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    • Saturday, 23 September, 2023
      ObituaryGita Mehta
      Gita Mehta, writer and journalist, 1943-2023

      Her colourful books and intrepid reporting sidestepped stereotypes of India in favour of a more nuanced portrait

      Gita Mehta in 1997. ‘I wanted to write a postcolonial book which was not an apology,’ she said at the time
    • 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
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