Pune’s 11-day sit-in ended with the MPSC chairman on leave. With a campus elections panel and a BMC fellowship, the BJP appears to be trying a new approach to young protesters.
Released in the centenary year of Fidel Castro’s birth, Cuba After Castro follows a president born after 1959 and a generation that inherited the Revolution.
When voters begin to feel electoral outcomes are predetermined, participation risks losing its meaning. It would be a cardinal mistake to consider the current moment of electoral breakdown as anything less than the active sabotage of the republic.
Once viewed as a symbol of dynastic politics, Rahul Gandhi has travelled a long and arduous road to become an opposition leader of considerable heft against a powerful government, a feat few in his own party can boast of.
Delhi Police’s unpunished brutality has its roots in a colonial, casteist, and masculinist institutional culture that Indian cinema’s heroic cop has taught the public to applaud, making genuine reform as much a cultural critique as a legal one.
At Muse Music’s Jaipur retreat, Hindustani masters stayed steadfast to their genre while Carnatic experimenters and practitioners of Sufi pop embraced the non-conformist and entertained the nouveau patron.
Protests against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar follow the precedent of the July agitation that ousted Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan. His removal would be read as admitting the opposition’s charge, and protesters vow to continue.
First-year M.Sc student Najeeb Ahmed went missing from JNU on October 15, 2016. A decade on, an excerpt from Nilanjana Bhowmick’s Why The World Needs Angry Women follows his mother Fatima Nafees’s fight for answers.
Dorothy places a trans woman’s desire, identity, and capacity for love at the centre of a romance, challenging decades of stereotypical representation of transgender persons in Tamil cinema.
The UDF government’s plan to open up plantation land for tourism and industry carries the name of a demand from Adivasi and Dalit movements but leaves out the land they were promised.
Spot oil prices have decoupled from futures, shipping costs are soaring, and bond markets are punishing Paris. The Eurozone’s architectural flaws are at odds with the geopolitical shocks, and India’s opaque fiscal accounts hide similar exposure.
The Congress march against SIR has laid bare the uneasy relationship between the opposition’s old guard and a younger generation of activists seeking a political role of their own.
Modi’s politics is built on fear and state violence, but the crackdown on protesters in Delhi has exposed the constraints of that strategy. Their defiance, alongside Rahul Gandhi’s mobilisation of the opposition, shows even kings can run out of road.
Neera Chandhoke reads Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Sahir Ludhianvi and Bimal Roy as political thinkers, finding in their poetry and cinema a view of freedom as a horizon that we must continuously fight to reimagine.
Leaking roofs, overcrowded classrooms and a university admissions system that leaves thousands in limbo have driven French students to protest. The state’s answer has been a campaign of police violence.
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