Mamata Banerjee Loses Party, Symbol, and Political ground
Frontlineby Suhrid Sankar Chattopadhyay AI Summary·15d ago
Within just four and a half months after the declaration of the results of the West Bengal Assembly election, Mamata Banerjee, former Chief Minister and maverick mass leader, has practically lost...
Tamil Nadu Byelections 2026: Dharapuram Gets Tense
Frontlineby R K Radhakrishnan AI Summary·16d ago
“Traitor, traitor,” screamed a crowd of All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) supporters near the Dharapuram Revenue Divisional Office (RDO), on September 16, as the Tamilaga Vettri...
Delhi Master Plans and the widening gap between planning and reality
Frontlineby Jagisha Arora·16d ago
Dhiraj Kumar was in North Campus on September 6 when a friend forwarded him news of a building collapse in South Campus.
Germany elections show the political centre losing ground
Frontlineby Ashutosh Nagda·16d ago
Two weeks after the German State of Saxony-Anhalt handed the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) its first single-largest-party status, the country went to the polls again on September 20 in...
Neha Bora, Adityanath, and the Right to Criticise Power
Frontlineby Anand Teltumbde AI Summary·16d ago
On September 14, while addressing a Gen Z Mahajutan or public meeting in Gorakhpur, Neha Bora, a PhD scholar at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) and national president of the All India Students’...
Rajasthan Civic Polls: What the Narrow BJP Win Means for 2028
Frontlineby T K Rajalakshmi AI Summary·16d ago
It was an outcome none anticipated. Local body elections normally favour the incumbent party in power.
IIT Bombay suicide: Sahil Wakode and the caste question
Frontlineby Amey Tirodkar AI Summary·16d ago
On the banks of Powai Lake, on the outskirts of Sanjay Gandhi National Park, IIT Bombay has a picturesque location.
Shrikant Verma Trust and the Politics of Literary Freedom
Frontlineby Apoorvanand AI Summary·16d ago
At the end of the Shrikant Verma Shikhar Samman ceremony, Abhishek Verma, on behalf of the Shrikant Verma Trust, said that literature should be kept completely separate from politics.
Haifa 1918: India, Israel and the politics of memory
Frontlineby Mani Shankar Aiyar AI Summary·16d ago
A little over a century ago, on September 23, 1918, an anniversary the BJP government will be celebrating along with Israel, the eastern Mediterranean port of Haifa on the Palestinian seafront fell...
Gond Art, Patachitra, and the Stories Behind the Paintings
Frontlineby Diya Mantha·17d ago
The first thing that catches the eye is the Amar Kanth, a towering canvas that tells the origin story of the River Narmada.
Punjab’s Akali Factions Battle for the Panthic Space
Frontlineby Ashutosh Sharma AI Summary·17d ago
When Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal returned to political stage in Sri Muktsar Sahib district on August 26 (after surviving an attack at Hazur Sahib in Maharashtra’s Nanded...
False Cases in India: The Myth and Its Hidden Costs
Frontlineby Vasudha Katju·17d ago
Several recent incidents have revealed the depth and breadth of the false case discourse. The death by suicide of the Bangalore-based engineer Atul Subhash led to an outcry against laws on dowry...
Russia Election 2026: Putin’s Party Wins 355 Seats
Frontlineby Frontline News Desk·17d ago
President Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party won a record 355 seats in Russia’s 450-seat State Duma, the lower house of parliament, according to preliminary results from the three-day election...
UPI merchant fee: Who will ultimately bear the cost?
Frontlineby Raji Srinivasan·17d ago
Starting October 15, 2026, a merchant who receives a qualifying Unified Payments Interface (UPI) payment above Rs.2,000 will have to pay a merchant discount rate (MDR) of 0.4 per cent.
Kargil War: Why Brigadier Surinder Singh Was Sacked
Frontlineby Praveen Swami AI Summary·17d ago
The dismissal of Brigadier Surinder Singh from the Army appears to signal the start of a legal battle over the issue. He has displayed professional resolve in executing op (operational) tasks.
Memory as Resistance: Jean Said Makdisi’s Beirut Fragments and the Architecture of War
Frontlineby Khawar Khan Achakzai·17d ago
There is something unsettling about memory. It gives tangible shape to tragedies that strike unexpectedly.
Telangana SIR: Who Is Missing From the Draft Rolls?
Frontlineby Ayesha Minhaz·19d ago
The ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Telangana has resulted in more than 53 lakh electors being placed on the absent, shifted, dead and duplicate (ASDD) list after the...
Brahma Prakash on Hindutva and the politics of spectacle
Frontlineby Siddarth Muralidharan AI Summary·19d ago
Twelve years into three back-to-back BJP governments, much has been written about the political and electoral character of the saffron party.
Aga Ruhullah Mehdi: What His NC Exit Means
Frontlineby Zaid Bin Shabir·19d ago
In May 2020, Aga Syed Ruhullah Mehdi, a senior leader of the Jammu and Kashmir National Conference (NC), was still under house detention when he picked a fight with his own party.
Bhavni Bhavai: Ketan Mehta’s Radical Gujarati Film
Frontlineby Vidyarthy Chatterjee·19d ago
Some 45 years have passed since this writer first saw that breathtaking film about how “untouchables” lived and died—in poverty, squalor, and abject degradation—once upon a time in the land that...
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