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#Books | Whatever happened to the #Kerala model? R. Mohan’s magisterial modern history of the State shows how a political laboratory once hailed by scholars slowly lost the plot. P. Vijaya Kumar writes. frontline.thehindu.com/books/kerala-d…

#RajKapoorAt100 | In #RajKapoor’s later cinema, innocence is no longer organic—it is a stylised deflection, a mask worn after the fall, not before it. Prathyush Parasuraman writes. frontline.thehindu.com/arts-and-cultu…

#Aviation | Just days after the #AhmedabadPlaneCrash, two #Boeing787 aircraft were forced to return to the port of departure following technical glitches, raising red flags & putting Boeing & the #Dreamliner under scrutiny again. RadhakrishnanRK, PhD. reports. frontline.thehindu.com/news/boeing-78…

#ClimateCrisis | While India has national & State-level #ClimateAction plans, none address climate-induced migration. A 2020 study by Climate Action Network South Asia projected that 45 million people in India could be forcibly displaced by 2050. vitasta writes. frontline.thehindu.com/environment/cl…

COMMENT | #Manusmriti was not excluded from the #DelhiUniversity syllabus for being casteist but for being controversial. Avoidance is not progress; it is just politics ducking debate. Apoorvanand अपूर्वानंद writes. frontline.thehindu.com/the-nation/edu…

My #longform essay for Frontline's #RajKapoor special issue. On the politics of the early RK era -- and our own. (It is long, so pick up a copy of the print magazine if you can! Of course it's also online, and Frontline is well worth subscribing to.)

#Environment | There seems to be a political tussle in #Mumbai over control of the #BMC in the drive against the #Mithi clean-up scam. Amey Tirodkar writes. frontline.thehindu.com/environment/mu…

#Aviation | The #AhmedabadAirCrash has prompted a flurry of activity at the Indian & international levels to figure out what went wrong & how to fix it. RadhakrishnanRK, PhD. reports. frontline.thehindu.com/news/boeing-78…

Launched in 2011, the #Boeing787 Dreamliner was hailed for its fuel efficiency & long-range capabilities. However, #Boeing’s record over the past decade has been marred by crises that point to systemic failures in design, production & corporate culture. frontline.thehindu.com/news/air-india…

#RajKapoorAt100 | #RajKapoor’s films dressed up socialism for the big screen—but the class line was clear: the elite still got the starring roles. M.K. Raghavendra writes. frontline.thehindu.com/arts-and-cultu…

The shadow war between #Israel & #Iran has erupted into a full-blown confrontation. And its consequences—nuclear, political & humanitarian—will unfold in weeks, months & possibly years to come. Iftikhar Gilani writes. frontline.thehindu.com/news/israel-ai…

Notably, all this devastation happened before the monsoon arrived in north-east India. #Assam’s flood crisis remains dire, with more than 2.6 lakh people affected, and Lakhimpur, Cachar & Sribhumi among the worst hit. Rajkamal Goswami writes. frontline.thehindu.com/environment/as…

The theatre of the bizarre refuses to quit Imphal. What is clear is that #ArambaiTenggol is attempting a shapeshift, and going by what transpired in #Manipur in recent weeks, the group appears to be succeeding. Greeshma Kuthar writes. frontline.thehindu.com/politics/manip…

#ManiTalk | Nuclear powers cannot afford the luxury of war, writes #ManiShankarAiyar. India & Pakistan must know that escalation between nuclear states is anything but deterrence: The world wants dialogue, not a South Asian Sarajevo. frontline.thehindu.com/columns/india-…

#CaseInPoint | Those criticising or even trolling #reservation often reduce it to arithmetic—a missed seat, a lost mark, etc. But what they overlook in doing so is the architecture of exclusion that has shaped this inequity. Saurav Das writes. frontline.thehindu.com/columns/transg…

#Europeside | Two people-powered initiatives to break #Israel’s blockade of #Gaza are enabling Europe-wide movement for #Palestine. Susan Ram writes. frontline.thehindu.com/columns/europe…

#MindOfTheLife | #UmarKhalid says he has lost his optimism, and one cannot blame him; the way the government stubbornly refuses to grant him bail makes it clear that he is to be kept in jail so long as PM Narendra Modi is in power. Aditya Sinha writes. frontline.thehindu.com/columns/umar-k…

#RajKapoorAt100 | Shailendra, fondly called Pushkin & Kavi Raj, wrote the theme songs for every #RajKapoor film from Barsaat in 1949 to Mera Naam Joker in 1970. Ashutosh writes. frontline.thehindu.com/arts-and-cultu…

#SumAndSubstance | India’s economy grew by 6.5% in FY25, marking the slowest annual expansion in four years & despite a strong Q4 performance, where there was a pick-up in construction, public administration & financial services. Mitali Mukherjee writes. frontline.thehindu.com/columns/india-…

WATCH | "India's interest is in seeing #IsraelIranConflict de-escalate," Navdeep Suri tells Nirupama Subramanian in a new episode of Latitude. The former Ambassador discusses the conflict's geopolitical consequences for West Asia at large & India in particular. youtube.com/watch?v=z0CO9O…