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COUNTER CULTURE
The Ambani wedding: A spectacle of excess in an age of inequality
The festivity linked to the wedding was cinema and we have all just been an audience to the greatest circus trick: a disappearing moral compass.
Prathyush Parasuraman
Kitchen Katha
Vishnu protects the onion
The onion whets the appetite, warms the heart, heals the sick, and transforms the clumsiest cook into chef supreme.
Kalpish Ratna
LEGAL ACUMEN
Kejriwal case: Supreme Court bail order shakes ED’s ground but leaves Delhi CM hanging
AAP leader gets interim bail, but court punts on core issues of arrest necessity and agency discretion to larger bench.
V. Venkatesan
EUROPESIDE—NOTES FROM A SMALL CONTINENT
A grim result for Le Pen—and for Macron, too
The French Left’s magnificent victory has beaten back the Far Right (for now) while thrusting Macron into a major constitutional crisis.
Susan Ram
COUNTER CULTURE
LSD 2: Looking sin in the eye
Dibakar Banerjee’s film Love, Sex aur Dhokha 2 invokes the horror of being online, and being present in the crosscurrents of our attention economy.
Prathyush Parasuraman
Economic Perspectives
India’s foreign reserve buildup is a double-edged sword
Growing capital inflows mask underlying economic vulnerabilities.
C.P. Chandrasekhar
From the sidelines
Hindi, Hindu, Hindustan
The most important challenge for the BJP and RSS after the Lok Sabha election is their social project coming undone.
Saba Naqvi
More stories from Columns
The slow, steady march of Hindutva in South India
From Kerala to Telangana, the RSS plays the long game. As it challenges the notion of a secular South, local parties struggle to respond effectively.
Greeshma Kuthar
Supreme Court sends mixed signals on bail in UAPA cases
Some benches grant relief citing prolonged detention and trial delays, while others maintain a stringent approach, leaving accused in limbo.
V. Venkatesan
UK’s Labour landslide: Another wake-up call for Modi and BJP
Conservative Party’s defeat proves long-term rule does not guarantee political safety; economic mismanagement and ignoring real issues can be costly.
Mitali Mukherjee
New criminal laws push India toward a regressive past
Legal experts warn of eroded civil liberties as BNS, BNSS, BSA replace longstanding codes, altering FIR procedures and expanding police discretion.
V. Venkatesan
Ways of unseeing: The art of overanalysing art
A kind of criticism dwells in the distance created between art and meaning. Why is the obvious so suspect? Why is the surface not nourishing enough?
Prathyush Parasuraman
Will the setback to Hindutva politics force Modi 3.0 to rethink economic policies?
Even though pressure mounts on the new government to address economic concerns, entrenched political objectives may hinder substantial policy shifts.
C.P. Chandrasekhar
Public Examinations Act 2024: Too late, too little
Passed in February but notified in June, it lacks rules for implementation and might not be effective in checking malpractices like the NEET-UG leaks.
V. Venkatesan
A vote for constitutional values
Modi government’s actions belittling constitutional values opened up space for opposition parties to revive the struggle to protect the Constitution.
Venkatanarayanan S.
The RSS sends a message
Sangh Parivar’s comments on party strategy and leadership qualities hint at a change in power balance within the BJP and in its equation with the RSS.
Saba Naqvi
The heat will kill the economy. But it will kill us first
India’s heatwave is a wake-up call for climate action and economic resilience. But what’s the government actually doing about it?
Mitali Mukherjee
Delhi LG’s sanction for Arundhati Roy’s prosecution under UAPA is legally vulnerable
The sanction appears to have been granted without proper application of mind, as the police investigation itself is nowhere near completion.
V. Venkatesan
European Parliament election: The far right advances, the ‘centre’ accommodates
If the far right were to form a single group, it would constitute the second-largest bloc in the European Parliament.
Susan Ram
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