The Shattering of the Muslim Hope in India

A young Muslim reflects on the collapse of constitutional promises and on the everyday fears and dilemmas faced by the minorities.▶02-Mar-2022
Salik Ahmad

March 4, 2022

On the loss of Muslim hope; faultlines in India's elections; air pollution, and more

TIF Talkies: Srinivas Kodali discusses state surveillance and facial recognition technology

▶04-Mar-2022
The India Forum
Review

Making the State Accountable

A compelling story about citizen-led movements, government accountability, village politics, and decentralisation in Bihar.
▶03-Mar-2022
Rohit Chandra

The Shattering of the Muslim Hope in India

A young Muslim reflects on the collapse of constitutional promises and on the everyday fears and dilemmas faced by the minorities.
▶02-Mar-2022
Salik Ahmad

Cuba’s Vaccine Miracle

In spite of a crippling US blockade, Cuba, with its strong biotech industry and a commitment to public health, has developed as many as five vaccines against Covid-19, achieved the highest…
▶28-Feb-2022
S. Anantha Krishnan, Karina Sanchez

Emerging Challenges for Civil Society Organisations

"The state’s withdrawal from partnerships with CSOs and its move towards market-based institutions and high net-worth individuals has privatised its welfare and redistribution functions. This…
▶23-Feb-2022
M. S. Sriram

India's 'Festival of Democracy' Needs Healing

The many processes that go into the conduct of elections in India have begun to be undermined, in the process weakening the functioning of democracy itself. The Election Commission of India needs to…
▶23-Feb-2022
Jagdeep S. Chhokar
Review

The ‘Model’ of Social and Economic Change in Tamil Nadu

‘The central idea is that the anti-Brahmin movement — which developed into the Self-Respect Movement — became the site for the construction of an inclusive Dravidian identity that could build a “…
▶21-Feb-2022
Satish Deshpande

In Good Conscience

Instead of seeing the different worlds in India as invaluable resources from which we can learn and which we can draw on to build a better nation, our state sows suspicion among us about each other.
▶17-Feb-2022
Peter Ronald deSouza

Hindutva's Freelancers

Mimetic and aspirational groups, only loosely connected to the BJP and the RSS, are propelling the growth of Hindutva in north India. They draw impunity from communalised forms of caste assertion and…
▶16-Feb-2022
Vishal Singh Deo, Akram Akhtar Choudhary
Review

The Shaky Future of Citizenship

"In India, a birth-based model of citizenship is being cast off in favour of an ethnic and singular model. The civic all-encompassing idea of the nation and citizenship is giving way to a Hindu…
▶15-Feb-2022
Manjari Katju