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Published in: HomeAuthoritarian populism and popular struggles in Modi’s IndiaIn the pattern of authoritarianism taking over Indian politics since 2014, social movements, activists, and...
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Published in: openIndia#MetooIndia: the future is female. Or is it really?The burgeoning movement has spilled forth beyond the confines of the film and entertainment industry. But how far will it go?
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Published in: openIndia#MeToo movement rumbles on in IndiaWorking up public outrage is an art and not all political parties are able to create mass hysteria.
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Published in: openIndia#MeToo in a country that worships God as womanDuring a festival celebrating the Goddess who kills a demon menacing Gods, scores of educated Indian women have...
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Published in: openIndiaGood Bye, Gandhi!Writing on Gandhi in an India stricken by faux patriotism and jingoism causes gloom. A poem in Indian English...
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Published in: openIndiaHyper-extremism tends to follow extremismThe Hindutva storm-troopers would feel let down, having been trained to abuse the secular Hindus, liberals,...
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Published in: openIndiaFaultlines in India's parliamentary democracyThe executive is hardly accountable to the legislature, legislators lack tangible power, so notions of the consent...
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Published in: openIndiaNaipaul: an abandoned child looks and relooks at the motherlandNaipaul always felt that his books would stand the test of time. But which of his books on India, after multiple...
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Published in: openIndiaDemocracy eats its parents!"If a principled yet powerful leader does emerge, he can only come from yesterday’s disempowered classes."
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Published in: HomeIndian elections: disinformation threatens to exacerbate religious tensionsIn a country with low press freedom and media literacy, fake news could be a recipe for disaster.
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Published in: openIndiaSubverting democracy without vote-riggingRecent events in some prominent democratic nations have highlighted the internal threats that are hard to see and...
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Published in: HomeHarvesting hope: the permaculture movement in IndiaThe major transformative potential of permaculture in India lies in its ability to make small-scale farmers...
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Published in: openIndiaGod votes in India, abstains in Britain, Part IIUnlike in India, British democracy, distorted by Mammon, is spared by God.
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Published in: openIndiaGod votes in India, abstains in Britain. Part 1Once Britain moved beyond religious nationalism, religion itself became a spent force, though not one prevented from...
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Published in: openIndiaHow students in India are resisting the Hindu-right's attacks on universitiesIn India, student protests have escalated under the current far-right, Hindu-supremacist government and been...
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Published in: openIndiaIndian Supreme Court curbs one of the world’s most powerful anti-discrimination lawsThe vitriolic anger directed at the PoA might mean that Indian society is not entirely ready to face the depth of...
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Published in: openIndiaSilence and din define Indian journalismRavish Kumar has recorded the Republic of Fear for posterity. These are the heroes of World Press Freedom Day.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Political precariatThe concept of the precariat has explanatory power day-to-day and transformative potential in the socio-political...
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Published in: openIndiaWhy the ‘good’ refugee is a bad ideaAn opaque process of separating the ‘good’ Rohingya refugees from the ‘bad’ ones has begun under conditions where...
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Published in: openIndiaThe Commonwealth gets extra attentionSome 5,000 participants from government, business and civil society have arrived for the Commonwealth Heads of...
