The Bolsonaro-Modi Affair: Defining Development this Republic Day
Jair Bolsonaro, as you must have read, is India’s guest for the Republic Day parade, and the third Brazilian President to be invited. Given...
Viva la Educación: Educating for Democracy
Authored by Upasna Sachdeva
As student protests boil over the country, I am reminded of the Chinese curse, “May you live in interesting times.” For...
Archiving Resistance: The Women Leading the Anti-CAA-NRC Protests
Featured image captured at the Mandi House protests on 20th December, 2019.
The Women Leading the Anti-CAA-NRC Protests
Featured image taken at the Shaheen Bagh protests in January 2020.
Seen together with the NRC, NPR, and the political majoritarianism spreading across the country,...
Clicking, Waiting, Praying: The making of the techno-scientific professional priest
This article is the second in a series by Krishna Akhil on the efforts of companies to enable Hindu devotees to have access to...
Of Monsters and Men: JNU v/s the Anti-national State
Written by Sourya Reddy
The day is like what’ve come to expect of any other in Delhi: filled with unease and tension over where the...
Why The Superhero vs Scorsese Episode Is Actually About Co-Existence in Cinema
“But that’s not cinema.”
When Martin Scorsese uttered these four words, he probably didn’t know he was entering the volatile ring of millennial outrage, a...
Clicking, Waiting, Praying: The Mantras of Hindu Tech Startups
Written by Krishna Akhil
“Software is eating the world” is the tagline of the prominent Silicon Valley investment firm Andreesen Horowitz. Trite and techno-deterministic as...
The CAA+NRC Protests: Who is the New Opposition in India?
Authored by Aarathi Ganesan
Protests are erupting all over the country, some peaceful, some violent. Some feature students, others citizens, and some, according to the...
A Reprehensible Republic: Republic TV’s Hollow Coverage of the Abrogation of Article 370
In any healthy democracy, the mainstream media is entrusted with the role of a watchdog, expected to always hold power to account. Unfortunately, much...
