Anees Salim dropped out of school at the age of 16 to become a writer. Soon after leaving school, he left home to see people ...

I cited the tears, never the spit,” the Palestinian writer Mohammed El-Kurd writes in Perfect Victims: And the Politics of Appeal, adding: “You need to be polite in your suffering, should you be ...

BJP eyes a breakthrough in Puducherry with alliances, resources, and nominated MLAs shaping the electoral battle.

For the 2016 Assembly election in Assam, the eminent political scientist Abu Nasar Saied Ahmed had led an elaborate study of ...

The last detail probably owes its existence to my reading of Johanna Spyri’s Heidi at a young age. For a long ...

There is no first-mover advantage for any political party in Kerala’s Assembly election because the percentage of floating votes is very small. Majorities are won or lost on thin margins. But this ...

Both the DMK and the AIADMK have built formidable grassroots infrastructure and loyal vote banks over decades, but their legacy leadership is increasingly tied to an aging electorate.

The Iran war is redrawing West Asia’s geopolitical map—escalating conflict across the Gulf, disrupting oil supply chains, and ...

The revision of electoral rolls has removed millions of names and placed many more under scrutiny, turning the voter list ...

A psephologist explains why electoral maths, Muslim voting patterns, welfare schemes, and fragmented Hindu identities ...

The Rahuri byelection reveals how a symbol of the freedom movement is being recast amid RSS-led mobilisation, cooperative-era decline, and intensifying communal polarisation in rural Maharashtra.

An experimental choice for a Booker winner—gripping in parts, but does its refusal to explain weaken its impact? Read the full review.