COVER STORY: Bulldozing the idea of India RSS and Gandhi: Sangh Parivar's belated attempts to appropriate national heroes in quest for legitimacyA.G. NOORANIThe Hindu right wing has been trying to appropriate the legacy of Gandhi, Ambedkar and Subhas Chandra Bose in a bid to acquire legitimacy. All of them
ESSAY Farce of prosecution leaves innocent Muslims as victimsA.G. NOORANIInnocent people suffer because public prosecutors in India are not free of government control, and the victims are very often Muslims.
ESSAY Partition Horrors Remembrance Day: A Prime Minister determined to flout the nation’s consensus A.G. NooraniThe subtext of the declaration of August 14, Pakistan’s Independence Day, as “Partition Horrors Remembrance Day” is to blame Muslims and the Muslim Le
COVER STORY ‘Sedition’ in freedom struggleA.G. NOORANIThe arguments by British members of the Viceroy’s Council, which passed the Vernacular Press Act in 1878 to suppress “seditious” writing in Indian lan
ESSAY Judicial disgrace: Fawning judgesA.G. NooraniJustice Arun Mishra’s fulsome praise of Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a public function does not augur well for the independence of the judiciary.
Hindutva stamp in Modi’s foreign policyA.G. NooraniPrime Minister Narendra Modi’s foreign policy is shaped by his Hindu nationalist ideology and the RSS’ expansionist utopia and driven by his self-aggr
Essay Governor: A colonial relicA.G. Noorani Successive governments at the Centre abused their power to plant their men in State capitals as Governors, wrecking the parliamentary system in the St
ESSAY Modi as Tuqhlaq A.G. NOORANIWhat “benefits” does the Central Vista Project bring to India’s people? What is to be gained by massive statues built on land or sea?
ESSAY Shahi Idgah mosque and Gyanwapi mosque: next targets of RSSA.G. NOORANIThe recent petitions seeking the conversion of the Shahi Idgah mosque at Mathura and the Gyanwapi mosque at Varanasi are in line with the revanchist a
ESSAY Passport and libertyA.G. NOORANIThe denial of the right to a passport and travel outside the country amounts to a denial of the fundamental rights of the citizen enshrined in the Con
Essay Akhand Bharat: The RSS' imperial pretensions A.G. NooraniIndia expects its smaller neighbours to call it uncle and the Great Powers to call it brother.
Essay Citizens’ inquiriesA.G. NOORANIThe entire history of India’s freedom movement is studded with inquiries by citizens’ bodies. The exercise is voluntary and the noise it arouses is a
Why Netflix reality show ‘Dubai Bling’ is a voyeuristic ode to a post-global city It fetishises a culture of smoke and mirrors.
