The Khilafat movement of 1919 offers a century-old lesson in how religious symbols can mobilise democratic mass politics, provided they serve an inclusive political project rather than become ends in themselves.
The political environment has changed and it is the youth who have changed it, not the established political parties. Only those who respond to these rumblings in society will prevail.
From displaced Dalit farmers in Andhra Pradesh to water-stressed communities elsewhere, India’s data centre boom is advancing with weak safeguards and little public scrutiny. It’s time to set rules before more land and resources are committed.
From India’s electoral-roll revision to barriers to citizenship in Europe and West Asia, states are leaving more people without secure rights or a place to belong.
Gandhi dismissed Kamaraj’s Congress as a clique and trusted Rajaji instead, but by the measure of Gandhi’s own talisman, it was Kamaraj who served the poorest best.
Laura Shepherd-Robinson’s The Art of a Lie follows a widow, a suspicious death, and the secrets of a Westminster confectioner’s shop. It may even tempt you to cancel your streaming subscription.
After a drug racket was busted in Karnataka, the challenge is to close the price gaps that make counterfeiting profitable and strengthen supply-chain checks so fake medicines are harder to sell and more likely to be detected before reaching patients.
The recent Tamil Nadu Dalit Women’s Conference held in Chennai highlighted the everyday violence imposed on Dalit women and urged economic empowerment as the biggest leveller.
The View From Here and Hyphen represent an irrepressible impulse in India’s literary cultures to give voice to the human imagination, and reject the silence imposed by authoritarian states.
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