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 ...

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

Indian and Indonesian politics at the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies, with a PhD in Political Science and Public Policy from King’s College London. He is also a ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

The military has become a willing accomplice in the Modi government’s political project. It benefits from the hyper nationalism we witnessed since 2014.