CATEGORIES

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

Songs Of Freedom

The distorted history behind Irish nationalist folklore

Boiling Over

Gogunda’s culinary workers fight back against exploitation

Lost Asylum

How Italy’s new anti-immigration law affects its small towns

Does The Constitution Keep Its Promises?

What makes India so distinct?

Burning Resentment

The discontented cremators of Pashupatinath

Early Warning

The ominous CBI raids on the promoters of NDTV

The Quality Of Mercy

Pranab Mukherjee’s troubling record on clemency for death-row convicts