Left-wing extremism is on the decline, but any let-up in counter-insurgency may see it re-emerge stronger
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The journey of demolished schools to vote-wale schools in the Naxal areas of Chhattisgarh
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Beyond Maoism and the Indian government’s punjiwadi development, Bastar’s Adivasis are realising that the fight is really between roti kapda makan and jal jangal jameen
From the shadows of conflict, Bastar's survivors call for a future of peace and dignity, challenging the status quo
The Maoist movement in India, also called the Naxalite movement, traces its origins to deep-seated socio-economic discontent among the marginalised communities, mainly tribal and landless labourers.
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Blaming Jharkhand for unbridled release of water through its DVC damns, CM Mamata Banerjee on Thursday said she was shutting Bengal's borders with the state for three days. The police reportedly stopped the entry of cargo vehicles travelling from Jharkhand to West Bengal at Duburdih Check Post near Maithon from around 7 pm on Thursday, leading to long queues of vehicles at the West Bengal-Jharkhand border on the Delhi-Kolkata national highway.
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BJP chief JP Nadda released its manifesto ahead of Haryana assembly polls on Thursday in Rohtak. The manifesto focuses on employment creation, education, healthcare, and more.
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Hezbollah said it had targeted several sites along the border with Katyusha rockets, including multiple air defence bases as well as the headquarters of an Israeli armoured brigade they said they’d struck for the first time.
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How different are the stories from those days of Emergency compared to the ones now?
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Gandhi’s principal legacy remains the systematic replacement of institutional governance with the vicious precedents of personalised rule
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Bhindranwale was able to get away with wrongdoings because ‘in the eyes of the Congress leadership in Delhi, Punjab had a Sikh problem since Independence’
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Indira Gandhi is dead and she cannot defend herself. But that doesn’t mean others can’t
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For many journalists, reporting in the volatile decade of the 1970s was both exciting and challenging
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Despite being under scrutiny during the Emergency, small journals like Himmat Weekly got around censorship by taking calculated risks
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Was the Emergency just a forerunner of what an authoritarian state could achieve?
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Bollywood has churned out a slew of biopics in the last decade, most of them formulaic. The latest among them, Kangana Ranaut-starrer Emergency, is yet to find a release date
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Political actors invoking the Emergency today would do well to remember the inheritance of Independence and the idea of India as a secular democratic republic, says Qurban Ali, son of former freedom fighter and Socialist leader Captain Abbas Ali
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The fractured mandate seen in 2014 was a continuation of the 2008 and 2002 poll results in Jammu and Kashmir
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When the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting reprimanded Netflix for IC 814, were they performing a governing function or a political one?
Devotion to pure gratuitous shock renders the Nithari killings-inspired film coldly impersonal and questionable
Actor-director Rajat Kapoor's adaptation of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov, Karamjale Brothers, retains the original’s story and spirit but unfolds in a hilarious, quasi-farcical tone
Comprising six plays and several open-air performances, the event — directed and performed by women — displayed stirring art and defiance
Devotion to pure gratuitous shock renders the Nithari killings-inspired film coldly impersonal and questionable
Actor-director Rajat Kapoor's adaptation of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov, Karamjale Brothers, retains the original’s story and spirit but unfolds in a hilarious, quasi-farcical tone
Comprising six plays and several open-air performances, the event — directed and performed by women — displayed stirring art and defiance
This slow burn sinks quickly under tired, hamstrung-by-dullness writing.
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Over the last few years, Kangana Ranaut has been an absolutist’s nightmare. A fine actor, who routinely sprays genocidal sermons, she has tested the most fair-minded folks.
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The Hema Committee Report, which exposed systemic misogyny in the Malayalam film industry, sprang from the poignant Women in Cinema Collective, where women fight for women
Bollywood has always been fascinated with India’s first woman Prime Minister, but pulling off nuanced portrayals of Indira Gandhi remains an elusive goal for Hindi films
Post-2014, Bollywood’s political films have been a bit too enamoured by the Emergency and the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. However, the trauma from these events is being used to funnel ideology
The Night Manager starring Anil Kapoor and Aditya Roy Kapur, has been nominated for the 2024 International Emmy Awards.
Kangana Ranaut-led Emergency got embroiled in a massive controversy after Sikh organisations accused it of misrepresenting the community by distorting facts.
Bollywood has churned out a slew of biopics in the last decade, most of them formulaic. The latest among them, Kangana Ranaut-starrer Emergency, is yet to find a release date
Police also added the POCSO (Protection of Children from Sexual Offences) Act to the FIR after identifying that Jani allegedly started assaulting the woman when she was still a minor.
Vidya Balan, who is a great admirer of Bharat Ratna M.S.Subbulakshmi, paid a photographic homage on the occasion of the 108th birth anniversary of the legendary singer.
The 76th Primetime Emmy Awards will be held on Sunday night. Here are the details of the venue, time and nominations.
The #MeToo movement in the Bengali film industry has ignited a new wave of scrutiny and sparked a wider conversation about misogyny, exploitation and power dynamics.
A blistering critique of Punjabi films, originally written in Punjabi in the ’70s, by the renowned poet Pash who would have turned 74 on September 9.
Emergency, which was scheduled to hit the screens on September 6, 2024, has been postponed due to controversies. The new release date is yet to be announced.
The Deposit Insurance and Credit Guarantee Corporation (DICGC) has launched Daava Soochak, an online tool for depositors to track the status of their claims
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