But Ikkis engages with a very different part of the charged legacy: personal courage amid the futility of war, and a quest ...

This excerpt focusses on the Poona Pact, 1932, and the stance taken by Periyar and the Self-Respect Movement towards “what BR ...

Conflict / Essay The day they killed Burhan: Two years on, a Kashmiri remembers the death of the militant leader Adil Langoo Politics / Commentary The BJP is not concerned with Kashmir, it is only ...

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These texts come from very different places and vantage points, but all use food to write of deprivation, while refusing to ...

Kamal Desai’s novel, a landmark of Indian feminist fiction that was first published in Marathi in 1975, is out in a ...

WHAT IF the trouble with Nehru’s India was that, contrary to received wisdom, it was too right-wing? That is the question Gunnar Myrdal asked in his 1968 magnum opus, Asian Drama. Weighing in at a ...

Ever the news itself, Republic TV recently hit the headlines after Arnab Goswami, its owner and star anchor, was arrested by the Maharashtra Police, in early November. Goswami was arrested in ...

ON A CLOUDLESS DAY in March 2012, an Audi sped along the highway connecting Milan and Lugano. Its two occupants, the 68-year-old Italian-American businessman Guido Ralph Haschke and his friend and ...

PRIME MINISTER NARENDRA MODI and the larger Hindu-nationalist ecosystem often distinguish between two categories of journalists. The first is that of “news traders”—media persons who are sponsored by ...

THESE LINES, translated from Malayalam, are part of what is known as the Mappila Ramayana. As countless other places and communities have done, the Mappilas—Muslims who live in the Malabar region of ...