Kashmir’s Waqf Board centralised shrine management and dismissed an imam. The board says it’s ending corruption; critics see political capture.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
India’s media, film, and digital ecosystem are a culture industry manufacturing consent for authoritarian power. Democracy must resist.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
Football has become more than a game, with the maidan turning into an arena where Partition memories and present exclusions collide in protest.| | Frontline
Long-time non-voters turned up at polls, changing the region’s power balance and surprising the old guard.| | Frontline
HIAL co-founder says government misread “food sovereignty” as national threat, calls NSA detention “draconian”.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
Democratic forces must understand how cultural movements can evolve from idealism through populism to fascism if they are to capably counter the RSS.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
India’s progress depends on fostering Hindu–Muslim harmony and healing. Does the RSS have the imagination to shed its exclusionary ideas?| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
Without the Muslim other, the RSS would lose its moral legitimacy and organisational raison d’être.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
The BJP’s efforts to shake off the hold of its mentor indicate a power struggle that could redefine the Sangh’s political role.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
In its centenary year, the RSS appears to have grown in size and body alone, but not in mind and wisdom.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
Hindutva’s ideological fountainhead is no more an outfit on the margins. It is a deep state influencing every imaginable facet of life in the country.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
How India’s most powerful “cultural organisation” cloaked its divisive political agenda in the garb of nationalism and unity.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
The Enforcement Directorate’s case against the Gandhis is less legal than political, keeping opposition leadership under criminal suspicion.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
Chirag Paswan’s single-minded bargaining may make him the player no side can afford to ignore in election-bound Bihar.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
Ruling TDP’s refusal to grant LoP status to Jagan Reddy follows the rulebook but drains dissent of dignity and weakens India’s democratic balance.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
What started as a whistleblower’s shocking claims has morphed into Karnataka’s newest political circus, with actual answers getting lost in the scrum.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
The INDIA bloc pins hopes on Rahul and Tejashwi’s yatra, linking “vote theft” to jobs and rights in Bihar and beyond.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
The special episode of Latitude at Frontline examines K. Padmanabha’s murder and the fallout of India-Sri Lanka relations.| Latest India Story Coverage | Frontline | Frontline
By banking on the courts instead of building ground resistance, the opposition has only helped validate Bihar’s controversial electoral roll revision.| Latest India Story Coverage | Frontline | Frontline
The Waqf Amendment Bill controversy and Uttar Pradesh’s namaz ban spark backlash, with NDA allies JD(U) and TDP struggling to balance regional politics amid rising Hindu-Muslim tensions and Yogi Adityanath’s strict policies.| Frontline
The Bihar Assembly Election 2025 is a crucial battle, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister Nitish Kumar steering the NDA, while RJD and the Mahagathbandhan push for a comeback. With shifting alliances, BJP and JDU focus on consolidating OBC and caste-based support, as the opposition counters their strategy. The big question remains—will Nitish Kumar retain power, or will the RJD-led alliance redefine Bihar’s political future?| Frontline
Despite political influence and a high-profile family legacy, the former JD(S) MP was convicted after digital and eyewitness evidence proved decisive.| Latest News from The Hindu Frontline | Frontline
In July alone, the State saw a series of violent crimes, including rape, mob lynching, and public shootings.| Latest News from The Hindu Frontline | Frontline
With less than a year left for the Tamil Nadu Assembly election, the BJP has made an interesting shift in stance, but the DMK has a counter.| Latest News from The Hindu Frontline | Frontline
Justice Varma sees fast-tracked proceedings, while Justice Yadav’s case stalls. When politics enters the courtroom, timing tells the story.| Latest News from The Hindu Frontline | Frontline
Accused without evidence, detained without due process, migrant labourers from West Bengal face hostility as identity becomes a pretext for exclusion.| Latest News from The Hindu Frontline | Frontline
The writer and activist Banu Mushtaq fears that the Prajwal sex scandal will distract voters in north Karnataka, diverting the campaign from more substantive issues.| Frontline
The film’s Hindutva tilt and Trinamool’s heavy hand meet at the box office, and Bengal’s voters are the real audience.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
The latest revelations in Maharashtra confirm what many already fear: the Election Commission no longer inspires trust.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
Opposition fields author of Salwa Judum verdict against RSS veteran Radhakrishnan. INDIA bloc knows the math but wants constitutional symbolism.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
The co-director of Lokniti-CSDS warns Bihar’s SIR exercise risks disenfranchising millions and eroding trust in Indian democracy.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
The BJP has begun extolling the virtues of Dr B.R. Ambedkar. But one can tell from both what he said and wrote that he was viscerally opposed to the Hindu Mahasabha and the RSS.| Frontline
The Rajya Sabha MP speaks on coalition politics, majoritarianism, and why India’s democracy needs checks against single-party dominance.| Reviews of latest books and articles on authors | Frontline
With acerbic urgency, MPs spotlight how Bihar’s intensive roll revision may strip marginalised communities of their democratic voice.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
A record gap in filling the post sidelines the opposition and bends constitutional intent.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
Once a constitutional safeguard, the ECI now risks enabling the erosion of India’s democratic norms through partisanship and opacity.| Latest India Story Coverage | Frontline | Frontline
The Lieutenant-Governor’s plan to nominate five MLAs has Opposition parties fearing a repeat of how Congress was toppled in Puducherry.| Latest India Story Coverage | Frontline | Frontline
The latest ban on critical works in Kashmir targets collective memory and suppresses voices that challenge official narratives of power and history.| Latest India Story Coverage | Frontline | Frontline
Despite claims of restored democracy, Kashmir remains voiceless under Delhi’s control. Explore the power vacuum, silenced leaders, and blocked ambulances.| Frontline
The city’s rail network sees thousands of commuter deaths each year. Government plans focus on global growth, not on making daily travel safe or fair.| Latest India Story Coverage | Frontline | Frontline
RSS leader Hosabale questions secular and socialist ideals, exposing deeper ideological aims behind Sangh Parivar’s view of the Constitution.| Frontline
BJP-led government says it’s fighting “Urban Maoists”, but critics say the MSPS Bill is the biggest threat to free speech since the Emergency.| Latest Politics News | Frontline | Frontline
No truck with the BJP or the DMK, says TVK; election season arrives early as major parties gear up for public outreach.| Latest Politics News | Frontline | Frontline
Recent assassination attempts on Trinamool leaders reveal growing trend of hired hitmen from Bihar, property disputes fueling violence, and internal party tensions over security failures.| Frontline
Staying away from caste and focusing on education, employment, and empowerment is the message the political strategist-politician is banking on.| Latest India Story Coverage | Frontline | Frontline
Political patronage shields serial offenders as West Bengal campuses turn into hubs of fear, violence, and impunity.| Frontline
Samik Bhattacharya takes charge as West Bengal BJP president amid infighting and a shrinking base. The challenge is structural.| Latest News from The Hindu Frontline | Frontline
After the Pahalgam terror attack, India’s suspension of the Indus Waters Treaty marks a seismic shift in South Asia’s hydro-politics, exposing both countries to new risks of ecological collapse, food insecurity, and deepening mistrust.| Frontline
Nitish Kumar, Bihar’s political veteran, faces declining health, shifting alliances, and a resurgent RJD in the 2025 election. Can he pull off one last win| Frontline
In this interview, scholar Anand Teltumbde discusses the political misuse of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar’s legacy, the dangers of idol worship, the truth behind the Indian Constitution, and how both the BJP and Congress have distorted Ambedkar’s progressive ideals.| Frontline