Modi’s decade and the rise of mob lynching in India
Frontlineby Mani Shankar Aiyar AI Summary·2d ago
“It is a denial of Hinduism and ahimsa to kill a human being to protect a cow." - Mahatma Gandhi In the last few days, two reports have landed on my table that have caused me immense distress.
Bihar Floods Expose the Politics of a Never-Ending Crisis
Frontlineby Nalin Verma·3d ago
Humans, deer, and wild goats—dazed and jittery—gathered together on the highlands in the vicinity of the Valmiki Tiger Reserve when the massive surge of water broke the embankments at multiple...
Asad Ghanem on Palestinian Political Participation in Israel After October 7
Frontlineby Iftikhar Gilani AI Summary·3d ago
Professor Asad Ghanem is a political scientist at the University of Haifa in Israel and a prominent scholar of Palestinian politics, ethnic states, and minority representation.
Annie Dillard, Pulitzer-winning author of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, dies at 81
Frontlineby Aditya Mani Jha·3d ago
The 81-year-old writer and professor Annie Dillard, who passed away on September 15, wrote one of the most-quoted passages in American literature on page five of her classic 1974 book-length essay...
Israel’s Palestinian Citizens and the Politics of Participation
Frontlineby Iftikhar Gilani AI Summary·3d ago
Drive north from Tel Aviv towards the Galilee another Israel gradually comes into view. Arabic becomes more prominent on shopfronts and signboards.
Omar Abdullah and the JKNC: Two Years of Unfulfilled Promises
Frontlineby Gowhar Geelani AI Summary·3d ago
Speaking after he moved the statehood resolution at the recently concluded autumn session of the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah described the difficulty of...
Tejashwi Yadav Faces His Toughest Test After Bihar Rout
Frontlineby Nalin Verma·3d ago
For the 2025 Bihar Assembly election, pollsters had largely favoured the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) over the Mahagathbandhan of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), the Congress, and Left...
Tamil Nadu bypolls test Vijay’s four-month-old government
Frontlineby R K Radhakrishnan AI Summary·3d ago
Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) chief and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay is treating the byelections to the Madurantakam and Dharapuram seats as a referendum on his four-month-old...
Message from alleged rigging in Bihar: Boycott elections
Frontlineby Ajaz Ashraf AI Summary·3d ago
A day before protests demanding the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar erupted in New Delhi and Mumbai on October 2, yet another allegation of election rigging surfaced—this...
Santhi Soundarajan’s Story of Sport, Poverty, and Inequality
Frontlineby Aarthi Murali·5d ago
Santhi Soundarajan on the track after edging out Kazakhstan’s Viktoriya Yalovtseva for second place in the women’s 800m final at the Asian Games in Doha, on December 9, 2006.
How Coal Became India's 'Solid Mine': A History of Land, Labour, and Dispossession
Frontlineby Somak Mukherjee·5d ago
In 1948, newly independent India’s first Union Minister for Industry and Supply, Syama Prasad Mookerjee, instructed government officials across the country to send his office information about the...
El Niño 2026: Pacific Farmers Face a Changing Climate
Frontlineby Rajesh Daniel; Melissa Gonzalez·5d ago
Wilfred Luiramo walks to the coast every morning to check the seaweed stakes in the shallows. He wades in, clearing the overnight debris, checking each line with his hands, slowly and methodically.
Mumbai Protest Demands Gyanesh Kumar’s Resignation Over SIR
Frontlineby Amey Tirodkar AI Summary·5d ago
Gen-Z does not mince words. They speak plainly, to your face, and with innovative “no holds barred” posters.
Jantar Mantar Protest: 700 Detained Over ECI, SIR
Frontlineby Adil Abass AI Summary·5d ago
On Friday morning, central Delhi, usually bustling, wore a stark, quiet look after the administration closed multiple metro stations ahead of a planned protest at Jantar Mantar against the Election...
Nepal Floods: Why Big Dams Can Deepen Disaster
Frontlineby Abhishek Mukherjee; Ritwika Mitra·6d ago
The recent floods in Nepal killed over 1,400 people and destroyed thousands of homes. According to Daanish Mustafa, professor of critical geography at King’s College London, linking climate change...
Power Play | Follow the dhan
Frontlineby Anand Mishra AI Summary·6d ago
Dear Reader, This week, the Samajwadi Party’s (SP) list of Rajya Sabha candidates came with a surprise.
Gandhi’s Legacy: Why India Needs the Inconvenient Gandhi
Frontlineby GOPALKRISHNA GANDHI AI Summary·6d ago
Is there such a thing as Gandhi’s legacy? There is, well, the name; a legacy for some. Legacy of a kind. His natural heirs have come into it through the accident of birth.
Why Does the Khilafat Movement Still Matter to Indian Politics?
Frontlineby Surya Bulusu·6d ago
Imperial powers combine against a West Asian state in the righteous language of security. The state is weakened and humiliated, unable to answer in proportion to the injury it feels.
Disobedient Subjects: Exploring Bombay’s 1930-31 Civil Disobedience Movement Through Rare Photographs at CSMVS
Frontlineby Avrati Bhatnagar; Sumathi Ramaswamy·6d ago
A photo exhibition brings alive the power of the dissenting multitude during the Civil Disobedience Movement against colonial rule in 1930s Bombay.
Despite the NCERT’s Shocking Move, Gandhi’s Legacy Continues
Frontlineby Ganesh Devy AI Summary·6d ago
A quarter century ago, I was working with beggars in Baroda. Initially, I was trying to find out how many beggars there were in the city and how they formed a community.
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