'No White Male Saviour, Please': Outlook Editor Writes On The Israel-Iran Conflict
This isn’t to say these regimes aren’t oppressive and have not tortured their people, especially women, but to impose a war on their country invoking the brutal regime and making a case for bombings is to undermine people’s ability to question and collectivise on their own. We know from history how many countries have been abandoned, like Afghanistan
Iran’s Deeper Battle Over Culture And Values
As missiles fall silent—for now—it’s time to explore whether the heart of the Iran-Israel conflict lies in a deeper battle over culture and values
How Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu Is Rewriting The Script Of War
Israel under Benjamin Netanyahu now seems out of control. The 12-day Iran-Israel war, backed by Big Daddy US, proves that
Israel-Iran Conflict: Drink From The Poisoned Chalice
Where do Israel, Iran and the US go from here? Will there be permanent peace or is this just a lull before a storm?
Veil, Women And Warfare: Women's Agency In Complex Landscapes
Policies—whether in the West or in the Muslim world—are imposed on women, not developed with them or for them. How they dress becomes shorthand for community honour, nationalism or piety
Regime Change: US Lacks Moral High Ground On Iran
The US has zero moral authority to want to tell the Tehran regime to behave itself or be nice to its own people
The Hands That Guard The Ayatollah Khamenei
The Iranian constitution is instrumental in giving an ideological and political base for the theocratic state, notwithstanding recurrent internal unrest, economic hardships and wars fought over the last four-and-a-half decades
Many Folds Of The Persian Carpet
Iranian dissidents—who once defied the Shah and then the clerics—have united against foreign attacks and have called for a new vision of freedom and unity
Technology Warfare: The Way We War
Modern warfare is a shape-shifting entity and the information explosion has expanded the battlespace far beyond the battlefield
Zohran Mamdani: Red-Blue Republic Of New York
Not the conservative ‘red’ as Zohran Mamdani is a democratic socialist
She Voter: The Game Changer In Bihar Elections
Political parties in Bihar are looking to woo women voters—who constitute almost half of the vote bank—ahead of the state Assembly election
Notes From Inside Taloja Prison
Mahesh Raut, a TISS alumnus and rights activist working for Adivasis and marginalised communities, was arrested in June 2018 in the Bhima-Koregaon Maoist conspiracy case and has since been incarcerated in jail
Free The Word: Resisting Book Bans
Book bans are about fear, control and the desperate need to manage public imagination
Guru Dutt: Yeh Duniya Agar Mil Bhi Jaye to Kya Hai
Guru Dutt, whose birth centenary falls this July, created cinematic masterpieces amid the fog of his own uncertainty
Forever Hotel: Book Review Of Great Eastern Hotel
This novel is a flawed, luminous, maximalist love letter to Kolkata’s layered soul
When The Words Stop
Our worst algorithms have come home to haunt us. The nightmare is no longer something we dream up. It is dreamt on our behalf
Growing Up In The Iconic Lanes Of Delhi’s Connaught Place
As children, we didn’t quite understand what was happening but we knew something was amiss.Only later did I understand what not seeing eye to eye meant.