It is a few days after the BJP taking over power in West Bengal, and I am strolling down the streets of Jadavpur in south Kolkata. In this area, there is no celebration of the kind shown on television ...

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The BJP's push to remove Urdu from Kashmir's recruitment rules threatens a language central to the region's governance, ...

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Mohammad Rasoulof’s The Seed of the Sacred Fig captures Iran’s 2022 uprising through one loyalist family’s collapse. A vital ...

Modi urges Indians to cut gold, travel, and cooking oil use. But the real crisis is capital outflows, joblessness, and a ...

Veteran historian Romila Thapar on Hindutva’s control over history, the assault on pluralism, and India’s democratic drift.

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As Congress and Left celebrate Mamata’s fall, BJP tightens its grip through manipulation and polarisation. Can Opposition ...

SC orders forensic probe into Biren Singh tapes as Manipur slides into hardened buffer borders. Forest law and NRC politics ...

Bennurakar’s films on Sivakasi’s child labour and other marginalised lives refused spectacle and moral posturing. They ...