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Tommy Robinson Is Not the Problem. He Is the Reckoning.
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Tommy Robinson Is Not the Problem. He Is the Reckoning.

The parties Europe once called fringe are no longer fringe. Europe is shifting to the right, as voters who feel their leaders stopped listening increasingly make their frustration clear at the ballot box
Five Hours of Freedom

Five Hours of Freedom

Chinmoy Krishna Das was given five hours outside prison to perform his mother’s last rites. By then, she was already gone. His story has become a haunting symbol of what Bangladesh’s Hindu minority is being forced to endure.
How India Helped Shape an American Feminist Icon

How India Helped Shape an American Feminist Icon

Gloria Steinem, the journalist and activist who became one of the most influential figures in the American women’s movement, has died at 92. Her decades of work transformed debates over equality, reproductive rights and women’s political power.
Twenty-Five Years After 9/11, Al-Qaeda Is Still Here

Twenty-Five Years After 9/11, Al-Qaeda Is Still Here

Twenty-five years after 9/11, bin Laden is dead and al-Qaeda’s old command structure has been dismantled. The organisation adapted, spreading through affiliates from Somalia and the Sahel to Yemen Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Why India Needs a Social Media Platform of Its Own

Why India Needs a Social Media Platform of Its Own

From Guatemala’s CIA-run radio broadcasts to the Twitter Files and political upheavals across India’s neighbourhood, this is a story about information, influence, and a question India may soon have to answer: who controls the platforms on which a nation understands itself?
Daood Gilani Aka David Headley

Daood Gilani Aka David Headley

David Headley helped map the targets of the 26/11 Mumbai attacks while already known to U.S. authorities. Years later, the unanswered question remains: how was he allowed to operate for so long, and why has he never faced an Indian court?
The Women of Chittor Did Not Ask for Your Permission

The Women of Chittor Did Not Ask for Your Permission

We are endlessly comfortable with our women as victims, and uneasy the moment they become warriors. A reflection on Swara Bhaskar, the jauhar of Padmaavat, and the courage we keep mistaking for a wound.
Nepal Can't Have It Both Ways on Climate Blame

Nepal Can't Have It Both Ways on Climate Blame

Nepal wants climate compensation from the very economies whose industrial products it depends on. Can it blame the fire while still warming itself by it?
India demands tariff edge over Vietnam, China before finalizing US trade deal

India demands tariff edge over Vietnam, China before finalizing US trade deal

India puts US trade deal on hold until Washington grants tariff terms exceeding those for Vietnam and China, Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal says.