“Undoubtedly Kolkata”, said the artist who has been inspired by Jamini Roy and Gopal Ghosh. “I think Kolkata is a very artistic place. Art is appreciated and you will find a lot of y...

Lost meaning Sir — For those of us who are used to waking up at the crack of dawn on Mahalaya to listen to Birendra Krishna Bhadra’s Mahishasuramardini, it is disconcerting to hear the ch...

One of the diplomatic successes of the Narendra Modi government over the past eight years has been the bonhomie it has cultivated with most of the Middle East, despite the Bharatiya Janata Party&rsquo...

The mounting majoritarianism visible in politics is a characteristic feature of the times we live in. This force, manifest in riots, pogroms and lynching, preserves itself through narrow, intolerant g...

“The impression that I got is that not only is the author very clever, but also very good. He is a good person. I think it’s a very important book considering the times we live in and all ...

Into this deadly cocktail is added the rabble-rousing drug of imagined insult. Remember, Ypsilon’s cry of lost Phoenician glory? “Our Phoenician forefathers were just twenty-two Consonants...

The principal strategy of contemporary majoritarianism is singling out a group, demonizing it as an alien fifth column, and then publicly making an example of it. In earlier columns, I’ve examin...

As an Indian citizen and an artist, I have never been able to support the activities of the BJP. Supporting the party’s politics of polarisation was out of question. I had a spontaneous inner c...

Sir — As India celebrates another year of independence today, it must be asked whether our founding fathers had envisioned the kind of future for the nation’s citizens that the latter are ...

Words evolve, but evolution does not mean full-scale distortion, or an inversion of substance. But such inversion is indispensable to the majoritarian rhetoric with which Indians have grown familiar. ...