Sreenivasan Jain

Sreenivasan Jain: Cost of conflict in Kashmir

Talk of azadi will remain hollow given how deeply the Valley is locked into a cycle of dependence

Sreenivasan Jain: Looking beyond the usual suspects

With Holey Artisan Bakery, Bangladesh's creaky edifice of denialism has come undone

Sreenivasan Jain: Headline you wouldn't read post-poll...

... "Forget Panama Papers - how in just four weeks political parties routed Rs 1,000 crore of illicit wealth through criminal networks to bribe voters"

Sreenivasan Jain: Mother knows best: view from a Jayalalithaa rally

A recent Salem event was perhaps the first time many in the crowd were seeing Jayalalithaa in person in the past five years. A brief stint in jail had made her more reclusive. But none of that seemed

Sreenivasan Jain: The rise of high-level majoritarianism

It's not necessarily intolerance that has been rising. It's something else

Sreenivasan Jain: Distress signal

The lens with which we report India's farm crisis has to change

Sreenivasan Jain: Disproportionate action against Teesta Setalvad?

The government does not seem to have sufficient grounds to invoke the CBI against Teesta Setalvad

Sreenivasan Jain: #JayaReturns: Notes from a political comeback

Elsewhere in India, there may be gestures to shed the trappings of the VIP culture. But not in Chennai. The currents of change have barely disturbed the hothouse of Dravidian political culture

Sreenivasan Jain: Kissa kisan ka - Evading blame for rural distress

Events after a farmer's suicide at an AAP rally encapsulate the state of public discourse on Indian agriculture

Sreenivasan Jain: The noise around the land acquisition law

The debate over the land ordinance is best located in facts, not hyperbole

Sreenivasan Jain: The Katihar model

A lesson for the Swachh Bharat Mission from a small town in Bihar

Sreenivasan Jain: All in the Parivar

The scale and nature of Modi's election victory mean the higher tiers of the Sangh Parivar feel no need for restraint

Sreenivasan Jain: The Karnataka (non)-model

The inertia of the last major Congress state reflects the malaise that has gripped the party

Sreenivasan Jain: Red herrings & the black money whale

The conversation no political party wants to have

Sreenivasan Jain: Is Swachh Bharat repeating mistakes of the past?

India's proposed toilet revolution is all set to repeat mistakes of the past

Sreenivasan Jain| The price of silence at the top: Modi's dilemma

Zafar Sareshwala, Narendra Modi's staunchest muslim supporter, believes people could abandon the BJP if the party goes back to regressive and polarising issues

Sreenivasan Jain: The ghosts of India's power 'crisis' return

The new regime seems determined to recycle the mythologies over the shortage of coal and power

Sreenivasan Jain: When NaMo takes the stage

Conversations at a rally in eastern Uttar Pradesh show how Narendra Modi is attempting to tilt this heartland in favour of the BJP

Sreenivasan Jain: Saharashri's jail trail

How months of stalling, reversals and obfuscatory answers may have led to Subrata Roy's imprisonment

Sreenivasan Jain: The 'real' cost of spin

Where do the Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party get their publicity and advertising monies from? The current norm of self-declaration of finances by political parties is not providing answers