The essays in “Bland Fanatics” trace today’s crises to a long history of violent colonial oppression.

The adaptation of Aravind Adiga’s novel explores the cruelties of making it big.

Isabel Wilkerson compares American racism to structures of oppression in India and Nazi Germany.

“One Billion Americans” is a loosely-informed mishmash of policy, held together by anxieties about American power.

Anjali Ponni Rajkumar saw her government fail. And she saw the stark divide between rich and poor.

Jeet Thayil’s new novel features a bereaved narrator, depression, and lots of drugs.

How a warming world is sparking calls for a greener web

The decision to revoke Kashmir's special status is part of a ghastly—and popular—agenda for Delhi's hard-right Hindu government.

Narendra Modi has been reelected. In part, that's because Indian leftists, like American leftists, have been trying to imitate right-wingers rather than countering them.

The author and activist talks to The New Republic about Narendra Modi, the decimation of India's opposition, and the way forward.

For the first time, female voters are set to outnumber male voters in the world's largest national election.

As the country heads to the polls, the current prime minister is declaring victory in his "Clean India" campaign. His party still won't acknowledge that the real problem is inequality.

Thanks to Trump and the Russia investigation, the liberal network is booming. But is it selling its viewers a conspiratorial fantasy?

The United States says it has a right to chase terrorists in other countries. Now, India is following suit—in Pakistan.

What the violent death of an American missionary on a far-flung island might say about the rest of us

The Camp Fire's flames are spreading pollutants shown to affect human health—and climate change is likely to make that worse.

A new policy in India displays imperialism's disastrous aftershocks—but also the way in which legal language is increasingly used, around the globe, to mask what is in fact ethnic cleansing.

How a new generation of authoritarian leaders are using climate change to seize power

Two decades after India tested its nuclear weapons, the country still isn't in a position to do what the United States wants from it: help counter China.