CATEGORIES
FROM WHERE THE ORDERS CAME
ARMY OFFICERS TESTIFY THAT TWO GENERALS OVERSAW THE TORTURE AND MURDER OF CIVILIANS IN POONCH
Risking It All
What Mukesh Chandrakar’s murder reveals about reporting from Bastar
The Good Doctor Had His Problems
What we cannot ignore about Manmohan Singh
"THERE LIES MY COUNTRY"
Undoing nationalisms in Fahmida Riaz's exile writings
CAPITAL GAINS
The BJP's strategy to unseat the AAP in Delhi
Peeling the Layers
The philosophy behind The Savala Vada, India's The Onion
DRIVE TO SURVIVE
The discreet charm of Chandrababu Naidu
HOW TO SEE ART?
BN Goswamy's strategies of seeing
Bitter Crop
Ghana's cacao plantations in crisis
SURVEYORS OF DESTRUCTION
An atmosphere of fear persists in the wake of the Sambhal violence
SITE OF DECEIT
HOW THE ASI FORTIFIES HINDUTVA HISTORY
The Broken Pact
Minority legislators rue the erosion of the Constitution under the Modi government/
Hate by Proxy
How shadow accounts on Meta spread BJP propaganda in Jharkhand
Mob Mentality
How the Modi government fuels a dangerous vigilantism
RIP TIDES
Shahidul Alam’s exploration of Bangladeshi photography and activism
Trickle-down Effect
Nepal–India tensions have advanced from the diplomatic level to the public sphere
Editor's Pick
ON 23 SEPTEMBER 1950, the diplomat Ralph Bunche, seen here addressing the 1965 Selma to Montgomery March, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. The first black Nobel laureate, Bunche was awarded the prize for his efforts in ending the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.
Shades of The Grey
A Pune bakery rejects the rigid binaries of everyday life / Gender
Scorched Hearths
A photographer-nurse recalls the Delhi violence
Licence to Kill
A photojournalist’s account of documenting the Delhi violence
CRIME AND PREJUDICE
The BJP and Delhi Police’s hand in the Delhi violence
Bled Dry
How India exploits health workers
The Bookshelf: The Man Who Learnt To Fly But Could Not Land
This 2013 novel, newly translated, follows the trajectory of its protagonist, KTN Kottoor.
Status Update
India’s telling silence on the Hagia Sophia controversy
Tasks Forced
Sri Lanka’s excessively militarised response to COVID-19
SOCIAL STRUCTURE
Caste and the delusion of “merit” in Indian higher education
OCCUPATION HAZARDS
The heavy cost of revoking Article 370 in Kashmir
THE BOOKSHELF
THE WOMEN WHO FORGOT TO INVENT FACEBOOK AND OTHER STORIES
WRINKLES IN TIME
How a contemporary Urdu writer dissolves the boundaries between traditional and modern
LAST GASP
What Tuberculosis can teach India about COVID-19