Nepal’s Curse: How Catastrophe Shapes Its Identity
Frontlineby Harsh Pandey4 Sept 2026
I had been coming to Kathmandu for the better part of a decade before I saw Gai Jatra, and I saw it for the first time in the week the Bhote Koshi came down.
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top 99%Power Play | Job Security
Frontlineby Anand Mishra4 Sept 2026
Dear Reader, Jobs are suddenly having a moment in political discourse. Or perhaps it is joblessness that is having a moment.
Koodiyattam: Why Do We Return to the Same Stories?
Frontlineby Prathyush Parasuraman4 Sept 2026
Why do we return to the same stories, with their familiar fates? Take Draupadi’s disrobing in the court of Duryodhana, a seminal moment in the Mahabharata.
Gloria Steinem, Feminist Icon and Activist, Dies at 92
Frontlineby Frontline News Desk4 Sept 2026
Gloria Steinem, the American writer, lecturer, activist, and organiser who fought for gender equality and women’s civil and reproductive rights for more than five decades, died on September 2.
Vidyanand Bapat Attack: Pune’s DJ Debate Turns Political
Frontlineby Amey Tirodkar3 Sept 2026
Vidyanand Bapat was giving an interview to TV9 Marathi news channel on Tilak Road in Pune when a youth attacked him. Few cameramen of news channels were present at the time of the incident.
Sukumara Kurup: The 1984 Murder Case That Won’t End
Frontlineby R K Radhakrishnan3 Sept 2026
The most fascinating murder mystery in Kerala is not of recent origin. The story is that of India’s most elusive fugitive, Sukumara Kurup, who vanished from the country after a murder in 1984...
The US Treasury Crisis and the Threat to Dollar Hegemony
Frontlineby C P Chandrasekhar3 Sept 2026
The global media are gasping over “chaotic” movements in the markets for bonds, the principal instruments used to contract out loans.
Translation of R. Rajagopalan’s "Varambu"
Frontlineby R Rajagopalan3 Sept 2026
I saw him while going out in the morning to buy vegetables. The vendors had spread gunnysacks on both sides of the street, arranging their produce.
India’s ERP Test and the Unequal Burden on Minorities
Frontlineby Sahil Hussain Choudhury3 Sept 2026
In August 2026, a schoolgirl from Prayagraj asked the Allahabad High Court for permission to wear a headscarf as part of her uniform in a private school. The court rejected her request.
The Gen Z Protest That Challenged the Establishment
Frontlineby Pascal Alan Nazareth3 Sept 2026
The American journalist and biographer Louis Fischer had extolled Gandhi’s Salt March in 1930 as an “insurrection without arms”.
India’s Youth Are Changing the Political Equation
Frontlineby Mani Shankar Aiyar3 Sept 2026
The thread of the BJP’s hubris runs from Jantar Mantar to Bankipur. The last few weeks must count among the most unsettling the BJP has faced since it stormed to power in Delhi 12 years ago.
India’s T-Shirt Revolution Is Changing Political Style
Frontlineby Palash Krishna Mehrotra3 Sept 2026
While much has been written about Cockroach Janta Party founder Abhijeet Dipke, I am puzzled by his choice of T-shirt—the white Real Madrid jersey with the ‘Fly Emirates’ logo.
Cockroach Janta Party After Jantar Mantar: What's Next?
Frontlineby Anand Teltumbde3 Sept 2026
The BJP has not forgiven itself for Jantar Mantar. Somewhere in the party’s internal post-mortems, there will be a version of the question every disciplined machine asks after an unplanned defeat...
How Gen Z changed the language of protest
Frontlineby T K Rajalakshmi3 Sept 2026
In the dark times, will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times. From Motto, Bertolt Brecht, 1939.
Great Nicobar: Official maps erase corals amid port push
Frontlineby Pankaj Sekhsaria3 Sept 2026
Two scientific bodies under the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC)—the Kolkata-based Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) and the Chennai-based National Centre for Sustainable...
T.R. Mahalingam: A Portrait of a Musical Genius
Frontlineby S Shiva Kumar3 Sept 2026
The breath of the Almighty piercing the air..... DECEMBER 31, 1985. Krishna Gana Sabha, Madras. The air is charged. For a change, it is with anticipation rather than suspense.
Ruchika Singh Case: The State, IT Cells and Digital Violence
Frontlineby Harsh Mamnani3 Sept 2026
Social media has recently been swarmed with posts in solidarity with Ruchika Singh, a Noida resident accused of using “abusive language” against Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Gen Z’s Jantar...
Rahul Gandhi’s rise is inversely proportional to Modi’s decline
Frontlineby Ajaz Ashraf3 Sept 2026
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi was once “Pappu”, derided for his political naivety and trolled mercilessly.
Udayanidhi Stalin Arrest Row Explained
Frontlineby R K Radhakrishnan3 Sept 2026
The Leader of Opposition in the Tamil Nadu Assembly, Udhayanidhi Stalin of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), has been widely condemned for a public comment that appeared to make a vulgar...
Sobhana K. Nair Reframes Parliament as a Living Protagonist of Indian Democracy
Frontlineby Manoj Kumar Jha3 Sept 2026
There are biographies that faithfully assemble facts yet somehow fail to animate the life they seek to capture and present.