COVER STORY
My testimony to a return, after seven years, to Kanhupur, a sea-gnawed coastal village in Kendrapada district of Orissa
Outlook Magazine - 25 August 2014
Independence Day Special
Anticipating majoritarianism’s danger, Ambedkar advocated safeguards for Dalits
Pakistan faces August 14 with foreboding as righteous forces tear at each other over the state’s future path
Not a book to just skip through. You are so spellbound that you just don’t want to miss a word
A village—and its quirky, humdrum lives—is dragged into townhood. Nambisan’s scalpel probes every growth.
Anticipating majoritarianism’s danger, Ambedkar advocated safeguards for Dalits
Pakistan faces August 14 with foreboding as righteous forces tear at each other over the state’s future path
Business in bitesizes
Entries to the £30,000 Sunday Times Short Story Award are open till September 26.
Not a book to just skip through. You are so spellbound that you just don’t want to miss a word
A village—and its quirky, humdrum lives—is dragged into townhood. Nambisan’s scalpel probes every growth.
But will the JAC pass muster with the states?
The adoration-denigration cycle is the lot of those on pedestals
TRAI moves to put media houses in order
OTHER STORIES
I shall return to the House, sign my name and hope my arrears will be paid with retrospective effect and without any cuts
Malappuram, carved out for a religion, now holds a key to Kerala
Will the majoritarian project subvert the very democratic tradition that has brought the BJP to power?
In 2012, student groups made a dietary—and political—demand: beef on the menu
A common Gondi and a venerable Ravana will hopefully forge a Gond cultural identity
A historical walkthrough of how majoritarianism has made appearances in idea and practice....
The states of the nation: news, headlines, gossip, rumours, things we learnt
No, the food bears no semblance to the runny yellow dal and coarse rice that goes for jail food in Bollywood.
The Delhi-based musician is keen to introduce music education to every child in India.
Usual slapstick, loud and hammy acting, cringingly incorrect humour and corny lines.
Because leftists have allegedly distorted how we interpret the past, it does not mean the PM should give encouragement to beliefs which are laughable.
The emeritus professor of politics at Oxford on the importance of dissenting voices
Partition has been exposed as a bad idea, since ’47
General secretary of the Sri Lankan ultra-nationalist Buddhist organisation Bodu Bala Sena (BBS) on charges of being the mastermind of many anti-Muslim riots
Rajapaksa’s Sri Lanka stubbornly excludes minorities
Saudi challenge: Wahabism in a new neighbourhood
The editor-in-chief of <i>Rai al-Youm </i> on the Israel project and the massacre in Gaza.
This is the stage where all Muslim tropes live
Forget BJP, the Congress must curb its communalism
The dissenting judge is a powerful voice
The Constitution is armoured with the ‘basic structure’ doctrine, so it will be insurmountably difficult to establish a Hindu Rashtra
There is a broader—and deeper—meaning to democracy. Part of that ideal is the idea that every tessera in the mosaic can sparkle.
