The Trump show

United States President Donald Trump turns a blind eye to the Narendra Modi regime’s handling of the Delhi violence as the two sides seal their military partnership and go ahead with bilateral military purchases.

SCARRED & SCARED

Frontline walks through the violence-hit areas in North East Delhi, where all that remains after the acts of hate are wounded bodies and psyches.

Woes of the wounded

When the public health services and the law and order machinery failed to rise to the occasion, community hospitals with limited resources stood as beacons of hope against the unjust system.

Global concern

The United Nations human rights body intervenes forcefully against the violence in Delhi, and Western and Muslim countries raise serious concern about the Indian government’s recent actions.

IN THE NAME OF HONOUR

The spurt in the number of “honour killings” in Tamil Nadu in recent years is a stark indicator of the growing clout of patriarchal caste groups.

A bastion breached

The Supreme Court overturns decades of patriarchal bias in the Indian Army to rule that women officers of the short service commission should be considered for permanent commissions.

Doha's Resilience

Qatar has suffered economically owing to the blockade imposed by Saudi Arabia, but it has responded to threats with diplomatic maturity. There are now signals that both countries are seeking a resolution.

The Curious Case Of Davinder Singh

The dramatic arrest of Davinder Singh, Deputy Superintendent in the Jammu and Kashmir Police, along with Islamist militants raises new questions about the murky relation between state actors and terrorism.

Smoke And Mirrors

The arrest of DSP Davinder Singh, who was travelling with militants, reawakens questions on his possible link with the 2001 Parliament House attack case.

Encounters With Reality

The news of Davinder Singh’s arrest brings a strange hope, of closure of wounds, for the besieged eight million people of Kashmir whose memories are alive with the past injustices of the Macchil, Chattisinghpora, Pathribal and Barakpora massacres.

Debris Of Democracy

The overarching impression gained from a march from Jammu to Srinagar is that the people are hit hard by anguish, a sense of betrayal, uncertainty, loss of rights, financial distress and lack of accountability on the part of the authorities.

Targeted violence

The main targets of the masked assailants were Dalit and Muslim students and those with Left affiliation.

Spontaneous up surge

The government, in spite of the growing countrywide opposition to the CAA, takes a defiant stand.

Roots of a struggle

The JNU students’ protest against a recent massive hike in fees is part of a larger movement against the privatisation of higher education.

Post-democratic state

A historically novel kind of state seems to be arising in many corners of the world, which combines elements derived selectively from the two classic forms of the capitalist state, the liberal and the fascist. India under Narendra Modi too may be moving in that direction.

Talking power

The policemen who assaulted students at Jamia Millia Islamia University were not out to disperse the protesters. They were showing Muslims that they were second-class citizens.

Policy disaster

With the BJP leaders speaking in multiple voices on the NPR and the proposed NRC and distrust mounting within its own ranks, the party’s strategy seems to be coming apart.

WHAT IS THE BJP UP TO?

The Centre’s brutal crackdown on the protests against the CAA is a naked assertion of the dispensation’s larger aim to fulfil the Sangh Parivar’s Hindutva objective by subverting all institutions founded on the Constitution and nurtured through its ideals and values.

PLAYING VICTIM

The sum total of U.S. President Donald Trump’s feverish defence against the impeachment inquiry is that the elites and the socialists are out to get him. It is also a part of his manifesto for re-election, which the House Democrats inexplicably seem to be aiding by supporting his military spending, and trade and social policies.

Reign of terror

The pro-majoritarian bias in the police action across Uttar Pradesh indicates an agenda to fan tension rather than diffuse it.

PEOPLE'S MARCH

Protests against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act and the National Register of Citizens have snowballed into a mass movement across India. Significantly, students are spearheading it in many places.

TREE OF LIFE

The baobab is revered in Africa and Madagascar as a sacred and mystical tree. Baobabs can live for more than a thousand years and are perhaps among the oldest living things on the planet.

Brutal country for women

The recent incidents of rape and murder in Hyderabad and Unnao highlight the alarming rise in violent crimes against women in a country that celebrates hyper-masculine nationalism and vows to protect the honour of Mother India.

Partition's unfinished business in Assam

The CAB is a major move to introduce into Indian citizenship laws a distinction between Hindu and Muslim immigrants. In the immediate context it translates into a selective faith-based amnesty for a large segment of people not included in the NRC in Assam.

Nowhere people

Two communities of Sri Lankan Tamils have been left out of the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill though they qualify on every count.

Fiery Reaction

The anti-CAB protest turns into a mass resistance,reviving the antiforeigner agitation in Assam.

Bengal's concerns

The CAB and the NRC have emerged as the two issues that will decide the political destiny of West Bengal.

Back-room politics

Unmindful of the opposition to the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill both inside and outside Parliament and despite the fact that the numbers should have been against it in the Rajya Sabha, the BJP-led government manages to get this controversial piece of legislation passed.

The BJP Loses The Power Game In Maharashtra

The BJP loses the power game in Maharashtra in the face of rare opposition unity and critical judicial intervention.

Trial And Error

The impeachment trial against President Donald Trump over Ukrainegate may end up hurting the Democratic Party because the Republi can controlled Senate, which has the final say in the proceedings, may well come to Trump’s rescue and hand him the advantage in the 2020 presidential election.