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At a pride parade in Chennai on June 24, 2018.

Counter Culture

Respectability and irreverence: the two sides of attention

Both want to achieve the same thing—the dignity of attention, either by bending to the system, or bending the system.

Prathyush Parasuraman

Untreated sewage is discharged from Thames Water Sewage Treatment Works near Chalgrove, UK.

Economic Perspectives

Thames Water and the collapse of neoliberal privatisation

In the 1980s, the company’s privatisation signified a dramatic turn in economic policy due to neoliberalism.

C.P. Chandrasekhar

The bean that carries a whiff of rain

A common kitchen ingredient, the black-eyed bean has a glorious lineage and, when boiled, a shockingly intense umami flavour

From the sidelines

Caught in a saffron storm

The BJP might win the three Muslim-dominant seats in Uttar Pradesh, but attributing it solely to Hindutva mobilisation would be a mistake.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s calls for globalising the Indian rupee have led to confusion and market turmoil, raising concerns about regulatory risks.

Sum and Substance

A global rupee may sound nice, but look before you leap

Prime Minister Modi’s global ambitions for the rupee hit a snag as RBI’s revised currency trading rules created a totally avoidable market panic.

Mitali Mukherjee

Electoral Bonds

Editor’s Note: Electoral bonds, and our tumbledown democracy

The BJP exudes an almost contemptuous confidence that no revelations can derail its ultimate victory. Where does this confidence come from?

Counter Culture

History and the ways of remembering

If we want to frame history as something from which we must yank moral lessons, let these lessons include more ideas and identities.

Prathyush Parasuraman

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Police recover about Rs 22 lakh from a car during a checking drive in Latehar, Jharkhand on March 29.

2024 general election is a masterclass in crony capitalism and authoritarianism

The nexus of Big Money and state power has created an unequal playing field, usurping democratic processes to sway election and silence dissent.

Narendra Modi addresses a meeting in Chennai on March 4, 2024. The PM’s speech, wherein he accused Rahul Gandhi of insulting Hinduism, has resulted in complaints that the former violated the Model Code of Conduct.

Are religious appeals to voters an electoral offence?

Did Prime Minister Modi’s speech in Tamil Nadu, where he accused Rahul Gandhi of insulting Hinduism, violate the Representation of the People Act?

A pro-Palestinian activist wearing a mask depicting Britain Prime Minister Rishi Sunak carries a baby doll to mark the death of thousands of children in Gaza, along with supporters on a march through London on March 9.

In Britain, the Establishment confronts the Movement

The chasm between Britain’s political class and majority of voters on the Palestine issue raises the prospect of a full-blown crisis of legitimacy.

Timothee Chalamet in a scene from Dune: Part Two.

Dune 2: Landscape as protagonist

Can land be that anchoring, propulsive presence through which the art makes itself known?

Prathyush Parasuraman

Delegates at the 13th WTO ministerial conference in Abu Dhabi on February 26.

Is India truly the voice of the Global South at WTO?

While the government sees itself as such, its run-ins at the WTO ministerial conference, over subsidies, with fellow member states belie that claim.

C.P. Chandrasekhar

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