India

JNU: Relentless Struggle for the Right to Education

JNU has always walked in solidarity with the downtrodden in their struggles. The administration wants to kill its progressive essence…

5 years ago

Ayodhya: A Solomonic Judgment, Not Quite Closure

The Solomonic verdict by the Supreme Court will not help in halting the march of victimisation in India.

5 years ago

‘Ancient Indians were compulsively carnivorous’

Historian and archaeologist Nayanjot Lahiri speaks to Amit Sengupta.

5 years ago

Kashmir: A muscular decision that has weakened India’s hand

It is a typically predictable Catch-22 scenario, and even the most muscular gamblers might have actually botched it up very,…

5 years ago

Howdy Kashmir: When Constitutional Morality has No Takers

These are dark times not just for those who are living in an unprecedented lockdown, but also for those whose…

5 years ago

Kashmir: 10 Million Dead Phones and No One to Say ‘Hello’

EDITORIAL: These are worrying times, but we may still hope to pray for peace in the days to come before…

5 years ago

Kashmir: A Beautiful Lake in Barbed Wires

Editor’s Note: Amit was in Srinagar from August 31 to September 4, almost 25 days after Delhi declared Jammu and…

5 years ago

Chinese challenge to Modi’s Kashmir gamble

With an adverse international media coverage on mass human rights violations, the UN security council taking up Kashmir for the…

5 years ago

Personal Political: Eerie Silence

The trauma of Kashmir in the larger context of the fight for democracy and human rights.

5 years ago

Goodbye, Mrs Dikshit

Sheila Dikshit would be missed as a liberal democrat, a great and visionary administrator, a symbol of urban modernity, a…

5 years ago