Sreenivasan Jain

Talk of azadi will remain hollow given how deeply the Valley is locked into a cycle of dependence

With Holey Artisan Bakery, Bangladesh's creaky edifice of denialism has come undone

... "Forget Panama Papers - how in just four weeks political parties routed Rs 1,000 crore of illicit wealth through criminal networks to bribe voters"

A recent Salem event was perhaps the first time many in the crowd were seeing Jayalalithaa in person in the past five years. A brief stint in jail had made her more reclusive. But none of that seemed

It's not necessarily intolerance that has been rising. It's something else

The lens with which we report India's farm crisis has to change

The government does not seem to have sufficient grounds to invoke the CBI against Teesta Setalvad

Elsewhere in India, there may be gestures to shed the trappings of the VIP culture. But not in Chennai. The currents of change have barely disturbed the hothouse of Dravidian political culture

Events after a farmer's suicide at an AAP rally encapsulate the state of public discourse on Indian agriculture

The debate over the land ordinance is best located in facts, not hyperbole

A lesson for the Swachh Bharat Mission from a small town in Bihar

The scale and nature of Modi's election victory mean the higher tiers of the Sangh Parivar feel no need for restraint

The inertia of the last major Congress state reflects the malaise that has gripped the party

The conversation no political party wants to have

India's proposed toilet revolution is all set to repeat mistakes of the past

Zafar Sareshwala, Narendra Modi's staunchest muslim supporter, believes people could abandon the BJP if the party goes back to regressive and polarising issues

The new regime seems determined to recycle the mythologies over the shortage of coal and power

Conversations at a rally in eastern Uttar Pradesh show how Narendra Modi is attempting to tilt this heartland in favour of the BJP

How months of stalling, reversals and obfuscatory answers may have led to Subrata Roy's imprisonment

Where do the Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party get their publicity and advertising monies from? The current norm of self-declaration of finances by political parties is not providing answers