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A tourist rush is swamping Himachal Pradesh – and the environmental cost is heavy
On May 24, Nitesh Thakur left Shimla in his car around noon, hoping to reach his villa…
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Israel and India show how democracies drift towards digital authoritarianism
“Digital authoritarianism” refers to governments using technology for surveillance and…
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A new book looks at how movements for civil liberties have developed in India
“Coming of age in the 1960s and the 1970s, we were witness from a distance to the Naxa…
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Why the Trinamool Congress is collapsing like a house of cards
“The more you torture us in Bengal, the more problems you will face in Delhi,” former …
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How philosopher KC Bhattacharyya appealed for liberation from British ‘cultural subjection’
Any discussion of Indian “culture” per se is strewn with landmines. Let me expand on t…
