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From chai to chappal

New Delhi, Oct. 9 -- Dear Reader, The country's politics has been on the boil for some time, as the protest season comes back, not only in the national capital but elsewhere. After the student prote... Read More


Nobel Peace Prize honours Navi Pillay's fight for justice

New Delhi, Oct. 9 -- The 2026 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Navanethem "Navi" Pillay for her efforts to promote peace and international law. The Prize's press statement described Pillay as a person... Read More


The Veeramani case: Crime and cover-up

New Delhi, Oct. 9 -- "Final report not accepted. Further investigation is ordered. Further investigation shall be completed, or progress shall be reported in 4 weeks." This decisive rejection of the ... Read More


Garfield Sobers and the Caribbean stories cricket cannot tell alone

New Delhi, Oct. 9 -- The recent passing away of the Barbadian cricketing giant Garfield Sobers, days short of his 90th birthday, signifies not just a huge sporting loss but the disappearance of a Blac... Read More


Dreamy stillness, with a few scratches

New Delhi, Oct. 9 -- Maggie O'Farrell's new novel Land goes down a treat. I guzzled it with an avidity that bordered on greed. Around that time, I also watched Christopher Nolan's spectacular Odyssey.... Read More


Pakistan's global posturing at odds with domestic reality

New Delhi, Oct. 9 -- Pakistan is renowned for delivering one political surprise after another. Marred by several military coups, its political history is unique in that not a single Prime Minister has... Read More


Before Project Tiger, India's stamps made wildlife a national message

New Delhi, Oct. 8 -- The 1970s are widely considered the decade of ecological restoration in India. The Union government enacted the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972, and launched Project Tiger in 1973... Read More


Shadow boxing in protest land

New Delhi, Oct. 8 -- The most significant thing about Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) founder Abhijeet Dipke is not merely that he created a meme in May, led a movement in June, and forced a Ministerial r... Read More


Who will keep Kashmiri alive? | Onaiza Drabu

New Delhi, Oct. 8 -- In this episode of Frontline Conversations, anthropologist, translator and writer Onaiza Drabu discusses Kashmiri language, literature and cultural memory. Drawing on her edited v... Read More


Rise, fall, repeat

New Delhi, Oct. 8 -- The early signs of a nation's decline appear when it fails to provide essential services and security to its people. Once failure takes hold across every front, it leads irreversi... Read More