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Pankaj Mishra writes: In 2005, when Narendra Modi was the chief minister of the wealthy Indian state of Gujarat, local police murdered a criminal called Sheikh Sohrabuddin in cold blood. At an election rally in 2007 for the ruling Hindu nationalist...

The war that was brewing on the internet since 2009 seems to have been unleashed on the country at large, and it is increasingly looking like the rotten framework of India is powerless to withstand it. A defeated, demoralized Congress cowers from the...

[Upon revoking the bail and medical release for yet-untried political prisoner Professor GN Saibaba, Bombay High Court Justice Arum Choudari, according to The Hindu newspaper, “issued a notice to writer Arundhati Roy on an intervention plea filed by...

ESSAY Professor, P.O.W. So afraid is the government of this paralysed wheelchair-bound academic that the Maharashtra police had to abduct him for arrest ARUNDHATI ROY May 9, 2015, marks one year since Dr G.N. Saibaba, lecturer of English at Ramlal...

IN all the noise of the Burmese elections over the weekend, another crucial vote being held in the Indian state of Bihar went largely unnoticed. Not only did the elections in Bihar engage twice as many people (100 million to Burma’s 53 million) but...