Right-wing authoritarian populism is a global feature. But what is distinct to India and a few other places is the element of fear. Fear can be a potent political tool as it not only divides and under...

Fear has driven out Rajesh Kumar, 33, and his wife Rinju Devi, 28, from their life of security in distant Mehsana in Gujarat and plunged them and their child into a cesspool of uncertainty.The couple,...

Fear is an irrational thing, it must yield to reason.”This is what the Logician, a character in Eugene Ionesco’s Rhinoceros, a play scripted in 1959, had reasoned.On this day — World Theatre Day...

Chanda Chatterjee has her husband, a cancer patient, to look after. The last thing she needs in her life is hostility towards her family in a neighbourhood that has been their home for five decades.Th...

Rajat Gupta, the India-born former managing director of McKinsey, believes that not testifying at his high-profile insider-trading trial was a “bad call” and regrets not taking the stand in his de...