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  • Monday, 11 September, 2023
    Stephen Bush
    The history wars have a big casualty — the past

    Sins of omission and distortion from politicians are complicating the real point of the discipline

    Illustration of Narendra Modi from behind using a roller to paint the Indian flag over the Union Jack
  • Monday, 4 September, 2023
    Devesh Kapur
    As the G20 summit nears, India is tearing itself apart

    The country should apply its expansive theme for the event — ‘One World, One Family, One Future’ — to itself

    Narendra Modi address a huge crowd in New Delhi last month
  • Sunday, 13 August, 2023
    Ruchir Sharma
    What India needs is more cricket and less Bollywood

    As the Indian Premier League adapts to the digital age, Hindi films lose fans thanks to stale scripts and ageing stars

    Shah Rukh Khan and Deepika Padukone in Pathaan
  • Wednesday, 2 August, 2023
    India cracks down on sectarian violence in New Delhi’s business hub

    Clashes near offices of global corporates raise fears of wider unrest ahead of elections next year

    Police stand guard outside a mosque after violent communal clashes in Gurugram on Tuesday
  • Tuesday, 25 July, 2023
    Martin Wolf
    Modi’s India is moving in an illiberal direction

    His government has taken huge risks in riding the tiger of politicised religion

    James Ferguson illustration of a roaring tiger guarding a ballot box
  • Friday, 23 June, 2023
    FT Magazine
    Meet the Indian wrestlers taking on Modi’s establishment 

    A group of athletes has launched their own #MeToo movement

    Wrestlers Sakshi Malik, Vinesh Phogat, Bajrang Punia along with supporters lead the protest march from Jantar Mantar towards New Parliament
  • Thursday, 15 June, 2023
    News in-depthIndian politics & policy
    India’s Manipur state riven by ethnic violence

    Clashes over land rights and tribal privileges kill more than 100 in north-eastern border region

    Meitei refugees prepare to board a paramilitary truck in Churachandpur, near Imphal, last month
  • Tuesday, 6 June, 2023
    India drops evolution and periodic table from some school textbooks

    Educators condemn move by Narendra Modi’s government as threat to science teaching and IT sector

    Indian students demonstrate a display during a science fair
  • Wednesday, 17 May, 2023
    ReviewFT Books Essay
    Triumph or tragedy? — India’s demographic dilemmas

    Three new books consider the country’s economic potential and pitfalls from different perspectives

  • Tuesday, 16 May, 2023
    Inside BusinessJohn Reed
    Gauging India’s middle-class opportunity

    With the country now ranked as the world’s most populous nation, the size of its consuming classes is being reassessed

    A shopper drags a basket through an aisle of personal care goods at a hypermarket in Mumbai
  • Friday, 28 April, 2023
    Visual story
    ‘India’s century’: can the most populous nation unlock the potential of its youth?

    India could seize its demographic dividend — or squander it

  • Wednesday, 26 April, 2023
    Global InsightJohn Reed
    India and China play down the big demographic news

    New Delhi and Beijing give little weight to long-projected population crossover

    A crowd of Indian citizens
  • Monday, 24 April, 2023
    Demographics and population
    India passed China as world’s most populous country in April, UN says

    Country’s population set to grow for several decades, while the number of people in China declines

    People at a mall in New Delhi
  • Thursday, 20 April, 2023
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    India’s democratic backsliding

    Decline of political freedoms under Narendra Modi is tragic for the country and the world

    Narendra Modi greets crowds of supporters as they shower him in rose petals
  • Thursday, 20 April, 2023
    The Big Read
    India’s big idea to bring the digital marketplace to the masses

    New Delhi has pioneered a new approach to online infrastructure in its drive to connect 1.4bn. But there are privacy and data protection concerns

    A health worker looks at her phone in front of a circuitboard background, with the symbol of the Indian government to the right
  • Wednesday, 19 April, 2023
    Demographics and population
    India to overtake China as world’s most populous country this year

    UN data marks a historic shift for the two Asian rivals

    People walk through the Sadar Bazaar in New Delhi, India
  • Friday, 14 April, 2023
    Nilanjana Roy
    The writers fighting caste inequalities

    A bold generation of novelists, journalists and academics is demanding sweeping structural changes and access to resources, land and capital

    Woman in a garden
  • Sunday, 2 April, 2023
    Global InsightJohn Reed
    Modi will struggle to cage the Gandhi dynasty

    The defenestration of India’s most prominent opposition leader could backfire for the ruling BJP

    A mural in Chennai depicts the Congress party’s   Rahul Gandhi
  • Sunday, 19 February, 2023
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    India’s creeping clampdown on free expression

    The raids on the BBC are part of a troubling global picture for media rights

    A police officer stands outside the BBC office in New Delhi. Reporters Without Borders said the raids bore ‘all the hallmarks of a reprisal’
  • Wednesday, 8 February, 2023
    News in-depthAdani Group
    Indian PM Narendra Modi’s opponents seize on Adani Group woes

    Opposition targets country’s ruling Bharatiya Janata party over crisis at conglomerate run by leader’s ally

    Demonstrators wave posters while clinging to the gates of the Life Insurance Corporation office during a protest in New Delhi, India
  • Friday, 27 January, 2023
    The Weekend Essay
    India against Gandhi — a legacy rewritten

    Seventy-five years after his assassination, the ‘father of the nation’ is a problem for Narendra Modi — but the country still needs his ideas

    Mahatma Gandhi
  • Sunday, 22 January, 2023
    Indian business & finance
    India plots digital diplomacy push during G20 presidency

    New Delhi hopes to use role to champion domestic tech such as its payments system overseas

    Amitabh Kant
  • Wednesday, 18 January, 2023
    OutlookBenjamin Parkin
    Shah Rukh Khan’s Bollywood blockbuster meets India’s culture wars

    Hardline Hindu nationalists have made the actor a target for harassment

    Shah Rukh Khan poses wearing a suit and sunglasses
  • Friday, 11 November, 2022
    ObituaryEla Ramesh Bhatt
    Ela Ramesh Bhatt, activist, 1933-2022

    Known as India’s ‘gentle revolutionary’, she founded the country’s first working women’s movement

    Picture of Ela Ramesh Bhatt sitting on the swing bench in her living room
  • Friday, 28 October, 2022
    FT Magazine
    Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: India’s power guru in Ray-Bans and a Kia 

    The Art of Living leader has 5mn Facebook followers and a Spotify podcast. What’s behind his rise?

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