The protests that have swept Sri Lanka for months, threatening the existing order, did not emerge out of thin air. They may have been sparked by an immediate economic crisis but they are a part of a…
‘Is there something in the shared, yet dissimilar, histories of Kashmiris that might yet contain the hope of a more viable future, with all its challenges and difficulties?'
Akhilesh Yadav and the SP have paid the price for going into a shell after the 2017 defeat in the Uttar Pradesh elections. The party needs to be on the streets as it used to earlier and it needs to…
The Sangh Parivar's valorisation of Rani Gaidilniu is a rare instance when a tribal leader from the North East is celebrated as a national icon over and above other — often Christian — leaders…
The BSP’s strategy of combining a core base with moneyed candidates no longer works in Uttar Pradesh. The BJP has crafted a new winning formula that uses only elements of this old model.
"Sacred Cows is valuable for enriching the existing ethnographic material about the impact of caste norms and Hindu nationalist politics on meat-eating, with fresh insights on this phenomenon in…
"The state’s withdrawal from partnerships with CSOs and its move towards market-based institutions and high net-worth individuals has privatised its welfare and redistribution functions. This…
