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Congress leader Sonia Gandhi during a Congress Working Committee meeting, in New Delhi, on May 17, 1999.
POLITICS

A life lived through family and history

Saba Naqvi
MP Sonia Gandhi during the unveiling of her upcoming book Belonging: A Journey of Love, in New Delhi.
COMMENT

Sonia Gandhi and the unending agony of belonging

Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay
Tourists from various States had a fight at a ticket counter for not accepting Rs.1000 and Rs.500 notes at Tippu Palace, Bangalore, on November 9, 2016.
Data Room

Demonetisation’s 10th anniversary: an audit of what worked and what didn’t

Official data show the note ban briefly cut cash use and fake high-value notes, and drew more filers into the tax net, but most of those gains have since faded, and economists say the black-money objective was never met.
N V Geetha
N.V. Geetha

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Jamia Millia Islamia students celebrate after the university approved the implementation of the Students’ Union Constitution and promised to hold union elections in 2027, in New Delhi on October 30, 2026.
STUDENT AGITATIONS

Season for students

The recent agitations on the campuses of various Central universities underscore the anger and restlessness of young people, and follow a pattern that is emerging across the globe.
Anand Mishra
Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari singing during Annakut festival celebrations at ISKCON in Purba Medinipur on November 10, 2026.
WEST BENGAL

Drumbeats of a changing Bengal

Within six months of the BJP coming to power, the many hues that have long characterised Bengal society are being forced to give way to a single shade of saffron, and slow murmurs of discontent are beginning to be heard. 
Suhrid Sankar Chattopadhyay
Passively watching officers signal an erosion of the state's traditional monopoly on legitimate force.
Police Reforms

Editor’s Note

Vaishna Roy
Lal Thanhawla, Union Home Secretary R.D. Pradhan, and MNF chief Laldenga sign the Mizoram Peace Accord in New Delhi on June 30, 1986.
Political biography

Mizoram’s peacemaker

An account of modern Mizoram from the vantage point of its longest-serving Chief Minister, Lal Thanhawla: a statesman who bridged deep ideological divides to build the developmental state.
Vikas Kumar

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Sanjit Bunker Roy (1945-2026): A visionary of rural self-reliance

POLICE REFORMS

The khaki isn’t clean

POLICE REFORMS

Error of judgment

Police Reforms

The police should be made an autonomous institution: Meeran Chadha Borwankar

Police Reforms

Bias is inherent in the force: K. Radhakrishnan

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Voters queue at Bhalgamda village, Gujarat, during the first phase of the Assembly election on December 1, 2022. Six Gujarat-registered parties accounted for about 70 per cent of the combined income of the top 15 Registered Unrecognised Political Parties between 2020–21 and 2024–25.

Democracy’s decoys

Soni Mishra
A drone view shows Adi community settlements at risk of submersion if the proposed 11,500 MW Siang Upper Multipurpose Dam Project is completed, in Riew village, Siang district, Arunachal Pradesh, on August 1, 2025.

People power vs hydropower

Vedaant Lakhera
A protest against SIR deletions in Hyderabad on October 25.

The Muslim ‘other’

The Narendra Modi regime’s perceived efforts, through the SIR process, to disenfranchise Muslims are part of an old ideological construct that sees the Muslim “other” as a foreigner. That is why it will never retreat on the issue.
Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay
This aerial photograph taken on March 28, 2026, shows a watchtower surrounded by a dense tree cover at the Campbell Bay National Park in Great Nicobar Island. On a remote island in the Andaman Sea, bulldozers are tearing into pristine forests home to one of Earth's most isolated people—part of India's ambition for a $9 billion megaport, airport and city.

Giant forest trees threatened by Great Nicobar mega project

T. Ramachandran
Jogen Chowdhury in Kochi in 2013.

Jogen Chowdhury (1939-2026): Artist of resistance

Roobina Karode

Photo Essay

Photo Essay

Photo Essay

Stories in stone

A lavishly designed book on the Ellora Caves helps us reappreciate their otherworldly beauty.
Soumitra Das

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Policemen in Kochi lathicharge Youth Congress and KSU supporters during a protest march demanding action against a police officer who allegedly misbehaved with a KSU woman worker, in February 2023.
POLICE REFORMS

The khaki isn’t clean

Policing must be reimagined as a public service rooted in the community rather than as a tool for political control alone. This requires building an institutional culture that is grounded in human dignity and due process.
Naveed Mehmood Ahmad
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Passively watching officers signal an erosion of the state's traditional monopoly on legitimate force.
Police Reforms

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Vaishna Roy
Police Reforms

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Vasanth Srinivasan
Police Reforms

The police should be made an autonomous institution: Meeran Chadha Borwankar

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