Analysis

Analysis

No, Neha didn’t use a guerrilla tactic; romanticising the term hurts dissent

Bharathy Singaravel

CEC Gyanesh Kumar’s legal immunity makes him the most powerful constitutional authority

Apple, Google remove Bitchat in India on govt order: Those determined to bypass it will, the ordinary user gets locked out

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Who controls your right to vote? Four questions the ECI must answer

From granite pioneer to POCSO accused: The unravelling of mining baron R Veeramani

Indulekha Aravind

The men building AI want us to fear it. We should – but not for the reasons they give

Samrat Choudhury Manoj Sharma

A global guide to birthdays that nearly need a ministry of their own

Saharanpur mosque, Satya Niketan PG are monuments to the same politics of violence and neglect

In BRICS, India’s quiet triumph in how it passed the test of cohesion

Confused by the debate over India’s 7.8% GDP growth? Here’s a simple explanation

‘YouTuber’, ‘influencer’, ‘goon activist’: How mainstream media sanitised Swatantra Bhardwaj

Amarabati Bhattacharyya

BJP’s violent meme war: The attacks on opponents and dissenters as ‘Dimagi Naxals’

India is growing at 7.8%. Should you believe it?

‘School Thik Karo’: Lakhs of schools, crores in public money, but do they meet the basic tests?

Gurugram is actually drowning in its own real estate boom

Hridayesh Joshi

Sumit Sarkar’s unfinished argument with history

Anti-reservation rhetoric is rising, management quota stays invisible

Beyond millennial cynics and hopefuls, the grand Gen Z debut

Ravikant Kisana

Can India scrap NEET without reviving capitation fee? Yes, here’s how

Who controls your right to vote? Four questions the ECI must answer

From granite pioneer to POCSO accused: The unravelling of mining baron R Veeramani

Indulekha Aravind

The men building AI want us to fear it. We should – but not for the reasons they give

Samrat Choudhury Manoj Sharma

A global guide to birthdays that nearly need a ministry of their own

Saharanpur mosque, Satya Niketan PG are monuments to the same politics of violence and neglect

In BRICS, India’s quiet triumph in how it passed the test of cohesion

Confused by the debate over India’s 7.8% GDP growth? Here’s a simple explanation

‘YouTuber’, ‘influencer’, ‘goon activist’: How mainstream media sanitised Swatantra Bhardwaj

Amarabati Bhattacharyya

BJP’s violent meme war: The attacks on opponents and dissenters as ‘Dimagi Naxals’

India is growing at 7.8%. Should you believe it?

‘School Thik Karo’: Lakhs of schools, crores in public money, but do they meet the basic tests?

Gurugram is actually drowning in its own real estate boom

Hridayesh Joshi

Sumit Sarkar’s unfinished argument with history

Anti-reservation rhetoric is rising, management quota stays invisible

Beyond millennial cynics and hopefuls, the grand Gen Z debut

Ravikant Kisana

Can India scrap NEET without reviving capitation fee? Yes, here’s how