From colonial history to everyday survival, Amitava Kumar’s The Social Life of Indian Trains shows how railways shape India’s ...

Mahasweta Devi turned writing into a weapon against state violence, caste power, and bourgeois complacency—refusing art that ...

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation election has become a high-stakes contest over political legacy, linguistic identity, ...

Fear now governs classrooms, newsrooms, and public life in India as teachers, journalists, and minorities self-censor under ...

Once wrongfully jailed for nine years, Abdul Wahid Shaikh critiques the Supreme Court’s denial of bail to Umar Khalid and ...

Lal Bahadur Shastri snubbed the White House by going instead to Canada, opening undreamt of opportunities for a huge wave of ...

Once hailed as India’s cleanest city, Indore now faces a deadly waterborne epidemic. Contaminated drinking water, ignored ...

With a major party barred, new alliances forming, and Islamist groups sensing space, Bangladesh’s February election raises ...

Democracy is sustained less by formal institutions than by everyday habits of thought. Across India, the US, and Europe, ...

The suspension of Kuldeep Sengar’s rape conviction exposes how political power shapes bail decisions—and endangers survivors ...

Aditya Sinha is the author of two crime novels, The CEO Who Lost His Head (2017), and Death in the Deccan ( 2023).

Europe’s leaders wrapped a US military coup in legal evasions and hollow rhetoric. Their silence on Venezuela exposes the ...