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The age of post-truth politics Sundar Sarukkai

It isn’t just the U.S., the climate of blatant lies has permeated politics worldwide. Perhaps it is not that truth is irrelevant for politics but what is needed is a theory of truth that fits politics

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Lead In an age of disruptive politics M. K. Narayanan

A new idiom of Dalit assertion

Valerian Rodrigues There’s a new turn in Dalit politics that entails taking charge of affairs in their own hands, and a widening of the terrain of struggle rather than restricting it to political power or religious conversion.

The morality of binaries

G. Sampath Narendra Modi’s political opponents stand no chance against him unless they can script a powerful counter-narrative that resonates with the masses and isn’t about him

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Lead White is the new black

Lead Searching for an equilibrium

Lead The trail Trump’s blazing

Lead Watering the green shoots

The short arc that led to Donald Trump We have lost our ability to understand that politics in the West need not only be about economic issues, it can also be about identity, ethnicity, and race — and it can be ugly

The forgotten war The Maoists are far from diminished. While operations like the one in Malkangiri last month help, the government needs to recognise that the movement cannot be approached only from the law and order perspective

November thunderbolt Donald Trump tapped into the mother lode of basic grievances of the wide swathe of white Americans, particularly the non-college-educated, rural, blue-collar population

The politics of perceptions Material change matters, but perception too determines a feeling of deprivation. Prosperity, good governance and a focus on fairness, rather than electoral pandering, often elicit greater political support

It’s not about just national security ‘National security’ must mark the beginning of the debate over the one-day ban on NDTV India, not the end of it. Our broadcast laws allow the government sweeping powers of censorship with negligible attendant costs

Gazing at a longer horizon A national security doctrine, with political consensus, can prevent the unnecessary politicisation of national security issues. But is the government invested in drawing it up?

Piecing together an encounter There is a crying need to impress upon our young officers that there is no gallantry involved in shooting at people who cannot shoot back

The siege that wasn’t It is still unclear why Imran Khan suddenly withdrew plans to ‘lock down’ Islamabad: whether the military did not support him, or he did not have enough manpower

A tale of two Americas Thirty years ago nobody took Donald Trump seriously. Today many people do. Because, in America, the future is no longer what it used to be.

Winking at the States The Central government’s attempt to dilute the land acquisition law by encouraging States to enact their own versions is a pernicious misuse of a constitutional provision

The pivot through Kabul India’s growing arms footprint in Afghanistan points to an important future aspect of its regional power projection.

An invitation to peace-mongering Our sense of patriotism is so official, aggressive, masculine and managerial, that we have no sense of the processes of peace-making, which are muddy, disorderly and plural