As #JusticeVarma moves the #SupremeCourt against the inquiry panel's report, read Saurav Das's piece about the #fire, the #cash, and the #questions that still remain unanswered. frontline.thehindu.com/columns/yashwa…

#art | The name #SafdarHashmi and terms like “street #theatre” or “#working class” have very specific resonances for the likes of us who grew up in the #1980s and #1990s. Interview by Amborish Roychoudhury and Udayan Ghosh frontline.thehindu.com/arts-and-cultu…

Have been thinking about ugly things for a while—Balenciaga crocs, Labubus, Ambani wedding anniversary celebrations. This edition's Counter Culture column is about how we have even turned ugliness into a commodity, an aspiration. For Frontline frontline.thehindu.com/columns/ambani…

NEWS ANALYSIS | #Bihar’s SIR pushes burden of proof onto the poor, writes Soni Mishra. By sidelining the Supreme Court's Lal Babu Hussein judgment, the #ECI is forcing nearly 3 crore voters to prove citizenship from scratch. frontline.thehindu.com/news/election-…

#FromTheSidelines | Ahead of the Assembly election, #Bihar braces for mass voter disenfranchisement fears and a high-stakes succession battle. Saba Naqvi writes. frontline.thehindu.com/columns/bihar-…

NEWS ANALYSIS | #Bihar’s migrant workers, a high percentage electorate, are stuck: they cannot travel home to submit forms or access online options from afar. Soni Mishra writes. frontline.thehindu.com/the-nation/bih…

#PublicHealth | #LeelaSahu matters to public healthcare in rural India, writes vitasta. The young pregnant influencer’s fight for a road speaks volumes about the country’s broken rural health system. frontline.thehindu.com/the-nation/pub…

#ManiTalk | India’s #Pakistan problem is really about Pakistan & #China together, writes Mani Shankar Aiyar. Our strategic choice is between a one-front war with Pakistan & China or two-front diplomacy to resolve issues with both. frontline.thehindu.com/columns/india-…

NEWS ANALYSIS | Why did #JagdeepDhankhar quit? The timing, the tone, and the silences that followed his abrupt resignation raise many curious questions. Soni Mishra writes. frontline.thehindu.com/news/dhankhar-…

This fortnight in Frontline: POWER PLAY | #WestAsia's deepening fault lines. Read everything from our issue here: frontline.thehindu.com Cover illustration by the illustrious Satish Acharya!

Punjab ’95’ isn't just a film. It's a reckoning with a suppressed truth. Spoke to director Honey Trehan about censorship, memory, and the story of Jaswant Singh Khalra, human rights defender silenced by the state. In Frontline latest issue, edited excerpts of interview

#WestAsia | The crisis in #Gaza is the latest convulsion in a region disfigured by colonial cartography & sustained by oil-fuelled Western ambition. Vaishna Roy writes in Editor's Note. frontline.thehindu.com/world-affairs/…

#ColumnAlert 🚨 For the eighth ‘Case In Point’ for Frontline, I ask whether we are heading from “too much democracy” to “too much speech”, in light of Supreme Court’s new-found fancy for issuing “guidelines” on free speech. I raise five key points. Also... Link-

The attempt to impose #Hindi in #Maharashtra's primary schools has not only united the estranged Thackeray cousins but also triggered a linguistic assertion that could echo beyond the State's borders. Amey Tirodkar writes. frontline.thehindu.com/politics/hindi…

with bihar headed for polls, Saba Naqvi speaks to Dipankar on the state’s legacy of resistance, nitish kumar’s decline, and the left’s strong local strength. shot and produced by Vedaant Lakhera and me for Frontline youtu.be/q1ksBZ1SYn0

If the SIR in Bihar is not stayed, it is going to become an all-India model for future polls. This will rewrite the electoral rolls and rules and create a permanently disenfranchised group of second grade citizens. My conversation with Saba Naqvi on SIR. youtu.be/q1ksBZ1SYn0?si…

#JagdeepDhankhar’s sudden exit as Vice President & presiding officer of Rajya Sabha is, however, accompanied by the irony of Opposition parties now expressing sympathy with him & wondering what could have led to his abrupt resignation. | Soni Mishra frontline.thehindu.com/news/dhankhar-…

#Delhi | Bulldozers keep returning to working-class settlements while courts prioritise property & elites expand their grip on the capital. Vedaant Lakhera writes. frontline.thehindu.com/social-issues/…

WATCH | "There has always been a nexus of power in India where cricket & politics have met. Sometimes it’s been useful—it can move roadblocks in a country like India, which is pretty good at creating roadblocks." #GideonHaigh spoke to Aditya Mani Jha. frontline.thehindu.com/interviews/ind…

#Mumbai’s local rail network—an ageing, overstretched system—has claimed over 66,000 lives in the last two decades. Of these, 44,349 deaths occurred on Central Railway routes & 25,082 on the Western line. Amey Tirodkar writes. frontline.thehindu.com/politics/mumba…