A terrifying fallout
Modi’s response to the Pulwama attack will deepen the alienation of the Kashmiris.
Latha Jishnu
Between farce and fear
In the assault on democracy across South Asia, India is no laggard.
Temple in the age of colliders
As China shows its technological prowess, the Modi regime is pushing India into a backward agenda.
India joins the club
In South Asia, regimes are destroying democratic institutions to push illiberal ideologies.
Crushing the campus
The systematic attack on academia reflects the anti-intellectualism of the saffron right wing.
Cringing and fuddled at 71
The toxic politics and coarse discourse of the Modi regime has held up a mirror to Indians.
A legacy of rage and loss
Power at any cost has been the driving force of the Modi regime, leaving the nation volatile and fearful.
Faint notes of a secular spring
The BJP was trounced in a key parliamentary stronghold — a rejection of everyday communalism.
Subversion of democracy
The Modi regime’s intolerance of political opposition and its cavalier attitude is killing Indian democracy.
India through the glass darkly
The falsification of history is not the only danger the young and the old are going through.
Bringing up Modi, diplomatically
India is beginning to reset a brash foreign policy that has damaged ties with China and others.
Readying a saffron generation
While the Modi regime flounders, the RSS is succeeding in its agenda of creating a Hindu India.
Losing friends and making foes
Without a strategic framework foreign policy has floundered because of Modi’s personalised diplomacy.
Looking back in anger, forever
Violent conflicts fanned by the BJP’s regressive agenda put development on the back-burner.
Bharatmata’s unequal children
Muslims are on notice that their life, livelihood and religious freedom are not secure.
Embedding the army in politics
The controversies over India’s military are mounting as it begins to encroach on civilian space.
Pummelling India’s democracy
BJP governments, at the centre and in states, have been chipping away at the democratic laws and values of the Republic.
Sleepless in Modi’s economy
As growth rates dip and industries fold up, unemployment remains a terrifying prospect for young India.
The hollowing out of India
The Modi government is chipping away at the institutions and traditions that define the republic.
Learning Chinese chequers
The Doklam stand-off has reset the South Asian strategic board with India’s smaller neighbours moving closer to Beijing.