The 2004 poll, not to mention the 1977 election Indira Gandhi called to legitimise the Emergency, was a textbook case of the pitfalls of assuming that the campaign merely reinforces pre-existing trends
SWAPAN DASGUPTAThis tendency of undermining the lower castes & minorities is also witnessed in University Grants Commission draft proposal that wants to remove reservation in higher education recruitments
AMRITA DATTAThis ‘Other’ Felu may have even cultivated greater, more socially diverse, friends. But would Felu’s bhadralok admirers — self-appointed gate-keepers of cultural puritanism — approve?
UDDALAK MUKHERJEEA selective and decontextualised look at the past is no substitute for a genuine analysis of what India under Jawaharlal Nehru and subsequent governments got right and wrong
CHARU SUDAN KASTURIIndia is expected to host the Ukrainian foreign minister in the next few days: he will be the highest-ranking leader from Kyiv to visit New Delhi since Russia’s full-scale invasion
THE EDITORIAL BOARDKritika made her Bollywood debut as a trainee pilot in Sidharth Malhotra-starrer Yodha