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The Wounded Happiness of Salman Rushdie

S Prasannarajan S Prasannarajan

What it takes to be a writer in the time of hate. Rushdie returns to that August morning in 2022 when he almost died under the knife of a man inspired by the late Ayatollah Khomeini’s death decree against the author

Politics | Elections 2024: Dispatch

Hope and Deliverance

Rajeev Deshpande

Local issues and the Modi government’s record animate discussions while Congress’ populist pledges and allegations of political vendetta in arrests of opposition leaders fail to impress voters across north Rajasthan

Essays | Open Essay

Minority Report: How Muslim’s Fare in Modi’s India

Surjit S Bhalla

Muslims in Modi’s India are doing better than Blacks in the US

Politics | Elections 2024: Dispatch

A New Reckoning for Alwar

Rajeev Deshpande

BJP’s Bhupender Yadav is the outsider with an inside chance

Politics | Elections 2024: Dispatch

The Frontline of Democracy

Siddharth Singh

On a visit to the home village of top Maoist commander Hidma in Bastar, Siddharth Singh finds ground domination and a humanitarian outreach are containing Maoist terror

Politics | Elections 2024: Dispatch

The Power of My Vote Bank
Ullekh NP

From the sleepy villages to the bustling towns of western Uttar Pradesh, voters say they will reward the Modi dispensation for its generous schemes and state Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath for strict policing

Columns | Insider

BJP’s Manifesto Surprise
Open

The contrast from the populist promises in the Congress manifesto could not be starker

Politics | Elections 2024: Dispatch

The Saffron Dare
V Shoba

BJP makes an ambitious push in Tamil Nadu, challenging traditional calculations in a state used to bipolar contests between DMK and AIADMK, writes

Politics | Elections 2024: In the Arena

Battle of the Equals

MG Radhakrishnan

Shashi Tharoor seeks a fourth-term from Thiruvananthapuram while his formidable challenger Rajeev Chandrasekhar hopes for a sensational debut

Art & Culture

A Voyager Across Time

Shaikh Ayaz

Travelling with Gulammohammed Sheikh in the ark of memories

Columns | Indian Accents

The Devi Mystique

Bibek Debroy

The roots of greatness in Kurma Purana

Cover Story | Elections 2024

Congress: Is the Party Withering Away?

Ullekh NP

Congress is in organisational disarray with the exit of many senior leaders owing to the inaccessibility of the Gandhis and diminishing electoral prospects

Cover Story | Elections 2024

The Great Disconnect

PR Ramesh

Rahul Gandhi leads a Congress so bereft of ideas that it is banking on a divisive manifesto couched in the language of diversity and inclusion

Columns | Soft Power

Hindutva with a Difference

Makarand R Paranjape

How BJP can cross the cultural and ideological barriers in the south

Politics | Elections 2024: In the Arena

Challenging the Citadel

V Shoba

BJP makes inroads into the strongholds of DMK and AIADMK in the Kongu belt

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