A Nation of Contradictions

Saturday August 8 2026

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India’s main character moment

An article from Impart about the history and culture of public art in India.

Bhikhu Parekh’s analysis of Mahatma Gandhi examines his idea of nonviolence as love.

Here’s the splainer team’s recommended list of new releases.

Souk recommends five lemon yellow products they're loving this week.

The splainer team, past and present, picked the Big Stories we most loved and are proud of.

The declining number of foreign tourists has caused panic. The boa constrictor in the room? Smog.

We cut through mythmaking around the man who presided over the not-so ‘golden age of Tamils’.

We can’t afford to give up Russian oil or weapons without enduring some serious self-harm.