There is a string of islands sitting roughly 1,200 kilometres southeast of the Indian mainland, deep in the Bay of Bengal. They are Indian territory. They straddle one of the busiest shipping lanes on earth. They...
90 miles. That is the distance between the Florida Keys and the Cuban coastline. In geopolitical terms, it is almost nothing — a puddle separating the world's most powerful military from one of its oldest adversaries....
Every 5 years, something remarkable happens across India's half a billion voting constituencies. Politicians stop pretending to govern and begin, openly and without embarrassment,...
There are anniversaries that demand more than commemoration. The 135th birth anniversary of Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar is one of them. Across India today, his...
There has never been a political figure in modern history who has kept psychiatrists, psychologists, and mental health professionals quite so busy — and...
We built a moral cage around desire, called it civilization, handed out wedding rings, and then acted genuinely surprised when people kept picking the...
There's a peculiar ritual that plays out every summer across India. Families gather. Relatives who haven't spoken in years suddenly have opinions. Mithai is...
There is something almost Kafkaesque about the scene that played out on March 5, 2026. The United States Treasury Secretary, Scott Bessent, posted on...
There is a particular species of cruelty that schoolteachers in small Indian cities practised in the 1990s with an almost artistic commitment. It was...
