Constructive use of anthropology might have spared India decades of ethnic conflict in the Northeast as well as the siege mentality that is said to grip Indian Muslims
SUNANDA K. DATTA-RAYExistential threats that can haunt the earth in the near future are human-made — unintended consequences of our intense desire for material consumption and comfort
ANUP SINHAIn its latest press freedom index, Reporters Without Borders ranked China 179th out of 180 countries and described it as ‘world’s biggest jailer of journalists’, with 100 currently behind bars
NEHA SAHAYIn its own way, political analysis often resembles astrology. There are a multitude of events and trends on which the analysis begins but this, in turn, leads to a series of imponderables
SWAPAN DASGUPTAThe BJP’s history project, dependent on rhetorical and physical force, needs patron figures. The Ram Mandir obviously has Ram, Mr Pramod Sawant’s temple-building has Shivaji
THE EDITORIAL BOARDAnushka Sharma, Kiara Advani and Malaika Arora resorted to such marketing gimmicks in the past