The Fires of Nuh

The recent communal violence in Nuh and the government's punitive measures have further dispossessed its Muslim residents, already victims of cow vigilantes and of poverty. ▶14-Aug-2023
Harsh Mander

September 1, 2023

The Fires of Nuh, Demolitions: Rule by Law or Rule of Law?, The Politics over California’s Anti-Caste Bill, and more

The Business of News EP 3: Strategising Growth

Jayant Sriram speaks with Vignesh Vellore, the co-founder of 'The News Minute', and Nikhil Kanekal on collaborations among media organisations, joint strategy for achieving growth, and the…
▶31-Aug-2023
The India Forum

Open Letter to Corporate India to De-fund Hate

An open letter by current and former faculty members at the IIM Bangalore calling to defund the hate speech.
▶31-Aug-2023
The India Forum

The Politics over California’s Anti-Caste Bill

Anxiety amongst upper-caste diaspora that their narrative about a benign Indian culture would be undone lies at the heart of the opposition to California’s bill to ban caste discrimination.
▶30-Aug-2023
Prabodh Jamwal, Anuradha Bhasin

Jayanta Mahapatra: A Poetry of Decreation

'Patience, a quality of attention which is the finest refinement of desire, distinguished the work of Jayanta Mahapatra'. Meena Alexander's discussion of Jayanta Mahapatra's…
▶29-Aug-2023
Meena Alexander

Anaemia, Nutrition, and Health Inequalities in India

Kiran Kumbhar speaks with Veena Shatrugna, a medical doctor and a public health researcher, on the challenges in anaemia and undernutrition in India and on recent attempts to dilute the diagnostic…
▶24-Aug-2023
The India Forum
Book
Book Review

Can the West be Saved?

In his book on the crisis in democratic capitalism, Martin Wolf perceives a challenge to Western civilisation itself. This would require revolutionary change. But Wolf's project, instead, is to…
▶23-Aug-2023
Archishman Raju

The Sophistry of Calls to Replace the Constitution

India’s Constitution is more robust than the politics of those who call for its replacement.
▶23-Aug-2023
Rohin Bhatt

Big Problems, Small Wins

Despite good intentions, much in the new Rajasthan gig workers act is built on weak foundations, which will make it difficult to implement. This makes it unlikely that the workers will actually get…
▶22-Aug-2023
Sabina Dewan

Demolitions: Rule by Law or Rule of Law?

We demand that governments follow the rule of law when clearing ‘illegal’ settlements. But if laws permit the same outcomes as those that might be caused by the state ignoring them, is this variant…
▶17-Aug-2023
Abhinav Sekhri

The Fires of Nuh

The recent communal violence in Nuh and the government's punitive measures have further dispossessed its Muslim residents, already victims of cow vigilantes and of poverty.
▶14-Aug-2023
Harsh Mander