From the US to India, why do people collude with narcissistic leaders?

Putting the collaborators of Donald Trump’s toxic regime under the microscope.

Peter Ronald deSouza

· 4 hours ago

With Allahabad HC ruling on special marriages, individuals rights trump community interest – rightly

The court stated that individual autonomy in making decisions about the intimate aspects of one’s life, such as marriage, is constitutionally sacrosanct.

Akshat Agarwal

· 5 hours ago

Pakistan should be grateful to its persecuted Hazara minority for setting models of tolerance

Eleven miners from the community were recently killed by the Islamic State in Balochistan.

IA Rehman

· Jan 17, 2021 · 01:30 pm

Ramachandra Guha: In praise of the NMML archivists who helped a thousand researchers bloom

The person who best embodied the institution’s spirit and character was a scholar named Dr Hari Dev Sharma.

Ramachandra Guha

· Jan 17, 2021 · 06:30 am

The Trump Twitter ban, the hypocrisy of Big Tech – and what it means for India

It is an easy and safe response, given that the US president has less than 10 days left before he has to formally cede power.

Rohit Chopra

· Jan 15, 2021 · 06:30 am

Ambedkar felt nobody could be as disdainful of the legislature as the British. Modi proved him wrong

By cancelling the winter session of the Parliament, the Modi government has yet again undercut the legislature and the deliberative process of law-making.

SN Sahu

· Jan 14, 2021 · 06:30 am

With its farm laws order, India’s Supreme Court dangerously undermines parliamentary democracy

To stay the implementation of a law without even a single hearing on its merits and demerits sets a dangerous precedent.

Sruthisagar Yamunan

· Jan 13, 2021 · 02:00 pm

In a traditional Lohri song about a folk hero, echoes of Punjab’s ongoing struggle for a fair deal

The rebellion of Dulla Bhatti is a reminder of the region’s long history of agrarian protest – and its fight for justice.

Mallika Kaur

· Jan 13, 2021 · 06:30 am

A hundred years ago, a fiery speech in Uttarakhand escalated the protests against forced labour

How protests by peasants in British Kumaun ended the oppressive begar system.

Shekhar Pathak

· Jan 12, 2021 · 07:30 am

By treating protesting farmers as if they’re ignorant, government is repeating an old colonial idea

The old rural-urban binary continues to dog a large section of India’s urban elite and hinders their capacity to make sense of the farmers’ assertions.

Surinder S Jodhka

· Jan 12, 2021 · 06:30 am

How conceptual vagueness in Indian law allows for political manipulation and polarisation

Since Independence, the wording of some legislations relating to particular religions give the impression of religion as being among the grounds of law.

Rahul Govind

· Jan 11, 2021 · 07:30 am

As robots dance in the US and animation films get ‘Soul’, a cautionary tale brews in India

Harking back to past glory without creating an open, tolerant society is sure to kill a spirit of innovation.

Mauktik Kulkarni

· Jan 10, 2021 · 11:30 am