Every word Khan chose for his reporting bespoke the fineness and subtlety of his learning, and his deep concern for the preservation of India’s diverse values

Modi’s remark on farmers who died during protests clearly seems to indicate that he conflates his persona with the majesty of the state, in a throwback to Louis XIV

If the desired curtailment of constitutional democracy were to result from the democratic process itself, a populist endorsement would have been achieved for the transformation, and the nomenclature of fascist overthrow neatly averted

Narendra Modi has allocated to himself the world-historical burden of exporting India’s great democratic civilisational values to the floundering globe at large. But rogue functionaries of high status seem hell bent on getting in the way

Dying is not the worst scare, Lack of converse is

Where the Congress leader may have erred is in characterising all those present in the Jaipur audience as Hindus

The prime minister’s alarm at the colour of the Samajwadi Party’s headgear is out of step with the all-encompassing significance of red in the natural, religious, cultural, and political lives of evolved human beings

Is there a place you might know Where the still-loving folks may go To be just fallible, free, forgiving?

A teacher remembers the spotless humanism and unrelenting independence of mind of a former student who stayed clear of the moral indifference of our times

Never forget that politics is the art of the possible, a reality that the farmer’s movement has proved with emphatic assertion