Somdeep Sen

Multi­na­tion­al con­sul­tan­cies claim to of­fer ex­per­tise, but of­ten it’s a con­fi­dence trick. The vic­tim? Tax­pay­ers.

Ur­ban projects are treat­ed as po­lit­i­cal sym­bols, rather than ve­hi­cles to makes the lives of cit­i­zens bet­ter.

Pro­gres­sive thought and schol­ar­ship are un­der as­sault on cam­pus­es as the idea of the uni­ver­si­ty is hol­lowed out.

The re­cent res­ig­na­tion of an­chor and Modi crit­ic Rav­ish Ku­mar un­der­lines how mo­nop­o­li­sa­tion is threat­en­ing In­di­an me­dia.

It’s sim­ple: sup­port for Is­rael, the right­ward po­lit­i­cal shift in the West, and the colo­nial roots of the glob­al or­der.

Tues­day’s elec­tions will be my first as a cit­i­zen. I’m hope­ful. I’m also very anx­ious.

The re­cent UK vi­o­lence should serve as a wake-up call. Hin­du na­tion­al­ism is no longer a wor­ry just in In­dia.

The very DNA of the Is­rael-EU re­la­tion­ship is premised on the be­lief that Pales­tin­ian rights don’t re­al­ly mat­ter.

On its mile­stone birth­day, the coun­try is fal­ter­ing on sev­er­al fronts.

There are few bar­ri­ers left to pre­vent the coun­try’s slide into au­thor­i­tar­i­an­ism.