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Commercialisation has already done more damage to literature than AI: Tabish Khair

New Delhi, June 28 -- In Tabish Khair's recently published novelDrown All the Refugees(HarperCollins India), the narrator shouts "Drown all the refugees" at a crowded literary gathering as the novel o... Read More


Healing business

New Delhi, June 28 -- Like most of us, I am part of several school, college, and neighbourhood WhatsApp groups. Apart from politics and civic issues, the one unfailing subject that attracts intense, a... Read More


The power and peril of religious mass politics

New Delhi, June 27 -- Imperial powers combine against a West Asian state in the righteous language of security. The state is weakened and humiliated, unable to answer in proportion to the injury it fe... Read More


The Aravallis bleed while committees argue over definitions

New Delhi, June 27 -- Protecting the Aravalli mountain range from mining has been mired in a confusing welter of committees seeking the accurate definition of a mountain range. Under scrutiny is the l... Read More


Cheese, chaos, and change

New Delhi, June 27 -- Dear Reader, A few nights ago, I had a sudden burst of anxiety at 3 am. As I gorged on cheese in front of the open refrigerator to soothe it, I had a vision of myself as Agneta ... Read More


Anatomy of an implosion

New Delhi, June 27 -- West Bengal politics is going through a particularly unusual phase-one that can even be construed as bizarre. Never has the scenario in the opposition benches in the State Assemb... Read More


Maharashtra's opposition disoriented as BJP tightens grip on the State

New Delhi, June 27 -- Uddhav Thackeray has lost six of his nine MPs from the Lok Sabha to Eknath Shinde's faction of Shiv Sena. This was the second major blow for Uddhav after losing both the governme... Read More


How NEP broke Constitution's promise of universal education

New Delhi, June 27 -- The leak of centralised NEET examination papers, the chaotic conduct of the CUET examination for admission to central universities, and the shambles of the on-screen marking syst... Read More


Bharat, Bhagat, Bihar

New Delhi, June 26 -- Dear Reader, The death in Bihar of Bharat Bhushan Tiwari, a 28-year-old from Bilauti village, Shahpur police station, in Bhojpur district, in a police encounter on the morning o... Read More


Frontline's Mission Manipur podcast wins WAN-IFRA award

New Delhi, June 26 -- Frontline won the Bronze award in the "Best Use of Audio" category at the WAN-IFRA Digital Media Awards South Asia 2026 for Mission Manipur hosted by Greeshma Kuthar, an original... Read More