India, This Side

Girl power revolution: Anupama Hireholi from Saundatti creates history

Half a century after Vijay Tendulkar’s controversial play about the jogtin practice, the town will be known for something besides the Yellamma temple.

Economic Perspectives

Go First filing for bankruptcy raises questions about ‘open skies’ policy

The government has constantly tweaked policy to favour private entrants in the airlines sector.

C.P. Chandrasekhar

Counter Culture

‘The Kerala Story’ is greedy in its impulse to demonise Muslims

In it, expressions of love for India and Hinduism are intertwined with hostility towards Islam.

Prathyush Parasuraman

Pakistan: Chaos and the way out

There is a crisis of authority within the judiciary, parliament, and the armed forces.

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India, This Side

Despite the NCERT’s shocking move, Gandhi lives on

The decision to drop the Gandhi assassination from the NCERT’s history textbook just cannot extinguish the Mahatma’s memory.

Counter Culture

The elusive idea of grace

Is grace that feeling of being swept into and receding from something, as in an Odissi recital?

Prathyush Parasuraman

Economic Perspectives

No concrete outcomes at IMF and World Bank Spring Meetings

The lack of progress is attributed to the unwillingness of the institutions to reform themselves.

C.P. Chandrasekhar

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Lonely crusaders: A common Indian phenomenon

Such individuals, who dedicate their entire lives to unusual projects, deserve our attention and appreciation.

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman interacting with World Bank President David Malpass at the annual Spring Meeting of the IMF and the World Bank, in Washington on April 12.

World Bank-IMF plans to resolve global economic crises a road map to limbo

This seems to show a shift in the organisations’ focus away from the very poor towards increased participation of the private sector.

C.P. Chandrasekhar

A view of Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre at Jio World Centre, in Mumbai.

Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre: Culture as spectacle

Culture thrives on patronage, and to participate in patronised culture is to forever remember how fraught the very desire for culture is.

Prathyush Parasuraman

A compilation of Premchand’s anti-communal short stories selected and edited by the poet-writer Sanjay Kundan, titled Kuchh aur Alagoo Kuchh aur Jumman: Premchand ki Sampradayikta Virodhi Kahaniyan.

Premchand: Committed to anti-communalism

A new volume showcases Premchand’s stories that talk of Hindu-Muslim unity.

A Silicon Valley Bank branch in Tempe, Arizona, as seen on March 14, 2023 . The bank’s collapse was a “textbook case of mismanagement”, said a top Federal Reserve official.

Does collapse of key banks in US, Europe portend a return to 2008?

The early responses to banking fragility challenge the prevailing central bank notions of how to fight inflation.

C.P. Chandrasekhar

Salman Rushdie at a press conference at Aviles, in northern Spain, in October 2015.

Manufacturing magic: On Salman Rushdie and ‘Victory City’

There is a constant need to explain the rules of fantasy in Salman Rushdie’s new novel.

Prathyush Parasuraman

Temsula Ao: Voice of the orange tree

The poet, writer, and ethnographer brought the Naga sensibility to the attention of the nation.

Congress party activists during a protest against the disqualification of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi from the Lok Sabha, in Kolkata on March 25.

Criminal defamation: A noxious colonial law and its subversive effects

The Macaulay-authored law must be consigned to the dustbin of history.

Language is the most crucial aspect of cultural capital. Inscriptions in Tamil carved on the stone walls of the Brihadeeswara temple in Thanjavur.

The rising threat to Indian languages

The missing Census 2021, the NEP, and the rapid growth in AI have endangered them.

A scene from Everything Everywhere All At Once. Michelle Yeoh became the first Asian woman ever to win the Best Actress Oscar in the 95 years of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Oscars 2023: What’s fair got to do with it?

We see the Oscars wins as ours, a validation of our tastes, but that is it. Fair play has no role.

Prathyush Parasuraman

The writer Vinod Kumar Shukla.

Vinod Kumar Shukla: A poet in a novelist’s shirt

The PEN/Nabakov award for Shukla is an acknowledgement of a unique and extraordinary talent.

At an event to mark the 99th birth anniversary of Annabhau Sathe at Pattankodoli village, near Kolhapur, Maharashtra. .

Why Indian democracy needs more ‘unlettered’ literary figures

Those courageous voices would bring the republic back to the norms envisioned in the Constitution.