supreme Court. They said that sometimes intellectuals are more dangerous than a terrorist. Was this the voice of a non-inte... Read More


Bihar 2025: A Victory Built on Loopholes, Fear and Freebies

India, Nov. 24 -- Bihar has delivered a result that was less an election and more a demonstration of how power scripts the rules. The NDA has won, yes. But the real story lies in how the field was til... Read More


Whither India?

India, Nov. 24 -- As a teacher, I was trained to believe that the younger generation was so fortunate to have born in independent India that guarantees them the fundamental rights to explore their ful... Read More


Goenka Lecture You Too, Tharoor!?

India, Nov. 24 -- It came as a surprise-though perhaps it should not have-that Prime Minister Narendra Modi was invited to deliver the sixth Ramnath Goenka Lecture, as if the people of India had been ... Read More


The Mirror India Refuses to Face

India, Nov. 17 -- The World Day of the Poor arrives each year as an indictment. It calls us to look, without pretence, at a truth we dodge daily: the poor are not the margins of society. They are its ... Read More


The Poor are with Us!

India, Nov. 17 -- The Catholic Church will observe the 'World Day of the Poor' on November 16, 2025. The day has a special significance this year, since it comes in the wake of Pope Leo XIV's first ma... Read More


"There is no God in that Temple"

India, Nov. 17 -- When a sadhu refuses to acknowledge a temple built on tears, Rabindranath Tagore's Deeno Daan becomes a moral mirror for our times. From Pope Leo XIV's reminder-"If you lack charity,... Read More


When Doctors had a Blast No Escaping the Questions

India, Nov. 17 -- Man is, perhaps, the only animal that can imagine. This is our greatest gift and, at times, our most profound curse. There are no limitations to the worlds we can conjure within the ... Read More