It takes a lot for a military chief to go public with his grievances—especially under the Modi regime. That Air Chief Marshal AP Singh recently did so highlights the severity of the crisis in the ...

IN SEPTEMBER 2015, Tapor Pullom went hunting and never came back. His family did not think much of it at first. The 46-year-old had been venturing into the mountains near his village of Monigong, in ...

The Tamil magazine Ananda Vikatan’s digital version, Vikatan Plus, published a cartoon depicting Prime Minister Narendra Modi in handcuffs, sitting next to a laughing Donald Trump, on 10 February.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi described the Kumbh Mela as a “grand Mahayajna of Unity” that “has strengthened India’s national consciousness” for thousands of years—a blatantly exclusionary statement, ...

ON 13 APRIL 1979, soldiers and civilians dance in the streets of the Ugandan capital, Kampala, after Yusuf Lule is sworn in as president, ending the eight-year dictatorship of Idi Amin. Lule chaired ...

A COLONIAL ENTERPRISE, the Bombay Burmah Trading Company, Limited, was established in 1863. Colonial Burma was the world’s largest supplier of teak, and the BBTCL its largest exporter. It was a ...

Keya Acharya is a freelance journalist based in Bangalore. She has spent three decades writing on the environment.

The question of political transformation does not only beleaguer VD Savarkar, it turns out. In trying to answer this question apropos the Hindutva proponent, Arun Shourie provokes a similar question ...

The author and activist Sudhir Dhawale was released on 24 January, after six years and seven months in jail. Dhawale, who is one of the founders of the anti-caste group Republican Panthers Jatiantachi ...