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Is it the end of the road for regional parties in India?

New Delhi, June 20 -- With the fall of Mamata Banerjee, the last of the major regional political warlords, the final chapter of an era has begun. The BJP's strategies-specifically deployed against reg... Read More


Muslim identity on the Hindi screen

New Delhi, June 20 -- Hindi cinema has long shaped the memories, culture, and emotions of generations of Indians. It has provided cultural representation, identity, and ideology to the nation. In Musl... Read More


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


Jai Bhim, Jai Jharkhand, and the JMM

New Delhi, June 19 -- On June 18, shortly after the conclusion of the Rajya Sabha election in Jharkhand, Chief Minister Hemant Soren posted a message on X congratulating the two newly elected members,... Read More


Carlo Ginzburg (1939-2026): The historian of hidden lives

New Delhi, June 19 -- Carlo Ginzburg died in Bologna on June 17, 2026. He was 87. The news arrived without fanfare, as it does with any serious thinker of late. He was the son of Leone Ginzburg-the an... 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