Lasting stability in Kashmir hinges on political inclusion, not suppression. More crackdowns and more alienation in Kashmir may satisfy Modi’s core support base, but it ensures only cyclical violence ...

The horrific attack in Pahalgam, Kashmir—which claimed at least 28 lives and left dozens critically injured—deserves our full and unequivocal condemnation. The massacre of unarmed civilians in cold ...

Doing the same thing and expecting different results—commonly attributed to Albert Einstein, this is the definition of insanity. It is a fitting description of the Narendra Modi government's approach ...

Describing the behaviour of Indian journalists, editors and media-owners during India’s declared Emergency, from 1975 to 1977, veteran Bharatiya Janata Party leader LK Advani remembered their craven ...

AROUND TEN EDITORS, their faces tense, gathered in a conference room in a swanky Noida office. Among them were the executive editor of CNN News18, the chief executive producer of IBN Network and the ...

AS THE JEEP he was in approached the Shilapani bridge, Jagadish Chandra would not have known he was being watched. It had been a trying and chaotic few weeks for him, but he had tried to right his ...

THE FEAR OF AN ATTACK was always present, but Ramtiem Darngawn and two of his friends had convinced each other that everything would be okay. The village of Muolzawl, situated on the banks of the Jiri ...

“WE CAME HERE AS DEVOTEES,” Valsan Thillankeri thundered into a Kerala Police mike-set. He was standing among a circle of policemen watching calmly, immediately outside the premises of the Sabarimala ...

ON A FEBRUARY MORNING LAST YEAR, Sujit Yadav, a Christian pastor, drove across the wheat and potato fields of Uttar Pradesh’s Jaunpur district to the home of a congregant, in the village of Bhalwahi.

WE HAVE NEVER had an election like this before, with the people split between elation and foreboding. The majority eagerly anticipates the result, with many among them unconcerned about what it would ...

Sitting in a vibrant room riddled with Wi-fi routers and cables, and his YouTube Creators Award perched upon the top shelf, Ambrish Bhatia lit a cigarette. “I didn ...

I WAS RAISED along the banks of the river Pabbar, whose once robust flow has dwindled into a mere stream, its vitality drained by the construction of a hydroelectric project. Rivers are polluted, ...