Politics has always involved some degree of performance. Politicians choose their words carefully, manage their public image and learn how to appear confident even when things are...
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We have a habit of freezing historical giants in amber. We turn them into statues, print their faces on currency, and speak of them in reverent, static tones. But when history...
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India observed Hindi Diwas on September 14, marking 77 years since the Constituent Assembly adopted Hindi in the Devanagari script as the Official Language of the Union in...
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Hate speech rarely begins with violence. It often begins with words. A post is shared, a video goes viral, a community is described as a threat, and a familiar prejudice is...
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Historian Ramachandra Guha has spent years studying Mahatma Gandhi, producing two major biographies that together run to nearly 1,800 pages. Gandhi Before India, published in...
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