India's Muslims
Barbara Crossette : Islam & Muslims
The deep grievances of marginalized Indian Muslims are a source of major societal rifts, exacerbated by the anti-Muslim propaganda of Hindu fundamentalists.
2008
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After Mumbai
The Editors : US Foreign Policy
There is no military solution to the crisis in South Asia. It falls to Barack Obama to create a new path out of the deepening Afghan-Pakistan crisis.
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Shibboleth!
Alexander Cockburn : US Foreign Policy
Why is it so hard for lawmakers, media and moguls to take moral responsibility?
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Mumbai's 9/11 Meme
Lakshmi Chaudhry : Terrorism
We have much to fear from easy evocations of 9/11, but in India, it is a call to the world to recognize their loss.
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Obama's Afghan Dilemma
Robert Dreyfuss : Afghanistan
Obama calls Afghanistan "the right war." But sending more US troops into the quagmire will only make the crisis worse.
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India's Persecuted Christians
Barbara Crossette : Religion
Members of India's poorest classes who converted to Christianity to escape the caste system now find themselves the targets of brutal persecution by Hindu nationalists.
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New Era for Pakistan--and Kashmir?
Barbara Crossette : Pakistan
The resignation of Pervez Musharraf and a looming election in India offer hope that with the right leadership, the sixty-year faceoff over Kashmir might finally be resolved.
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India: What Ails the Giant?
Jayati Vora
The west routinely celebrates the Indian economy as a stirring giant, but the worsening plight of the rural poor tells a different story: A conversation with Prabhat Patnaik.
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Gandhi's Teachings Are Alive
Rev. Jesse L. Jackson : Religion
Mohandas K. Gandhi, killed sixty years ago, was a moment in the conscience of mankind. But the flame of hope his life inspired shapes our lives still.
2007
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The View From Jantar Mantar
The contradictions of parliamentary democracy in India have been a constant source of struggle and rich debate.
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A War in the Heart of India
Ramachandra Guha : Human Rights
Maoists say they're fighting for the invisible tribal peoples of India. Are they terrorists, or the product of a corrupt and unjust system?
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Inevitable Revolutions
In William Dalrymple's The Last Mughal, the 1857 Uprising against British rule in India is recast as a cross-border friendship gone sour.
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The Spoils of Indian Democracy
Two new books show how perceptions of India have been shaped and distorted by rhapsodic portrayals of its business elite.
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Bombay Confidential
Vikram Chandra's epic crime novel Sacred Games is an infernal history of India in the last decade.
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The Illogic of Empire
Iraq is America's colonial war. Arguments for maintaining colonial rule in India are almost identical to the justifications offered for the continuing presence of US troops in Iraq and escalation of the war.
2006
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Mumbai's Casualties
The grisly commuter train bombings in Mumbai on July 11 both endangered the India/Pakistan peace process and underscored its fragility.
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Mumbai's Other Casualty
The fragile peace process between India and Pakistan fell apart after last week's grisly commuter train bombings.
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The Red Flag, From Berlin to West Bengal
The left may be a dusty relic in Germany, but in the Indian state of Kerala, it has made formidable gains on a platform of reform and smart economic policies.
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Ending Nonproliferation
Michael T. Klare : Nuclear Arms & Proliferation
President Bush's dangerous deal to deliver nuclear technology to India is a significant breach of the nonproliferation treaty and will make nuclear war more likely.
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Bush in India: Just Not Welcome
Arundhati Roy : George W. Bush
Opposition to President Bush's visit to India was so intense that the only public space deemed acceptable for him to deliver a speech is a crumbling old fort that also houses the Delhi zoo.
2005
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Mystic River
Tariq Ali : Cultural Criticism & Analysis
Amartya Sen's latest collection of essays explores the rich flow of various peoples in and out of India and how they shaped the politics and spirituality of the nation today.
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Friedman's Imaginary India
Alexander Cockburn : Globalization
India has a billion people in it, and in reality, maybe 2 percent of them get to fly in a plane or go online.
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Invisible Republic
Siddhartha Deb's second novel follows an Indian journalist on an elusive search for meaning.
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Message in a Bottle
Alexander Cockburn : Corporate Responsibility & Accountability
In India, Coca-Cola's plants bring foul water and toxic sludge.
This week: Imagining a new new deal, with Howard Zinn, Frances Moore Lappe, Andrea Batista Schlesinger, Eric Schlosser and...FDR himself. Plus: Ennis Carter and Stephen Duncombe on the political propaganda legacy of the WPA. (13mb mp3)
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