Fresh from a year of fieldwork in rural Madhya Pradesh, Mekhala Krishnamurthy landed in Philadelphia in 2010 not quite sure what to make of it. Then, at the University of Pennsylvania’s library, she c...

The author of 'The Evolution of India’s Israel Policy: Continuity, Change, and Compromise since 1922' on the unexpected visit and its fallout.

India in Transition asked Yamini Aiyar, Senior Visiting Fellow at the Saxena Center for Contemporary South Asia and Watson Institute, Brown University, to put together a short reading list of key work...

CASI Managing Editor Rohan Venkat interviews Rohit De and Ornit Shani about how they co-authored their new book, why an Ikea chair is a better analogy for the Indian Constitution than a physical monum...

3 notes on the big India-EU deal, and lots of links.

In the introduction to Making India Work: The Development of Welfare in a Multi-Level Democracy (Cambridge University Press, February 2025), Louise Tillin makes reference to a “doorstop” tome on welfa...

*Our producer wrote this episode name so credit or blame him. Anyway, this is on NYC's mayoral election.

While India has taken a strong security stance against China, its economic posture has been cooperative. But India's reliance on Chinese imports may undermine its role as a counterbalance to China. Th...

Is this a shift in political tactics or a maneuver to blunt domestic criticism?

It’s now been more than a 100 days for Trump’s administration. The self proclaimed master of dealmaking has made international waves, with tariffs that have shaken (and confused) the world. Bu...

This week, India launched retaliatory attacks on Pakistani territory following last month's terror attacks that left 26 people dead in the tourist town of Pahalgam in Kashmir. That was the worst at...

Plus, links on the caste census, Pahalgam and more.

Plus, two other notes on counting Indians.

A conversation with Yamini Aiyar.

Subterranean Press creates readable art, publishing limited editions and groundbreaking original works of science fiction, fantasy, and horror.

Since 1987, not long after he retired as Class II Income Tax officer, thatha has been filling up one page a day with the words Sri Rama Jayam, meaning Jai Sri Ram in Tamil. Every single day, the same ...

Smartphone makers like Apple have made India one of their production and assembly hubs, from where they also export to many countries

Toward the end of India’s Near East: A New History (Hurst, 2024), Avinash Paliwal noted that India’s “over-investment” in Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina could lead to trouble, given her growi...

'Long live the King'

With Donald Trump’s ongoing trade wars, the markets have been rattled. Tariffs come and go, but uncertainty remains. As for the American people, who were promised cheaper every day items, are th...

The tree’s flaming-red flowers herald summer. But its fallen buds, cooked as a fleeting seasonal dish, are a lesson in patience and resisting market economics.

Is a federal bargain with the BJP realistic?

Is a federal bargain with the BJP realistic?

Do Muslims need to be represented only by Muslims? This provocative question is usually overlooked to make a few sweeping generalizations about ever-declining numbers of Muslim MPs and MLAs in legisla...