CATEGORIES

Squandered Chances

The ruling parties’ defeat in local polls has dealt a blow to Sri Lanka’s hard-won democratising process 

The Lede

Fine-Tuned India’s exclusive circles of competitive whistling / Music

An Awkward Silence

Massive layoffs at newspapers expose professional conditions that undermine the public sphere / Media

Mind Game

An unusual sport’s rapid growth in India / Sport

Silver Lining

How Peru’s poorest are solving their water woes / Politics

High Horses

Polo and patriotism in northern Pakistan / Sport

Stolen Turf

The BJP has usurped part of Kanshi Ram’s dream / Politics

Unhappy Anniversary

Taking stock after half a century of Dravidian rule in Tamil Nadu / Politics

Water and Fire

Mamata Banerjee’s simmering confrontation with the BJP / Politics

The Diminishing Middle

How Modi is restructuring the BJP / Politics

Drawing The Line

Why the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill united northeastern India in protest / Communities

No Direction Home

How the world’s largest democracy treats the world’s most persecuted minority.

Leaves Of Grass

Uruguay’s experiment with legalising cannabis / Communities

Dream Sequence

Image-making with the visually impaired.

Bitter Ashes

The exploitative practices of the agarbatti industry/Labour

Persecution Complex

India’s radical meninists come out of the closet / Gender and Sexuality

Spoonful Of Sugar

Why India’s push for alt-med in the public health system is ill-advised / Science

City Plights

Indian states’ tight leash on urban governance / Government

Digging Deep

Recent excavations raise questions about Mizoram’s history / Communities

Perspectives - Under Illusion

How caste trumped class in the state elections / Politics

The Lede - Disc World

Chennai’s Ultimate Frisbee players navigate one of India’s only mixed-gender sports / Sport

Culture Of Fear

A wave of targeted attacks isolates Quetta’s Hazara community / Conflict.

The Image Makers

How ANI reports the government’s version of truth.

Federalism And Its Discontents

The doctrine of states’ rights in India

In Perfect Harmony

A new instrument brings together the music of the East and West / Arts

Pyrrhic Victory

The Awami League’s landslide win camouflages rising discontent in Bangladesh / Politics

Doctor Horror

The man at the centre of India’s most notorious kidney-transplant racket

Data Plans

How government decisions are helping Reliance Jio monopolise the telecom sector

The Summit Of Spin

Why progress in Indo-China relations under Modi is an illusion

States Of The Union

The pitfalls of India’s fiscal-federalism project