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The cracks deepen
The Telegraph· 2 hours agoIs it difficult to remain friends with people whose political views are different from our own? How do such ideological differences play out in the family? Such thorny questions are as old as human society.
Ramachandra Guha: Five decades after Lohia’s death, re-reading his perceptive writing on caste
Scroll· 24 hours agoIn the last decades of British rule in India, socialists and communists were active in anti-colonial politics. In the first decades of Independence, both groups were important challengers to ...
Explained: The story of the Emergency
Indian Express· 2 days agoAlmost all opposition leaders were put in jail. Fundamental rights, including the freedom of speech and expression guaranteed under Article 19(1)(a),...
A new documentary restarts the old debate on 1984 violence. Genocide, riots, pogrom?
Theprint· 4 days ago“How does one go about naming a violence?” asks Milind in his documentary, which he had filmed as...
How Sanjay Gandhi led Emergency-era ‘nasbandi’ campaign
Indian Express· 6 days agoThe Emergency was declared on the midnight of June 24-25, exactly 49 years ago. In the 21 months...