The unravelling of India

“Our actual enemy is not any force exterior to ourselves, but our own crying weaknesses, our cowardice, our selfishness, our hypocrisy, our purblind sentimentalism” Sri Aurobindo Introduction Countries and empires More...

Manipur: History, politics and faultlines

Manipur is one of the Seven Sister states of India. The Seven Sisters, of the North-eastern states as they are collectively called, are a miniature India, with ethnic, religious and linguistic diversity, with faultlines More...

The calamity that is Mamata Banerjee

The unusual indulgence shown by many observers and ordinary voters towards Mamata Banerjee was really a product of hostility towards the shockingly dismal fate Indian communism had inflicted on West Bengal. Most More...