By B Sivaraman. Ramnaresh from Kanahiya Durlapur village, Pratapgarh, says once they reach the towns, they turn anarchic. They climb on top of private vehicles, block roads, eat free from roadside shops, and forcibly hitch free rides. Anti-Muslim sentiments are whipped upwhen the yatras pass though Muslim areas. The yatra becomes an exercise in communal polarization.

In conversation with Priyamvada Gopal. The scholar, Paul Gilroy, talks in terms ‘post-colonial melancholia’ and that is certainly there, but, also, I think, a toxic cocktail of rage, entitlement, false victimhood, exceptionalism, and vanity.

By Ramsharan Joshi. When journalists resist authoritarianism, they are punished. A glaring example of this is the police filing an FIR against a brave journalist like Ajit Anjum.

By Amit Sengupta. The sudden, radical rupture inflames the rain-soaked afternoon. The fire spreads in the eyes, and inside clenched fists. A mother holds her little child close to her heart, eyes blazing. A thin, wiry young woman in a red sari, becomes a fiery symbol of shakti – women’s power. A grandmother is so intense, that her entire history of angst and anger explodes.

In conversation with Seema Mustafa: As journalists, never forget that you are just a messenger between the poor and the deprived, and the corridors of power.

By Nalini Ranjan Mohanty
. Branded a ‘communist lunatic’ by Trump, young Mamdani is the new star on that progressive horizon that holds out the hope for an egalitarian America. Like him. it’s time for Rahul Gandhi to raise the spectre, follow the advice of Thomas Piketty...

Short Story: Their concept note said that cross-border firing could be stopped if India and Pakistan agreed to substitute firing with...

By NR Mohanty. In this shallow wolf-warrior diplomacy, the PM is well aware -- there is a big and powerful elephant in the room: China.