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South Korean author Han Kang wins Nobel Prize in literature for intense poetic prose on historical traumas.| Frontline
Loneliness isn’t often linked to Africa, but it is very common. Most affected are young people dealing with changing social and family structures.| Latest India Story Coverage | Frontline | Frontline
The veteran leader talks about rebuilding trust with Kashmir, reviving democracy, and resisting communal politics.| Latest India Story Coverage | Frontline | Frontline
Families of those killed in the September 2008 explosion want Maharashtra to appeal the NIA court verdict, but have little hope of justice.| Latest India Story Coverage | Frontline | Frontline
The model metropolis was built into the river’s path. Now, each monsoon delivers the flood it was promised.| Latest India Story Coverage | Frontline | Frontline
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India’s growth dream rests more on political spin and statistical sleight-of-hand than on real economic fundamentals.| Latest India Story Coverage | Frontline | Frontline
India’s export-led growth fuels a divide: high-productivity services with few jobs vs. stagnant manufacturing and wage gaps. A reboot is needed.| Latest India Story Coverage | Frontline | Frontline
Without job creation and deep reforms, a once-in-a-century opportunity may become a long-term burden.| Latest India Story Coverage | Frontline | Frontline
The arbitrary arrest of two Malayali nuns in Chhattisgarh exposes BJP’s double standards, targeting religious minorities while claiming inclusivity.| Latest India Story Coverage | Frontline | Frontline
The arrest, which has sparked widespread outrage, also signals a rise in state-backed repression of Adivasi Christians.| Latest India Story Coverage | Frontline | Frontline
Cloudbursts in Kashmir highlight fragile Himalayan terrain, where deforestation, mining, and unplanned growth intensify climate impacts.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
The seemingly domestic scenes in Tom Vattakuzhy’s works carry stories of migration, alienation, loneliness, and today’s political climate.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
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Modi’s new push might streamline GST and ease rules, but land and labour remain off the table. Growth, yes. Transformation? Not just yet.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
The Israeli Indologist says one must perform ethical acts in ambiguous conditions, and say no when they are forced to perform the wrong act.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
Trump escalates tariffs, Modi pretends indifference, Putin watches. Realpolitik ensures the game goes on despite the noise.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
The great American sport of India-bashing becomes a team effort.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
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As the LDF government hosts the religious conference in Sabarimala, the saffron party accuses the Left of politicising Hindu traditions.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
Justice Pancholi’s elevation carries unresolved integrity concerns, casting a long shadow on the Supreme Court’s future leadership.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
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Constitutional safeguards keep them accessible and safe, yet state neglect and rising majoritarianism turn the promise into a cycle of exclusion.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
NIPUN Bharat has lifted literacy and numeracy in early grades, with rural, State schools—long derided— now showing better results than private ones.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
The sociologist unpacks how caste persists in India’s education system and why equality of opportunity remains distant.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
The Right to Education Act, 2009, remains the world’s boldest attempt at affirmative action. Yet amendments in a few States threaten to unravel it.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
Schools chasing “Indianness” and Hindi fall to tokenism, instead of fostering mother-tongue and English learning that drives empowerment.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
Multigrade classrooms are India’s norm. By ignoring it, policymakers turn teachers into scapegoats and children into statistics.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
A century after empire, India’s classrooms remain bound by caste, class, and narrow nationalism, far from Tagore’s vision of equal schooling.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
RINL’s recent tender for outsourcing operations of critical departments triggers fresh protests.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
While massive reforms are needed to bring real equity, individual faculty members can and must initiate critical dialogues in classrooms.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
Public libraries remain missing, leaving children and workers without the tools to read, imagine, and claim the rights promised in the Constitution.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
NEP 2020 shrugs off the Right to Education, discarding access and accountability while chaining schools to India’s old caste-class order of exclusion.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
Treating education as mere management hides its real role: schools shape citizens, society, and democracy itself.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
An open letter to PM Modi on what he needs to do, and what baggage he must shed, to make the visit a historic one.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
Curated pieces from past issues that read Pather Panchali through its social context and unfading beauty.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
Bolivia looks set to return to its neoliberal past.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
New database tells victims’ stories of forced medical research. What role do specimens and findings from that era play in modern medicine and research?| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
Record heat and wildfires spread while defence budgets rise beyond Cold War levels.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
A poignant autobiographical short story by one of India’s finest writers.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
A rare Hindi film dares to linger on the gaze. But can love stories survive without confronting caste, class, and the family they orbit?| Frontline Columnists - The Best Opinion on the Web Today | Frontline
As J.P. Nadda steps down, the BJP’s presidential race will pit Delhi against Nagpur, as the RSS tries to wean power away from the Modi-Shah duo.| Frontline Columnists - The Best Opinion on the Web Today | Frontline
From Operation Sindoor to Trump’s claims, the reflection shows a state ruled by image, not intent.| Frontline Columnists - The Best Opinion on the Web Today | Frontline
In the era of far-right dominance, Global South can offer an alternative vision and lay the groundwork for a more democratic, equitable global order.| Frontline Columnists - The Best Opinion on the Web Today | Frontline
The ICC has named Israel. The UN has called it genocide. But India’s response stops short of accountability, buried in diplomatic cowardice.| Frontline Columnists - The Best Opinion on the Web Today | Frontline
The digital age has turned existence into self-justification: we narrate our lives to Instagram before we have even lived them.| Frontline Columnists - The Best Opinion on the Web Today | Frontline
The government urgently needs to address the sloppy show on the industrial front, with firm political will and clear economic foresight.| Latest News from The Hindu Frontline | Frontline
In Chhattisgarh, the party staunchly pushed a forced conversion narrative, whereas in Kerala, wary of losing Christian support, it backed the nuns.| Latest News from The Hindu Frontline | Frontline
