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ANY RESEMBLANCE TO ACTUAL EVENTS IS NOT COINCIDENTAL
INTERFAITH ROMANCE FICTION IN THE ERA OF LOVE JIHAD
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December 2025
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Manufacturing Legitimacy
How a Washington Post columnist laundered the Sangh's violent history
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December 2025
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DEATH of REPORTAGE
THE DISMANTLING OF OUTLOOK'S LEGACY
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December 2025
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FOG LIGHT
Samayantar's two-and-half-decade fight against the shrinking of Hindi's world
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December 2025
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THE FINE PRINT
ON 19 MARCH 2005, thousands came out on the streets of Udupi, in coastal Karnataka, to protest a gruesome incident that had shaken the region a week earlier.
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December 2025
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CHARACTER BUILDING
The enduring language of Indian streets
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December 2025
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THE CONVENIENT EVASIONS OF RAJDEEP SARDESAI
DRESSED IN A turban and white kurta pyjama, Narendra Modi sat in the passenger seat of a van crossing the Patan district of Gujarat, in September 2012. Next to him sat Rajdeep Sardesai, the founder-editor of the news channel CNN-IBN.
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December 2025
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Ahmed Kamal Junina: “Every class we hold is a defiant refusal to surrender”
A professor in Gaza on teaching during a genocide / Conflict
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December 2025
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Bangla Pride, Urdu Prejudice
The language wars have primed West Bengal for the RSS
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November 2025
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THE INTERVIEW
\"The people are naked before the government but the government is opaque to them\"
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November 2025
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HOW TO DROWN A STATE
A union-led dam board and BJP-ruled states watched as Punjab flooded
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November 2025
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MUSICAL CHAIRS
THE MANY BETRAYALS OF NITISH KUMAR
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November 2025
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NAMING TERROR
ON 22 APRIL, an armed group carried out a horrific, communally motivated act of terrorism, killing 26 Indian civilians, mostly tourists, at Pahalgam, in Jammu and Kashmir.
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November 2025
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Ideology and Incompetence
The Ladakh bloodshed is an outcome of the government treating its population as internal enemies/Politics
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November 2025
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REMEMBER MY NAME
THE TAWNA COLLECTIVE WAS BORN while sailing a canoe.
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November 2025
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Ehtesham Siddiqui: “I got my freedom but there is pain”
An accused in the 2006 Mumbai train bombings reflects on his exoneration
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October 2025
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Category Mistake
The Sonbhadra massacre and the violence of misclassification / Communities
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October 2025
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UNCERTAIN TERMS
THE QUESTIONS EMERGING FROM NEPAL'S GEN Z PROTESTS
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October 2025
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BLOOD on the TRACKS
Why nearly a hundred track maintainers die on the job every year
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October 2025
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Stranger than Fiction
Writing in the aftermath of the Police Action in Hyderabad
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October 2025
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KARNATAKA'S URBAN PROMISE: PRACTICAL PLANS FOR BETTER CITY LIFE
From secure housing layouts and restored lakes to continuous water supply, affordable canteens and improved mobility, Karnataka is reshaping the everyday fabric of city life.
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October 2025
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India's Conservative Revolution
Where the postcolonial Left meets the Hindu Right
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October 2025
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Type Caste
The Sangh's century of moulding men
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October 2025
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Catching Strays
Dogs become the latest target of India's mob mentality/Politics
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October 2025
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The Exquisite Art of Failure
An excerpt from Mother Mary Comes to Me
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October 2025
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Forced Concessions
In Tianjin, Modi again succumbed to Beijing's preferred terms/Politics
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October 2025
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Grace Banu: “Welfare measures don't empower my community, only rights do"
Why the struggle for transgender rights must evolve beyond tokenism / Politics
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September 2025
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Framing the Tide
Women in fishing communities author vital stories of labour, crisis and resilience
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September 2025
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Plan of Inaction
The designed irrelevance of the NITI Aayog
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September 2025
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Turning Back the Clock
The SIR threatens a century of progress in advancing voting rights
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