Nearly a century after Premchand's essays on Hindu society, this article explores how debates on reform have given way to majoritarian assertion and communal polarisation.

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Vijay’s Cabinet gives Dalits unprecedented representation, signalling a new phase in Tamil Nadu’s social justice politics.

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A young workforce trapped between electoral short-termism and structural joblessness exposes a deeper failure of state ...

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So also we come to India to play on our flutes our age-old songs, so that, hearing them, our Indian cousins may recognise us ...

For the cameras, at least, the change of guard unfolded in an atmosphere of bonhomie, with Siddaramaiah hugging his anointed successor, D.K. Shivakumar, and the latter bending to touch his feet and ...