An open letter to Umar Khalid: If you are doing time, you may as well do it well

Two friends write to the student leader, jailed in the Delhi riots case.

Aswathi Nair

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Anirban Bhattacharya

· 7 hours ago

An open letter to all Indian-American parents who support Donald Trump

Before voting for the racist man in the White House, remember that for him, Indian-Americans are nothing more than a pawn in his agenda.

Yamini Panagari

· Yesterday · 06:30 pm

With Jagan Reddy’s allegations against Supreme Court judge, silence is not the right strategy

A week on, the people of India do not know the response of the Supreme Court to the letter from the Andhra Pradesh chief minister.

Sruthisagar Yamunan

· Oct 18, 2020 · 09:00 am

Tanishq ad withdrawal shows that corporations won’t fight hate – it’s up to individuals to resist

Capital, it is clear, will bend to state pressure in India.

Radha Khan

· Oct 16, 2020 · 06:30 am

Turning ‘secular’: What the Maharashtra governor’s letter says about the Indian republic

For decades, Hindutva lurked in the shadows of the Indian state. Now it is reinvented as a public virtue.

Ipsita Chakravarty

· Oct 15, 2020 · 07:30 am

Tanishq fracas offers clarity on Hindutva definition of ‘love jihad’: any inter-faith marriage

The prohibition against inter-religious marriage sits at a powerful intersection of communalism and patriarchy. 

Shoaib Daniyal

· Oct 15, 2020 · 06:30 am

Jailed activist Stan Swamy has spent half a century making Adivasi struggles his own

The Jesuit priest has sought to interpret his vocation and training in Ignatius Loyola’s philosophy in the service of the most deprived, the most threatened.

John Dayal

· Oct 14, 2020 · 06:30 am

Tanishq pulls ad featuring inter-faith match, a sign of the angry, fearful times in which we live

Detractors claimed that the jewellery spot normalises so-called love jihad.

Karthik Srinivasan

· Oct 13, 2020 · 12:00 pm

With Shaheen Bagh ruling, Supreme Court gifts state more powers to control democratic dissent

It is not the job of the judiciary to prescribe restrictions on rights.

Rangin Pallav Tripathy

· Oct 13, 2020 · 10:30 am

The twilight of Indian democracy

Protest and journalism are criminal acts, Parliament is irrelevant, duties supersede rights,and profanity flows from the ordinary.

Samar Halarnkar

· Oct 12, 2020 · 06:30 am

Ramachandra Guha: At Koshy’s Parade Café, memories of lime juice – and an owl on a moonlit night

The attractions of the establishment are various: the light, the ambience, the food, the location, and not least, the affable Prem Koshy.

Ramachandra Guha

· Oct 11, 2020 · 06:30 am

Mental health and caste: Society needs to talk about the politics of well-being

The acknowledgement that an individual’s mind is affected by casteism and patriarchy is often missing.

Divya Kandukuri

· Oct 10, 2020 · 11:30 am