politics
9 ARTICLES
Meet the influencer marketing agencies working with the Modi government
The list includes a brand that promotes “Linkedin influencers” and another that is run by a former publicist of the prime minister.
03 Aug 2023
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.
20 Mar 2023
India’s G20 presidency, where photo-ops are mistaken for outcomes and a stage for a summit
New Delhi is desperate for a seat at the global high table that would validate Narendra Modi’s domestic image of a powerful global leader. But inflated opinions are often a trap.
09 Jan 2023
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
Goodbye economic planning. Hello policy anarchy
The NITI Aayog, which replaced the Planning Commission, has been reduced to a mere think tank whose officials act as mouthpieces of the government.
12 Jul 2022
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
Less worry. More action.
13 Nov 2020
The cruel politics of textbooks
Our textbooks have mirrored successive governments’ visions and hopes—with teachers and students too often mere bystanders
17 Dec 2019