Vignesh Rajahmani argues that “the formation, spread and use of reading rooms in the Tamil region in the 1950s and 1960s was ...

This excerpt is part of the book’s reckoning with slavery in the French colonies, which the author argues is largely ignored ...

The world has developed a seemingly insatiable appetite for the critical minerals that are essential to the ongoing energy ...

contentShrayana Bhattacharya is an economist with a specialisation in public administration, and a former research consultant with the Accountability Initiative at the Centre for Policy Research.

Mistry’s oeuvre offers us literary works stripped of performance. His fiction does not drive us towards moments of epiphany ...

Republic TV aired 8 anti-BJP debates for every 100 anti-opposition debates. It regularly promoted hashtags that lionised Modi, saying he “crushed” Pakistan, that he “strikes” corruption and “punishes” ...

For the past month, a Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls has been underway in Bihar. This exercise by ...

ORF, funded by Reliance, is now an overt agent in Indian diplomacy. S Jaishankar and his son Dhruva stand in this entanglement, with possible conflicts of interest.

The three farm laws have once again brought together the same set of glib, neoliberal and sectarian voices that brought Narendra Modi to power.

Narayana A is an associate professor with the school of policy and governance, Azim Premji University, Bengaluru. He writes on issues of politics and governance in both Kannada and English.

In the late 1930s and 1940s, many RSS members were enamoured with European fascists. During that period, Golwalkar sought to turn the RSS into a Nazi-style militia, with the goal of eventually ...

VP Singh’s government failed, and was dissolved within a year. The Observer also failed, but more gradually. It never earned great readership or public clout, and was formally shut down after ten ...