A collection of 12 posts
The contrasting lives and ambitions of two major figures in the fight for Indian Independence: General Kodandera Subayya Thimayya (“Timmy”) and Subhas Chandras Bose.
Pakistan is failing to control the terrorist groups that are headquartered within its borders and pose a serious threat to both India and the West.
The Zoroastrians of India are a tiny and rapidly shrinking group. Yet they exclude women who marry out and their offspring from their community.
Jonathan Kay speaks to fellow podcast host Kushal Mehra about the ‘eerie similarities’ between censorship campaigns in India and Canada.
Indian philosophical traditions such as Nāstika and Nirīśvaravāda offer the West’s angry ‘neo-atheists’ a more nuanced model for channelling their religious disbelief.
A new radio series about the 1943 Bengal famine favours culture-war polemic over rigorous scholarship.
Hindu nationalism is nostalgic for a golden age that never existed, before the invasions of first the Muslims and then the British.
The Indian government’s tendency to crack down on speech of which it disapproves dates from the founding of the republic.
For a quarter century, activists such as Vandana Shiva have opposed GM crops that can help feed the world. Now, more than ever, it’s time to reject their Luddite demands
The Cārvākas considered only matter—that which could be sensed—to be real.
Even if the referendum turns out to be a complete failure, though, the Khalistanis seem unlikely to fade away.
The deadly attacks on journalists, who now work within a tightening entanglement of political bosses and business behemoths, signifies the rise of India’s elected despots.