The Wire

Casting Light on an American Shadow His is a story I have been waiting to tell. It begins with my spotting a thin book with a yellow cover tucked between grey and brown coloured tomes in my father’s bookshelf. @Barugaru1✍️ thewire.in/history/castin…

The 'Nehru vs. Patel' trope is a tool of division, used by those who seek to rewrite the past because they cannot match the inclusive vision of the men who actually built the future. P.A. Krishnan✍️ thewire.in/history/the-fa…

The Fabricated Feud: Deconstructing the Myth of the 'Stolen' Premiership P.A. Krishnan✍️ thewire.in/history/the-fa…

Growing majoritarian and authoritarian tendencies, alongside the erosion of strategic autonomy, the principle that enabled India to navigate great-power rivalries while preserving independence, signal a deeper domestic and geopolitical shift. Zoya Hasan✍️ thewire.in/diplomacy/from…

We the People vs the Election Commission of India We Indians are often reminded of how ours is the “largest” democracy in the world; what we now need rather despairingly to know is that we are also the fairest. Badri Raina✍️ thewire.in/government/we-…

The Ganga’s Warning From Uttarakhand A recent CAG audit on pollution in the upper Ganga basin reveals a deeper problem: river rejuvenation cannot succeed without fixing the sanitation and governance systems of the towns along its banks. Sanjeev Jha✍️ thewire.in/environment/th…

Who Owns the Ganga? A River of Many Faiths, Not One @RakhshandaJalil✍️ thewire.in/culture/who-ow…

‘Dhurandhar: The Revenge’ is a Masterstroke in Pandering to a Nation that Wants to be Misled The film is a PR job for Narendra Modi including hailing demonetisation as a ‘masterstroke’. @LunkyFallow✍️ thewire.in/film/dhurandha…

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Who Now Says India Must Choose Between Protest and the Rule of Law? Once a beneficiary of mass protest, the Modi government now treats dissent as a threat to national security. The about-turn could hardly be more stark. Mathew John✍️ thewire.in/politics/who-n…

The Reality of Nari Shakti in the Indian Armed Forces The defence ministry must pay close attention to the stark dissimilarities that exist between women and men soldiers that make them different from each other. Prerna Dhoop, Vandana Dhoop✍️ thewire.in/security/the-r…

When the Hero Becomes the Leader: The New Politics of Fandom in Tamil Nadu John J. Kennedy✍️ thewire.in/politics/when-…

A total of 842 complaints, including 130 complaints from Uttar Pradesh, were received from states and Union Territories regarding non-payment of wages, denial of safety equipment and caste-based discrimination, the data showed. thewire.in/caste/622-sani…

622 Sanitation Workers Have Died Since 2017, Govt Tells Lok Sabha; 52 Families Never Got Compensated thewire.in/caste/622-sani…

Why Donald Trump Is Losing the War At Home Launched without public consent, Trump's Iran was faces legitimacy concerns from the outset. David Smith✍️ thewire.in/world/why-dona…

Rajasthan’s Leader of the Opposition Tika Ram Jully, who was at the public hearing, alleged that this rationalisation of the reserve’s boundaries is a “conspiracy” and a “big scam”. @aathiperinchery✍️ thewire.in/environment/up…

Uproar as Authorities Mum on Whether Redrawing Critical Tiger Habitat in Sariska Will Reopen Old Mines @aathiperinchery✍️ thewire.in/environment/up…

US Body Seeks Sanctions On RSS, RAW USCIRF has recommended sanctions on RAW and RSS, again flagging India as a “Country of Particular Concern.” Govt rejects report as biased; Congress cites it to target RSS, intensifying the political row. | @Khan_Noorail

The significance of this contest lay not only in who secured the fourth Rajya Sabha seat. It also lay in what the episode revealed about the condition of party democracy in Odisha. Dhiren Swain, @krvtweets✍️ thewire.in/news/inside-th…

Inside the BJD-Congress Rajya Sabha Experiment: A Test of Party Democracy in Odisha Dhiren Swain, @krvtweets✍️ thewire.in/news/inside-th…