India Today

The power of the Indian State resides atop the one-square-kilometre Raisina Hill at the centre of New Delhi, housing the offices of the President and Prime Minister of India. It also has some of India’s most vital central ministries. Two of them—defe

China and India share one of the longest borders in the world in the Himalayas. Much of it is inhabited by a variety of Buddhists—Tibetans, Ladakhis, Sikkimese, Bhutanese and Monpas. What is the geopolitical importance of this ethnic and religious la

The registration of sedition cases under Section 124A of IPC, now almost an everyday affair, is mainly critiqued as a misuse of law. However, framing it as ‘misuse of law’ fails to look at how misuse is part of the design of this law and its intended

After negotiations spanning over a year, the Americans have signed a peace agreement with the very force they had militarily dislodged from power in Afghanistan in 2001, describing it, with recourse to some linguistic gymnastics, as the “Islamic Emir

This year, in January, Hank Azaria, who voiced Apu from The Simpsons for 30 years, announced that he was stepping down. For Americans of Indian origin, the move was of consequence. Since the release of comedian Hari Kondabolu’s documentary, The Probl

IT IS 1943 AND D-DAY PREPARATIONS are in full swing in Britain. The Great Western Railway (GWR) has to produce vital equipment with limited resources. It also has to work out how to efficiently transport arriving American troops to their various base

The last line of Agha Shahid Ali’s poem ‘Chandni Chowk, Delhi’ gives Akhil Katyal’s new book its title, but the entire collection seems impelled by the poem’s opening command—“Swallow this summer street…”. In these Delhi poems, Katyal imbibes the str

Biju Patnaik was the chief minister of Odisha twice (from 1961-1963, and from 1990-1995), but when he died in 1997, a New York Times obituary revealed the larger limits of his legacy: “His reputation in India rested less on his performance as state g