My take on the heartless, merciless trolling on #RahulGandhi's "long silence" on his father's violent death that I asked him about here at Cambridge....

From populism to white privilege — a round-up of books tackling urgent questions of our time

Narendra Modi’s ruling party has captured national politics for the foreseeable future

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India🇮🇳 at 75: My interaction with Dr. Shruti Kapila at the University of CambridgeHad an engrossing conversation with Dr. Shruti Kapila at the University ...

By ’90s, Nehru bashing was all the rage in Left-dominated academics. I was taught by teachers who dismissed Nehru’s urbanity, rationalism and secularism as ‘un-Indian’.

The distinguished ancient historian Moses Finley is reported to have planned at the end of his life to re-read the writings of Max Weber, half a century after he first encountered his corpus. This...

A recent interview with Rahul Gandhi at the University of Cambridge sent ripples across India, with right wing groups slamming Rahul for defaming India...

This week’s reading list includes a book on the people, culture and politics of Haryana and its evolution from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century, one that encapsulates the musical universe...

If Modi is the outsized factor in the 2024 elections, then only nationalism outpaces him as the dominant mood. INDIA’s challenge is to create an alternative nationalism.

An Economist Best Book of the YearA Financial Times Best Book of the YearA major historian tells the dramatic and untold story of the shadowy networks of revolutionaries across Asia who laid the...

Isabel Wilkerson s book Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents uses anecdotes and allegory to advance her thesis, which however does not stand on a strong structural foundation.

“This terrible and occasionally illegible prose never quite overcomes the reader’s trust in Faulkner’s profound creative power.”

If India still must guarantee food rations to millions of its citizens, then the besieged liberals and povertarians may after all, have a case. BJP’s manifesto is a reality check on the very passions...

Neither the State nor any people have taken responsibility for the mass killings during Partition. That's why India is condemned to repeat that history.

Elkins is aware of the hypocrisy inherent in the liberal justification of the British Empire in India. However, 'Legacy of Violence' refuses to recognise that these arguments have been worked out by...

An updated version of this piece appears in the 21 July issue of the paper.Fewer ministers than ever care about their...

In “Liberalism Against Itself,” Samuel Moyn stresses the need to resuscitate an earlier and more rousing wave of thinkers.

Thinking with Gandhi — even attitudes we find indefensible — allows us to conceptualise an anti-racism that begins from anti-speciesism. This anti-racism can help us move towards an equality based on...

Modern China gave the world capitalism without democracy. Now India looks set to give the world a one-party state in a multi-party polity.

When Punjabis become unhappy with their situation, they will vote out their government. They won’t go to some Trudeau or Gurpatwant Singh Pannun to seek help for a regime change.

Shruti Kapila teaches Indian history and political thought at the University of Cambridge and is a trainee psychoanalyst.

Revue anglophone promouvant l'étude des rapports entre société, culture et politique en Asie du Sud, à partir d'enquêtes de terrain et dans une perspective comparative

During the famines and plague under the British, an equaliser bacteria spelled the end of the empire. A virus is now dismantling national obedience to Modi.

As India, under Hindutva, pursues the ‘unfinished agenda’ of Partition 75 years on, Shruti Kapila’s book helps readers make sense of the deep-rooted violence in India’s polity

Tracing the history of sedition from Tilak to Modi reveals not just the colonial roots of the law but also a much graver problem confronting India today: that of the violent redefinition of the...

Though fundamentally opposed, Savarkar and Nehru’s works had the markings of a utopia, however positive or negative.

From newspapers to lit fests, the space for the Right-wing intellectual is growing by the day, a far cry from the 1990s, when this school of thought was almost anathema in such circles.  

Hindus and Muslims have been brothers who could be violently estranged, but never properly foreign

Democracies are restoring the dull but democratic powers of rules and institutions by dousing the passions that led to the rise of strongman leaders. India isn't there yet.

A raging controversy has erupted over Rajnath Singh's remarks on Savarkar and Gandhi. The Union Minister said it was on Gandhi's counsel that Savarkar filed ...

The Inner Life of Globalisation with Pankaj Mishra Hosted By Global Humanities Initiative, SAH at Cambridge University. Event starts on Monday, 9 May 2022 and happening at Corpus Christi College,...

Easy to mock Rahul Gandhi at Cambridge, but he's right in remaking Congress as party of protest not power.

Ming Kit Wong discusses Shruti Kapila's research on fraternity and 'the other' in Indian political thought.

Debates on religion, its legal boundaries and social policing, in short, are debates on women in India. Calling this ‘patriarchy’ does not explain it away.

A conversation with historian Helen Thompson about the changes in energy consumption and monetary policy that set the table for today’s geopolitical instability.

India's woman question tests party imagination. Congress's focus on Nirbhaya, Unnao rape victim, and BJP's Uniform Civil Code show how.

In the essays my students write, I have begun to notice a common pattern. They are structured almost like Aesop’s fables. A moral seems necessary […]

Shruti Kapila speaks to us on her book ‘Violent Fraternity: Indian Political Thought in the Global Age’ 

About the Conference The Government of Karnataka will host a two-day international conference titled ‘Constitution and National Unity’ on February 24th and 25th, 2024, in Bengaluru, India to commem...