With 2024 elections looming, Opposition must heed lessons of Congress defeat in three state polls

The party cynically appropriated the language and symbols of Hindutva, instead of forging a secular, democratic political strategy. A cutout of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi amid empty chairs after his speech at a rally held during the Bharat Jodo Yatra in Panipat in January 2023. | Reuters When the Indian National Congress rallied its forces…

In grief-struck relief camps, songs and prayers heavy with suffering – Manipur, seven months later

The new border between the Meitei valley and Kuki hills is unyielding and pitiless. A Kuki woman prays inside a church at Kangvai village in Churachandpur district in Manipur, in this photograph from July. | Reuters Manipur has fallen off the national conscience. But as I travel through dusty potholed roads in the picturesque countryside…