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Within a week of taking over West Bengal’s administration, the new BJP government has unleashed a spate of high-profile arrests. On 11 May, the...
A year after Operation Sindoor, the Narendra Modi government of India still describes it as proof of a new doctrine, a signal that terrorism traced to...
This month, I was in Odisha as part of a people’s tribunal examining atrocities against Christians, in particular Adivasis. My fellow tribunal...
Since the time US President Donald Trump contemplated a summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping during his proposed visit to Beijing on 14-15 May —...
The UAE’s decision to walk out of OPEC and OPEC is not just about oil. It represents a blunt geopolitical rupture. Abu Dhabi is no longer...
There’s a new hotspot in South Asia’s geopolitics. Located at an altitude of 17,000 feet, Lipulekh Pass is a narrow gap in the ridge line of...
Less than a week after Sandeep Pathak — a Rajya Sabha MP from Punjab — defected from the Aam Aadmi Party to join the BJP, a Punjab Police team...
As a child, mornings always carried more than the promise of a new day. They meant newspapers, discussions on politics, strains of Rabindra Sangeet...
The elevation of Suvendu Adhikari as the first Bharatiya Janata Party Chief Minister of West Bengal marks one of the most dramatic political...
The verdict in Kerala on 4 May was not just a vote for change. Nor merely an expression of anti-incumbency as many commentators had you think. It was...
Since these are tricky times, let us begin this week with a trick question: what do the following events have in common with each other? The huge, and...
Think one day at a time. This was the strategy of farmers to stay afloat in Takwiki village, in Maharashtra’s drought-prone Dharashiv district in...
Tamil Nadu has delivered a verdict that resists easy interpretation. At the centre of the churn is Joseph Vijay Chandrasekhar, whose emergence has not...
If the BJP’s triumph in the 2026 West Bengal assembly elections is remembered as a turning point in the history of the state, it won’t be simply...
Today, 7 May marks the first anniversary of Operation Sindoor, the high-stakes military intervention that redefined the India–Pakistan security...
The Opposition parties in India are either naive or we must conclude that they may not be really sincere when they shout about ‘vote chori’. If...
“We can count the votes that were cast. We cannot recover the votes that were never allowed to be cast,” writes Gilles Vernier, a researcher at...
The election results from West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Assam and Puducherry, on the surface, are a boost for the BJP and its style of...
Although only 1 crore votes out of 6 crore had been counted till 1.00 pm on Monday, 4 May, the writing on the wall appeared clear enough. The BJP was...
It’s India’s turn at the helm of BRICS this year and its position in the bloc — once seen as a counterweight to Western-dominated alliances and...
The ongoing crisis in West Asia has exposed India’s vulnerability as the world’s third largest consumer of crude oil, importing nearly 89 per cent...
As the dust settles on the second phase of the 2026 West Bengal Assembly elections, one reality stands out amid the intense contest between the...
If you are a normal voter, you have any number of parties you can support and vote for. There is the DMK, AIADMK, TDP, NCP, PDP, TMC, INC, JD(S) and...
There was a time in Nehruvian India when the poor had faith in a simple yet revolutionary idea: ‘Padh jaayenge, toh badh jaayenge’. Education was...
April was never this hot. As temperatures soared to 45°C and above and people huffed and puffed, it didn’t help to learn from weather update apps...
Today, May Day 2026, as India's 25 crore workers echo their 22 April Bharat Bandh against the diluted Labour Codes, we reclaim the Chicago...
The Union government has once again gone against the ruling of the Supreme Court to ram through Parliament the CAPF Act 2026. The Act was notified on...
Were the general elections that brought the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) to power with a thumping majority after nearly 18 turbulent months free...
The immediate crisis triggered by the delimitation proposals tabled in Parliament last week may have been averted, but only just. The defeat of the...
The Gulf countries didn’t start the war. Yet they’re paying a terrible price. In battered infrastructure and the erosion of a carefully...
Those following relations between India and Bangladesh are taken aback by the Modi government’s decision to send Dinesh Trivedi, a political...
Civilisations are created by poets, writers, painters, architects, but are destroyed by politicians and their armies. We would do well to remember...
A story under this headline was reported this month: ‘No Muslim name finds place in BJP’s Bengal list’. The story went on to provide readers the...
When Donald Trump amplifies a remark describing countries like India as “hellholes,” it is not merely a lapse in language—it is a calculated...
India has a new champion of women. He is loud about it. He wants you to believe it. And he is counting on you to forget everything that came before....
There are credible reports that China The violence in Manipur is escalating at an alarming rate. People are being killed, including children. Bomb...
It’s a war in Bengal. Between Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress, which has had an unbroken run of three terms or 15 years in the state, and the...
The recent directive by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE)—making third language (R3) compulsory from Class VI—will reshape...
In the history of the Indian Republic, the ‘Address to the Nation’ has traditionally been treated as a solemn instrument of the state — a...
Ever since US President Donald Trump realised that bombarding Iran would not result in the Islamic regime in Tehran caving in, he began looking for a...
Great powers sometimes isolate themselves through overreach. The United States under Donald Trump is in that zone. By aligning reflexively with...
On Thursday, 16 April, Tamil Nadu chief minister M.K. Stalin burnt a copy of the proposed Constitution (131st) Amendment Bill 2026 and hoisted a black...
What explains our inability — or, if we are to be charitable, our reticence — to influence the world around us? Like the rest of the world, India...
On 17 April, the Imphal Times carried a headline: 'CM Khemchand calls for dialogue, peace during emotional visit to various villages of Ukhrul...
Imphal Times of 17 April carried the headline: “CM Khemchand calls for dialogue, peace during emotional visit to various villages of Ukhrul...
The suspense has finally been laid to rest. The ‘revolutionary’ step we were primed to expect, ostensibly to empower India’s women, was suddenly...
When factory workers in Noida’s industrial sectors protested on 13–14 April, India’s prime time TV anchors got to work on a plausible conspiracy...
The Reserve Bank of India’s Inflation Expectations Survey of Households (March 2026 round) shows perceived inflation to be 7.2 per cent. This is...
The two-day debate in the Lok Sabha on the women’s reservation Bill failed to answer several critical questions. While the Bill, reintroduced after...
As West Bengal moves towards the 2026 Assembly elections scheduled for 23 and 29 April, a key political message emerging from opposition parties is...
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