There is much that India can learn from Germany's remembrance of the Holocaust, though the insensitivity towards the Palestinians is a smear. Germany too can learn from India, for while India…
Sunil Amrith's "The Burning Earth" is 'history as literature and history as social science, and occasionally, history as natural history as well. It blends and brings together…
Savarkar's Marathi writings are key to understanding his political thought. His literary work laid the groundwork for his ideas of Hindutva and devastatingly magnified the popularity of his…
‘Manu Pillai has the skill to pull arguments, hypotheses, theories, & anecdotes from a number of vast & varied sources. He then arranges them seamlessly in a composite narrative that reminds…
Neoliberalism has empowered India’s big capital to control the state, reversing an earlier relationship. Capital, once subordinate and nationally defined, now dominates and defines the nation, using…
Sixty years ago, the Communist Party of India split into two. Ideological differences have kept the successor parties apart – and will probably continue to do so – even as domestic politics keeps…
Reports of the death of Buddhism in precolonial India were greatly exaggerated. The many Buddhisms promoted by ideologies across the spectrum in modern times came to distinctively shape South Asia.
Two examples from mediaeval Odisha’s bhakti tradition show how debates and differences about the sacred were part of devotional practice, and not forced onto us after the institutionalisation of…
The underground Congress Radio was a story of plucky young nationalists challenging foreign rule during the Quit India Movement and contesting colonial control of the airwaves.
