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Kapil Komireddi
Kapil Komireddi
Kapil is a journalist, book critic and author. His first book, Malevolent Republic: A Short History of the New India (2019), was published to critical and commercial acclaim in India, the UK and the US. He has written from South Asia, Eastern Europe and the Middle East—including Syria, Pakistan and Palestine—and his work appears, among other publications, in The New York Times, The Critic, Foreign Policy, The Washington Post, The Economist, TIME, CNN, The Guardian and Le Monde diplomatique. He is a frequent contributor to The Spectator and an international affairs panellist on Monocle24 radio.
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The story of India has been reduced to one man’s journey
The billion-and-a-half citizens of the ‘mother of democracy’ are mere extras in the story of Narendra Modi.
Recent Editions
The story of Sri Lanka’s Tamils is a lesson for India
Rajiv Gandhi’s killers did grievous wrong, but they are also victims of an ethno-religious regime that regards them as less than human.
21 Nov 2022
Abdul Kalam did more than just rehabilitate the presidency. He ennobled it
The late scientist, who would have turned 91 on 15 October, exemplified the authority and dignity that India’s founding personalities envisaged in the country’s highest office.
17 Oct 2022
The malady of public infrastructure in India
When public works are reduced to instruments of self-enrichment, designers and planners lose any stimulus to apply themselves.
19 Sept 2022
Sacralising—and smirching—the tricolour
In one stroke, the prime minister succeeded not only in breeding resentment for the flag, but also in converting the revered standard of our nation into a symbol of oppression.
22 Aug 2022
Older Editions
The worrisome origins of our New India
Even if you refuse to accept the extensive claims that the Gujarat administration conspired to aid and abet the mobs that rampaged through the state in 2002, what is indisputable is that it failed spectacularly to stop them.
11 Jul 2022
How civility in public life died under BJP rule
Nupur Sharma’s recent tirade was novel in that it went beyond denigrating Muslims and assailed the revered founder of Islam.
12 Jun 2022
Letter from Yerevan: The tragedy of Armenia
The war with Azerbaijan in 2020, culminating in defeat and the loss of the ethnically Armenian territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, has psychologically debilitated the world’s oldest Christian state.
09 May 2022
Delhi’s silence on Russian aggression will shame a generation of Indians
India is right not to endure the West’s hectoring. But given Delhi’s influence and leverage with the Kremlin, it can do much more than send aid to Ukraine.
11 Apr 2022
How Ajit Doval failed as the national security advisor
And why Brahma Chellaney should replace him.
14 Mar 2022