As news of Noam Chomsky’s failing health makes the rounds, a journalist and peace activist from Pakistan shares some of her learnings from interactions with a trailblazing public intellectual whose moral compass has impacted the world

The people of India have rejected Narendra Modi’s majoritarian Hindu politics. Even if Modi’s coalition returns him to power, his message has to change.

Aspiration of an inclusive India has been under threat in the Modi regime.

India’s politicians recognise the growing influence of women at the ballot box but their schemes to win their votes come with risks.

A month before the voters punched their preference in the […]

The battle for India is being fought in the states as the general election turns local

Cinematic fiction has become the convenient way of ‘correcting’ historical frictions, especially where facts are inconvenient

The business elite funds political parties and elections in return for economic favours or for securing favourable policies for their industry

Print and electronic media are coping admirably with the upheavals being wrought by social media.

Whimsical and capricious behaviour by public officials is not the sign of a democratic polity, but an absolutist one. The rule of law becomes the rule of the petty bureaucrat.