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Saffron bus blows tyre
Robin Jeffrey
15 May 2023
Narendra Modi’s well-oiled machine ran into trouble in the southern state of Karnataka
International
The Quad couple: India and Australia
Robin Jeffrey
31 March 2023
Let’s start with the good news about Australia–India relations
International
Ruffled feathers or straws in the wind?
Robin Jeffrey
21 February 2023
Defending Adani and attacking the BBC and George Soros: it’s been a busy few weeks for India’s Modi government
International
Modi and Morbi: a prime minister and a town
Robin Jeffrey
5 November 2022
With an election looming in his home state, Narendra Modi risks a disaster-induced setback
Books & Arts
Can-do communalism
Hamish McDonald
3 December 2021
As Australia “rediscovers” India yet again, are its secular forces starting to push back?
From the archive
Home is where the mind is
Robin Jeffrey
27 September 2021
How two sons of empire became leading public intellectuals
International
“Everyone has a horror story to tell”
Robin Jeffrey
12 May 2021
Can the Indian government find the will to turn the pandemic into a “binding crisis”?
Books & Arts
Restless minds
Hamish McDonald
2 February 2021
Books
| Historian Tim Harper enters the hidden world of early-twentieth-century Asian revolutionaries
Books & Arts
The sun also rises
Andrew Ford
9 September 2020
Music
| Zelig-like, sitarist Ravi Shankar became a global celebrity
Books & Arts
Encountering the subcontinent
Hamish McDonald
14 August 2020
Books
| History reveals an often-fraught relationship between two parts of the British Empire
International
India’s corona casualties
Assa Doron
4 May 2020
India’s firm action has been undermined by religious prejudice and poverty
International
Delhi’s elections: roadblock or revolution?
Robin Jeffrey
14 February 2020
A setback for Narendra Modi’s BJP doesn’t necessarily foreshadow a loss of national support
International
How toilets and bugs bind us together
Assa Doron and Alex Broom
18 November 2019
The way India deals with sanitation affects us all
International
The low road to Kashmir
Louise Merrington
19 August 2019
Do India and China have more in common than they care to admit?
International
The man, the moment, the media
Robin Jeffrey
24 May 2019
History helps explain the Modi government’s historic victory this week. But some parts of the country are still holding out
International
India’s experiment in majority government is almost over
Tony O’Grady
27 March 2019
The South Asian giant will be back in more familiar territory after the May election
International
A struggle for India’s soul
Robin Jeffrey
12 March 2019
Despite the border flare-up, the national election result seems likely to be tighter this time
International
#MeToo’s subcontinental shockwaves
Kerry Brown & Marya Shakil
22 November 2018
In a tale of two countries, India is reacting but China is largely unmoved
Books & Arts
Messing about with boats and billionaires
Robin Jeffrey
24 October 2018
Books
| Two reporters find different ways to understand modern India
National Affairs
Australia and India: is it different this time?
Robin Jeffrey
14 August 2018
Along with the vast increase in migration, most signs point to increased cooperation between Australia and India
National Affairs
Garbage in, energy out?
Robin Jeffrey and Assa Doron
4 June 2018
Can Australia learn from India’s war on waste?
Essays & Reportage
Untangling the hair trade
Assa Doron & Robin Jeffrey
28 April 2018
Extract
| Discarded hair makes a circuitous journey from India to the West, gathering value along the way
International
Domestic disharmony
Kerry Brown & Marya Shakil
23 April 2018
India’s Narendra Modi visits China this week as the two countries continue to grapple with internal challenges
Books & Arts
British India: the case for the prosecution
Robin Jeffrey
1 September 2017
Books
| Shashi Tharoor’s vigorous rejoinder to defenders of empire teaches other lessons as well
International
Territory trouble
Louise Merrington
12 July 2017
Despite more than a century of negotiations, the China–India border dispute has flared again, this time under two strongly nationalist leaders
International
Did economics triumph in Uttar Pradesh?
Pawan Singh & Jonathan Balls
21 March 2017
The BJP’s landslide victory in this populous Indian state reflects a potentially combustible mix of old and new
Books & Arts
India’s leader: a two-year assessment
Bob Smith
1 December 2016
Books
| Can a personalised leadership style achieve results in this diverse and complex country?
Books & Arts
The battle for India’s soul
Bob Smith
20 May 2016
Books
| Two new books throw light on the social and religious forces swirling around Narendra Modi’s Indian government, writes
Bob Smith
International
Xi and Modi: parallel autocrats?
Kerry Brown & Marya Shakil
4 March 2016
Is the world big enough for both of them, ask
Kerry Brown
and
Marya Shakil
Books & Arts
Rediscovering India
Kate Sullivan
15 September 2015
Books
|
Kate Sullivan
reviews a new history that challenges enduring myths about Australia’s relations with India
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