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The newly elected President of Sri Lanka, Anura Kumara Dissanayake. Colombo, September 25, 2024.

Can Anura Kumara Dissanayake deliver on his promise of systemic change in Sri Lanka?

Mahendran Thiruvarangan

Indira Gandhi in Delhi on April 20, 1982. Documentary film Indi(r)a’s Emergency covers events from the 1942 Quit India Movement through to the Emergency period.

Counter Culture

Can a film be progressive if it is too subtle?

Circumventing censorship with minor tricks doesn’t make a film progressive; it merely turns the capacity to evoke pity into an artistic virtue.

Prathyush Parasuraman

Prathyush Parasuraman

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G.N. Saibaba’s death is an injustice

Economic Perspectives

European Union just made it more expensive to buy electric cars from China

C.P. Chandrasekhar

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Editor's Pick

Han Kang giving a speech in Gwangju, South Korea, in 2023.

Why has literature Nobel winner Han Kang turned down celebratory events?

Han’s refusal stems from her conviction that writers must bear witness to global suffering, prioritising collective anguish over personal achievement.

Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee

NOTES FROM KASHMIR

Kashmir’s guarded optimism

Omar Abdullah wins election, but can he fix jobs and inflation with less power?

Samsung strike: Workers arrested as battle for union recognition continues

Tamil Nadu government swiftly dismantled protest site, arrested workers after they rejected a pact reached between Samsung and a “workmen committee”.

Siddarth Muralidharan

RBI governor Shaktikanta Das

SUM AND SUBSTANCE

Horses, elephants, unicorns: Who does the RBI’s rosy outlook really describe?

The central bank claims victory over rising prices, but many Indians still struggle with costlier food and widening wealth gaps.

Mitali Mukherjee

Audio Stories

James Baldwin: The guiding star

Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee (1944-2024): Poet-politician who dreamed of an industrial renaissance for West Bengal

Wayanad landslides: When nature rewrote the map

Fiscal Federalism

How Modi’s ‘double engine’ is derailing fiscal federalism

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