The remarkable and resounding victory of the Grand Alliance in the recent assembly elections in Bihar may well mark a turning point in Indian politics, after such a comprehensive rejection by the state’s electorate of the politics of hate and…
The closest friend I had in my childhood was a boy who came from a dalit family. He lived in a little bustee near our house in the small mofussil town in Odisha where I spent my early years. He…
At first sight the “Make in India” campaign appears innocuous, a pipe-dream perhaps but a rather harmless one. If the world’s big companies come to “make” things in India for selling all over the world, which is the thrust of…
