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The Unpeople
Assam's electoral issues are many: eviction drives, razed lives and identity crises
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April 01, 2026
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Culture Vulture
The tragedy of 2026 is that both the major parties have found it easier to fight over \"culture\" rather than \"capital\"
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April 01, 2026
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How Can We Eat Such Expensive Food Every Day?
SUJIT Bhokta had just stepped out after eating lunch at a small stall outside Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences hospital in Ranchi.
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April 01, 2026
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A Delayed Phone Call
Why did it take so very long for India to find its voice in the context of the multipronged attack on Iran?
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April 01, 2026
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Eyes Wide Shut
It is not enough to drown-swim in our anguish at what is being unleashed in so many unequal wars around us
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April 01, 2026
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Text Message
When the politics of the day seeks to bring its divisive agenda to the classroom and poison the minds of future generations with propaganda, only the court can intervene to preserve our constitutional values
6 min |
April 01, 2026
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What's Up, Guv?
Federal relations, rather than being cooperative, have turned conflictual, and since the last decade or so, become mutually manipulating
4 min |
April 01, 2026
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Red Eyes
Pragmatism has often preceded ideology in Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan's decision-making in Left-ruled Kerala
8 min |
April 01, 2026
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How Long Will We Survive on Bananas and Bread?
MAYURI Pate, 59, a domestic worker in Mumbai, doesn't know about the ongoing war between the US and Israel on Iran, she doesn't know about geopolitics or the global energy crisis.
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April 01, 2026
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GUJARAT BECOMES THE SEMICONDUCTOR HUB OF INDIA
When the Vikram lander of the Chandrayaan 3 Mission touched down on the Moon, it did so by making precise, real-time decisions on its own.
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April 01, 2026
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Unmappable, Unforgettable Places
This collection of essays is a testimony to cities that devolve, disappear, and reappear as altered landscapes, haunted by the histories they can no longer hold
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April 01, 2026
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WAR IS NEVER ELSEWHERE
A coin is a small thing-until it isn't.
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April 01, 2026
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Fight for Stalingrad
With shifting alliances, internal crises within established parties, and new political actors seeking space, the coming election could test the resilience of the Dravidian political order
8 min |
April 01, 2026
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Ashmita Politics
Does being a Bengali still feed into stereotypes?
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April 01, 2026
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MUSICIAN'S Diary
My story with music started in a period in Iranian society during which people were divided.
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April 01, 2026
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Hotel Industry will Bear the Brunt
FOR Ridhima, a young girl from Chopal, the war in West Asia had never been a matter of concern.
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April 01, 2026
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All That Gas
With lives being disrupted across India due to the gas shortage linked to the ongoing West Asia conflict, long queues can be spotted outside LPG distributers in some neighbourhoods. Daily-wage workers, homemakers, street vendors and restaurant owners line up, hoping to secure a cooking gas cylinder. Others turn to the informal market, where cylinders are reportedly being sold at double or triple their regulated prices
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April 01, 2026
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You Shall Not Take the Name of the LORD Your God in Vain'
Did Judas Iscariot-who betrayed Jesus-have God on his side? Bob Dylan asked 63 years ago. The US, Israel and Iran's invocation of religious war brings that question back
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April 01, 2026
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Dead Silence
Have the mandarins in South Block misread the US-Israel war against Iran?
6 min |
April 01, 2026
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Squeezed Out
India's LPG system is efficient in normal times but fragile in crises
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April 01, 2026
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I Don't Know How to Cook for Eid
THE family of Zeenat Rashid has been following an unusual routine after the joint military strikes by the US and Israel on Iran.
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April 01, 2026
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Turbulence in Tehran
To ignore or lampoon the attempts in Iran against the rule of clerics shrinks the space for the anti-imperialist Left to challenge other political ideologies, such as Hindutva
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March 21, 2026
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Not in Our Name
HE should have first corrected his own vices and then given us advice”.
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March 21, 2026
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Epic Faux Pas
For Iran, survival is victory. The martyrdom of Khamenei has had a rallying effect, and its strategy is built on domestic civil-military endurance and regional-global deterrence
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March 21, 2026
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'Winter Will One Day be Past'
This book is a true testament of friendship and an act of solidarity
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March 21, 2026
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‘Nolite Te Bastardes Carborundorum (Don't let the bastards grind you down)
\"There is more than one kind of freedom,\" said Aunt Lydia. \"Freedom to and freedom from.
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March 21, 2026
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Zan. Zendegi. Azadi
Are Trump and Netanyahu really interested in liberating Iranian women through this war?
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March 21, 2026
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Bruno ki Betiyaan
Whether future regimes sustain, reshape, or compete with Bihar's maternal welfare architecture will determine how deeply Nitish Kumar's political legacy shapes the state's democratic future
4 min |
March 21, 2026
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Capitalism Redux
The Global South must learn from the West Asian crisis that the persistence of neoliberalism alongside hyper-nationalism leads to brutality and genocidal war
4 min |
March 21, 2026
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The JNU Files
The immediate backdrop to the recent showdown at Jawaharlal Nehru University lay in earlier tensions
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