Cover Story The spectre of an ideological stateRakesh BatabyalThe proponents of Hindutva seek to replace India’s secular nationalism, which evolved through the freedom movement, with their version of Hindu cult
TRIBUTE Janos Kornai (1928-2021): An economist as an iconoclastRakesh BatabyalJanos Kornai (1928-2021), the Hungarian economist, provided the first systematic and structural understanding of the flaws in the centralised command
Syncretism On the composite culture of India Rakesh Batabyal One of the most significant frames of India’s cultural aggregation has been the idea of a joint Hindu-Muslim syncretic culture. Indians learn new fo
Obituary Doyen of secular historyRAKESH BATABYALA historian who represented Indian academia as an independent voice at the highest international forums, Prof. Satish Chandra (1922–2017 )upheld the
Has COVID truly exposed the broken global order? Despite the COVID-19 pandemic being a severe and truly global crisis, developed countries continue to act in the interests of Big Pharma instead of fo
SlideshowPostcards from Khasi hillsImages that mix politics, history and discomfort to document how the Khasi people made Christianity, a “foreign faith”, their own.
