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All is not well
By Rakesh Agrawal. Trump's tariffs are going to hit India real hard.
Oct 65 min read


Mass Uprisings in Our Times
By Aditya Nigam. Ever since the Soviet bloc's collapse, 35 years down the line, we are still forced to deal with this ‘blank in the crowded text’ of contemporary politics -- an empty place where the Left once stood but which revealed itself to be too stultified to show any sign of any movement.
Sep 194 min read


From ‘Howdy, Modi’ to Adios Amigo: How the Modi-Trump Friendship Imploded
By Murali Kamma. What could go wrong? Everything, apparently. So, what happened?
Aug 314 min read


Don't say goodbye, as yet
By Ratna Raman. Mangoes breathe life and meaning into the summer season. Mango ice cream, mango shake, and kulfi remain perennial favourites. The avant garde are spoilt for choice with desserts such as mango soufflés, mango cheesecake, plain mango cakes, mango yoghurt, mango jellies, jujubes, sandwiches and more. Mango jam, mango toffee, mango burfee, mango, halwa, mango kheer, mangoes in cream, are eternally delicious household visitors. Mango is the Queen.
Aug 2610 min read


The Lapdog Cage Seduction
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.
Jul 237 min read


Maps and Mappings: New Perspectives on Cartography
By Raju Mansukhani. Vignettes from the just-released catalogue of 'Picturing Place: Painted and Printed Maps at the Udaipur Court'.
Jul 106 min read


Small eyes? Eyes that don’t even open?
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.
Jun 294 min read
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