COVER STORY: COVID-19

Omicron surge: Understanding the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in India

Although India and the world at large are experiencing the Omicron-fuelled wave of the pandemic to varying degrees, it is still not possible to say wh

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Objection, Your Honour: Supreme Court judge S. Abdul Nazeer's recent speech raises eyebrows

Supreme Court judge S. Abdul Nazeer’s speech at a function organised by an RSS affiliate bodes ill for India’s democratic secular polity. By demanding

Interview: Noshir Dadrawala

Noshir Dadrawala: ‘This is absolutely unacceptable control’

Interview with Noshir H. Dadrawala, chief executive officer, Centre for Advancement of Philanthropy, Mumbai.

Anupama Katakam

Rangayana: Theatre of the absurd

Rangayana, the pluralistic Kannada theatre repertory and a unique secular cultural space, is in danger of being reduced to a handmaiden of the BJP and

Vikhar Ahmed Sayeed

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Rewriting of history

BJP attempt to rewrite textbooks a disservice to history

A parliamentary panel report on ‘reforms’ in school history textbooks attacks established scholarship and suggests controversial inclusions, in line w

COVER STORY: PM CARES fund

PM-CARES ‘not subject to scrutiny’

IN March 2020, soon after the coronavirus disease began to spread in India, the Government of India created the Prime Minister’s Citizen Assistance an

Anupama Katakam

Karnataka 'anti-conversion Bill'

Karnataka Legislative Assembly passes anti-conversion Bill amid criticism

Karnataka’s Lower House passes the Protection of Right to Freedom of Religion Bill, but critics say the BJP government is using conversion as a ruse t

VIKHAR AHMED SAYEED

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Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik.

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Fortunately, an official announcement from Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on December 30 brought cheer to the inmates of 19 homes being run by the Miss

Sunny Jacob: ‘Prejudice or vendetta’

Interview with Sunny Jacob, member of the International Jesuit Education Commission.

A Missionaries of Charity nun distributing food to the needy in Kolkata on December 28, 2021.

Weaponising FCRA: Controversy surrounds govt refusal to renew licence of Missionaries of Charity

The controversy over the FCRA funds licence for the Missionaries of Charity is widely seen as part of the government’s attempt to muzzle NGOs working

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s convoy, stuck on a flyover near Hussainiwala in Ferozepur district on January 5.

The Sangh Parivar’s sympathy mantra

The Sangh Parivar’s famililar tactic of communal polarisation does not seem to be yielding the expected dividends in the run-up to the 2022 Assembly e

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Yati Narsinghanand Saraswati. He warned that India would soon have a “Muslim Prime Minister”.

Hate conclaves targeting minorities

Hate speeches by men seen until recently as “fringe elements” cause outrage but do not draw any firm reaction from either the government or the mainst