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Incipient Maharashtra Model
The controversy over electoral votes apart, the Mahayuti won as it recalibrated with ground-level mobilisation, alarmed by the results of the Lok Sabha elections, while the Maha Vikas Aghadi lost due to its ‘business as usual’ attitude
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December 21, 2024
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The Silent Wave
How the Sangh Parivar, the silent workers of Hindutva, turned the tide in BJP's favour
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December 21, 2024
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All For One, One For All?
Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis faces tremendous challenges of managing competing interests and rising ambitions of allied partners
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December 21, 2024
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Love in Bombay
In a city continuously grappling for space, lovers have found their own pockets of expression jostling against one another
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December 11, 2024
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Unscripted Moments
Street photography is all about finding the extraordinary in the ordinary, one candid moment at a time
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December 11, 2024
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Sambhal Files
An engineered silence weighs heavily on the stillness of the empty streets in the centuries-old town of Sambhal, Uttar Pradesh, where clashes with police over yet another 'mandir-masjid' dispute led to the deaths of local Muslim men
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December 11, 2024
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A State of Difference
What is about the Adivasis of Jharkhand that prevents the saffron lotus from blooming or even taking root, unlike in the Adivasi-majority seats of Chhattisgarh and Odisha where the BJP did exceedingly well in the past few years?
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December 11, 2024
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BJP Trumps Thackeray's Sena
The tables have turned on the original harbingers of communal politics in Maharashtra
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December 11, 2024
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Verses of Witnessing
The most imaginative chronicles of Mumbai's \"spirit\" come to us from the city's poets
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December 11, 2024
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Walking Through the Homes
Chandni Chowk is being usurped by a redevelopment model that will wipe out its unique blend of history, culture and commerce
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December 11, 2024
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Cost of Living, Price of Loving
In Mumbai's Kamathipura, the business of sex fails to keep up with the profits of real estate
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December 11, 2024
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A Taste of History
A delectable food walk in Old Delhi uncovers layers of history
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December 11, 2024
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Dramatis Personae
Comparing an actor's struggles in Delhi and Mumbai maps out the differing cultures of two disparate cities
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December 11, 2024
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My Name is Delhi
VISITORS have been coming to meet me from eternity, even when I didn’t have a name. There are so many secrets that hide in my bosom, though some have been uncovered.
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December 11, 2024
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Clothing Codes
The language of clothing is the shorthand of a city. In Mumbai, practicality has always been the dress code
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December 11, 2024
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Circular/Narrow
Delhi is class. Mumbai is cool. But which one is better? The debate continues
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December 11, 2024
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Vertical Limit
You lose your city if you refuse to venture into the unfamiliar to find the familiar
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December 11, 2024
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Lutyens' Complex
CLIMATE change will likely make the Delhi-Mumbai comparison moot because one will burn and the other will drown. For millions of working people in these two cities, the treadmill of making ends meet, making rent and making it to work on time, makes competing claims to cosmopolitanism feel like nakhra, the narcissism of an English-speaking middle class with time to spare and points to score.
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December 11, 2024
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Swagger Vs Sass
A glamorous show reignites the Delhi-Mumbai debate. Who wins?
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December 11, 2024
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The Lush Socialite
After her debut in Fabulous Lives Vs Bollywood Wives, Delhi's Shalini Passi-philanthropist, influencer, Bollywood celebrity and self-care divawho gives little boxes of herbal dust to her friends, is now in the mass eye. Fair or unfair, deal with her
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December 11, 2024
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Trump, Up And Charging
'Many countries are nervous about Donald Trump returning to power, but India is not one of them'
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December 01, 2024
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Post and Past the Oil in Azerbaijan
As the UN climate conference takes place in Baku, Azerbaijan traces the history of the hydrocarbon industry through the lens of postage stamps
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December 01, 2024
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Bhutto's Nehru Story
Nehru's principle of \"compromise and argument\" remains the only workable formula for South Asian leaders
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December 01, 2024
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Breathless on Bachchan
Cédric Dupire's documentary The Real Superstar is an irreverent, experimental archive of Amitabh Bachchan's life and his stardom
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December 01, 2024
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The Anaphora to Zeugma of the Queen's English
Shashi Tharoor's book is a logophile's candy shop, full of fun, surprises and insights
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December 01, 2024
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The Wind Knocked
THE wind knocked on the door. Hesitantly. Wanting to be let in. It had heard the murmuring of the flames. And knew that there was a fire. The wind sought shelter.
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December 01, 2024
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The Way Home
“We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection. Something closed must retain our memories, while leaving them their original value as images. Memories of the outside world will never have the same tonality as those of home and, by recalling these memories, we add to our store of dreams; we are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.”—Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space
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December 01, 2024
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The War Artist
Cartoonist and journalist Joe Sacco is in search of the truths distorted by conventional narratives
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December 01, 2024
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Mining Adivasi Votes
If the BJP manages to win Jharkhand, it will be the third mineral-rich state after Odisha and Chhattisgarh that will fall into the party's kitty
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December 01, 2024
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Unequal Republic
Political parties make promises of equal represention to women, but patriarchy continues to dominate electoral democracy
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