Attacks in Sri Lanka and elsewhere suggest that the al-Qaida/ISIS phenomenon is still very much with us, despite...

The business potential is limitless and the expensive Facebook war rooms established to fight for truth will start...

New climate movements are talking of equity, not just urgent action. They need to get even bolder about global...

TV anchor Ravish Kumar, a kill-joy and not a theatre-lover, dislikes the very sight of a Nero fiddling and has run a...

Law, police and ideology are all targeting those claiming social, economic and political rights in India. But groups...

Priyanka Dubey has reported on gender-based violence for years. Her new book is out in the UK and US on 8 March,...

Through aggressive rhetoric and miscalculations nuclear war can happen by accident. As the Trump-Kim circus...

The Science Congress and Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF), held in India every January, are the largest events of...

Cases come as rights advocates warn such arguments are increasingly being ‘weaponised’ against women’s and LGBT equality.

It was not always like this. Hinduism neutralised competing elements by absorbing them. This faith tradition was...

Read the newspapers, listen to the TV “debates” and see the WhatsApp-trained ignorant armies clash day and night.

Of course, politicians did not create the powerful Hindu caste system. They merely exploit this fault-line,...

MPs call on Richard Cook to “emerge from the shadows” after we uncover his trail of illegal waste, unpaid bills and...

In a politically-surcharged atmosphere, no one should doubt that the appearance of Lord Ram’s idol in the mosque on...

It is not enough to have token female representation in negotiations. Or room for compromise on the interests and...

Centuries of entrenched patriarchy cannot be upturned in a month. But this country finally looks ready for a...

It was not always like that. Those tracking the progress of democracy in India should interview political activists...

Just occasionally, the UK public gets reminded that AIDS isn’t over and done with. Not at home, and certainly not...

In the pattern of authoritarianism taking over Indian politics since 2014, social movements, activists, and...

As a Sri Lankan citizen living in the UK, the author finds himself in the eye of the two political storms tearing...