Counter Culture What explains the asphyxiating glut of biopics in Indian cinema?Prathyush Parasuraman
Presidential Election 2022 Droupadi’s moment: Can the presidential candidate push the envelope?Peter Ronald deSouza
Not all fun & gamesJAYATI GHOSHThe preparation for the Commonwealth Games in Delhi has led to large-scale displacement, but there is very little effort at relocation and rehabilitat
India and the worldIndia's declining influence as a leader of developing countries may reflect not only national and international political economy forces, but also the
Stifling dissent and debatePRAFUL BIDWAIUnder attack from NGOs for its communal orientation, the BJP seeks to browbeat them and also impose indirect forms of censorship.
Openness, deficits and lack of developmentJAYATI GHOSHA report from UNCTAD highlights the role that greater trade openness may have played in worsening growth prospects in much of the developing world.
Women in Indian politicsJAYATI GHOSHWomen are as ever underrepresented in the election fray and in party structures, but in many ways, most of them qualitative, they have never been as i
The looming shadowJAYATI GHOSHRecent trade data confirm that the government's management of the external sector has made future balance of payments problems likely.
Plebiscite on prejudice?PRAFUL BIDWAIThis is the country's dirtiest, most personalised, election campaign. By launching it, the BJP has confronted India with a choice: for or against bigo
The G-15 and the WTOJAYATI GHOSHThere has been a singular lack of any concrete achievement at the Bangalore meeting.
A setback for ethnic conciliationPRAFUL BIDWAIIndia's guarded response to the heinous killing of Neelam Tiruchelvam is suspicious and points to a pro-LTTE wave in the BJP-led coalition.
Voices for peaceThe growing peace movement in Pakistan had an impressive, broad-based mobilisation in Karachi on February 27 and 28. Nuclear disarmament activists in
Visa as communal weaponThe BJP's strategy on the issue of a visa to Salman Rushdie derives from a Machiavellian political agenda.
SlideshowCaptured in timeAs independent India turns 75, some of the defining images of those seven decades.