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Two decades of conditional rights and broken promises

New Delhi, June 19 -- On the morning of June 4, hundreds of tribal people in Maharashtra's Gadchiroli district travelled in trucks, tractors, autorickshaws, and motorcycles from their hamlets to the D... Read More


A promising reset between New Delhi and Dhaka goes south

New Delhi, June 19 -- Just months ago, a complete thaw in India-Bangladesh relations appeared possible. After the turbulence that followed Sheikh Hasina's fall from power in 2024 in an uprising, the e... Read More


The revolving-door republic

New Delhi, June 19 -- Rajiv Gandhi walked into Parliament on January 30, 1985, and described the problem with unusual bluntness. Political defections, he told the House, were "likely to undermine the ... Read More


It is not the end of Mamata: Sagarika Ghose

New Delhi, June 19 -- In this episode of Frontline Conversations, Sagarika Ghose, Rajya Sabha MP, Trinamool Congress, discusses the unprecedented political crisis facing the Trinamool Congress followi... Read More


West Asia's new regional order

New Delhi, June 18 -- Shortly after midnight on June 17, the sound of sirens cut through the streets of Tehran as reports emerged that US President Donald Trump and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian... Read More


Tulsi Gabbard's disclosure: US funded 120 biolabs in more than 30 countries

New Delhi, June 18 -- The COVID-19 pandemic transformed biological research from a specialised scientific pursuit into a subject of global political debate. High-containment laboratories, pathogen sur... Read More


'Dadagiri' democracy

New Delhi, June 18 -- A wrecking ball is being taken to the basic structure of electoral democracy in India. We have shamelessly crossed over to the dark side with many elected MPs acting in ways that... Read More


The dictatorial 'strong leader' is the consequence of bourgeois democracy

New Delhi, June 18 -- Bourgeois democracy, which is a democracy of political parties and the only kind of "working democracy" we have known until now, entails active politics for a very small percenta... Read More


In search of @Autumnshade

New Delhi, June 18 -- Almostafortnightago, an emailarrived. It wasinGmail,through which I had startedmy Twitter account (@autumnshade)back in 2007, and it said that theaccount-linkedemail addresshad b... Read More


Abdus Salam and the jihad of the pen

New Delhi, June 18 -- Abdus Salam was born on January 29, 1926, and died on November 21, 1996. The month of June is particularly significant in understanding his legacy. On June 9, 1968, he officially... Read More