More than two years after violence erupted, the Meitei and Kuki-Zo groups remain divided by more than their respective relief camps.| Latest News from The Hindu Frontline | Frontline
Earthquakes are natural but not always disastrous. Some countries show how preparation and innovation can save lives.| Latest News from The Hindu Frontline | Frontline
Russia’s far eastern peninsula Kamchatka rocked by 8.8 quake; coastlines across the Pacific brace for dangerous waves amid mass evacuations.| Latest News from The Hindu Frontline | Frontline
Telangana’s new flood and asset protection agency has removed illegal structures and restored lakes, but questions remain about fairness and legality.| Latest News from The Hindu Frontline | Frontline
At The Hague, small island states win a moral and legal milestone against fossil fuel impunity.| Latest News from The Hindu Frontline | Frontline
INDIA coalition unites on multiple fronts to resist the Bihar voter list revision, alleging the ECI process enables disenfranchisement and opacity.| Latest News from The Hindu Frontline | Frontline
The 2006 Mumbai blasts case shows how MCOCA erased due process and turned working-class Muslims into collateral for a broken justice system.| Latest News from The Hindu Frontline | Frontline
In the shadow of Bhima Koregaon, the Supreme Court lets delay speak louder than justice.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
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Their scripts spoke to the oppressed and the powerful in one breath, reminding us that film is never neutral ground.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
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Yadav says Bihar’s electoral roll revision is systematic voter exclusion targeting marginalised communities.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
The study’s authors, Patrick Heller and Siddharth Swaminathan, speak on the limits of governance in Indian cities.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
Branded outsiders in their own country, migrant workers slip away, leaving high-rises without their backbone.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
The $137 billion project can generate 60 GW of power, but lacks transparency on water storage capacity and environmental impact on millions of people.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
Brigadier Usman chose India over Pakistan; today his people face lynchings, ghettoisation, and political abandonment.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
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Historian, whose book on Kashmir has been banned by J&K administration, says curtailing knowledge inevitably backfires.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
Marked “industrial” in the 1980s, the land grew into a rare forest. Now 2,500 trees risk ruin for malls and parks the city never really asked for.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
The Rs.3,000 FASTag pass sells itself as equal relief, but its flat fee favours wealthier corridors and leaves many commuters paying full price.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
How horror comedies bend fear into a critique of patriarchy. Scary, right?| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
A close look at the people whose largely unnoticed stories are an integral part of the legend of the Indian Railways.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
One year after Hasina’s fall, Dhaka drifts between unrest and recalibration, while India faces lost leverage and a hostile flank.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
The artist’s colourful, quirky works hark back to an older, gentler aesthetic, which is becoming rare in our algorithm-driven, machismo-fuelled world.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
The anthropologist on America’s fortress mentality, the paradox of defensive infrastructure, and why India risks following the same path.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
Behind Modi’s talk of Amrit Kaal, lakhs surrender passports each year—seeking stability, dignity, or just an easier tomorrow elsewhere.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
Former R&AW official analyses Pakistan Army chief’s recent remarks in the US and warns of dangers from a leader hallucinated about victory.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
The saffron party’s move is aimed at boosting its clout in western Tamil Nadu and expanding its footprint in the State.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
The African American poet’s life of exclusion and hope resonates with Dalit literature and activism in 21st-century India.| Reviews of latest books and articles on authors | Frontline
India’s higher judiciary speaks of equality while women, after a century in law, remain a micro-minority.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
At his press conference, the CEC dismissed evidence of voter roll manipulation with bluster, leaving the Commission’s credibility at its lowest point.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
The maker of Working Girls on why orthodox documentary formats reflect colonial attitudes, making films that audiences want to watch, and more.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
A tariff war will not wound Modi or Trump, but millions of Indian workers already on the edge.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
Film guild AMMA, accused of protecting powerful men, now has women leaders. The question is whether power will be used differently this time.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
India must choose justice over Western alliances in Gaza’s genocide and reclaim its moral compass.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
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Unlikely at the current pace, with slow rescues, faltering convictions and millions still in debt as the 2030 target approaches.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
The neck upholds everything that we recognise as human: sentience, identity, vulnerability. Yet, history has been barbaric to it.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
Rising violence against minorities concerning religious conversion calls for urgent intervention from political, judicial, and civil society groups.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
A closer look at the movements, leaders, and debates that won India its independence.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
Poor planning and inadequate infrastructure seem to have turned religious pilgrimage into tragedy for devotees.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
A year on, the KMUT scheme boosts women’s confidence, but rising costs and new risks cloud its promise, says a new report.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
Telangana’s forest plan promised protection for tigers but skipped the one safeguard tribal communities insist on—free, prior consent.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
Thrissur saw a massive voter surge ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha election, and investigations are now showing grave discrepancies.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
Trump bets a fading US can wield tariffs to sustain its sway, but weak tools and weaker outcomes may outlast the optimism.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
Rahul Gandhi’s Mahadevapura exposé turns a long-brewing distrust into open scrutiny, leaving the poll body’s authority visibly frayed.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
South Korean author Han Kang wins Nobel Prize in literature for intense poetic prose on historical traumas.| Frontline
Speculation abounds on potential non-Western Nobel Prize in Literature winners, including Chinese author Can Xue and Australian novelist Gerald Murnane.| Frontline
Israel’s government has ordered officials to boycott the Haaretz newspaper and is also putting pressure on the public broadcaster Kan over their perceived critical reporting of the Israel-Hamas war.| Frontline
The Booker winner on reading hungrily, learning from the marginalised, and literature as activism.| Reviews of latest books and articles on authors | Frontline
