As metro corridors rise and bullet train tunnels bore through hardy landscape, the Mahayuti alliance is asking whether the Centre is keeping pace with the state’s infrastructure ambitions.
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Jinit is a senior correspondent writing about international affairs, art, culture, current affairs, politics, and the environment from Mumbai.
The BJP’s entry into serious electoral politics in Maharashtra wasn’t a sudden explosion; it was a slow, deliberate stitching of social fractures.
BY Jinit Parmar 3 June 2026
Walking through the exhibition, that feeling becomes visible in different ways. Sculptures reflect the viewer back at themselves. Paintings move between history and present-day politics. Symbols that seem familiar begin to shift meaning when placed beside contemporary anxieties.
BY Jinit Parmar 31 May 2026
Activists at Mumbai’s Azad Maidan protest the Uttar Pradesh government’s use of the National Security Act against journalist Satyam Verma and student leader Aakriti Chaudhary, highlighting alleged illegal arrests, harsh working conditions, wage disparities and calls to repeal the ‘draconian’ NSA.
BY Jinit Parmar 19 May 2026
The Nashik Municipal Corporation, which had initially agreed to Rs 1,000 crore cost-sharing arrangement, has now cited financial constraints as the reason it can no longer sustain its original commitment.
BY Jinit Parmar 14 May 2026
For eighteen days each year, a sleepy Tamil Nadu village becomes the stage for one of the world's most extraordinary festivals. One photographer went there to document it. He left with a transformed soul.
BY Jinit Parmar 9 May 2026
First-time candidates in the 2026 Assembly elections saw mixed results: two won, four stood second. West Bengal and Tamil Nadu delivered debutant victories, while Assam’s youngest candidate and Kerala’s aspirant made their mark despite trailing.
BY Jinit Parmar 4 May 2026
The farmers, rallied by the Agriculture Rescue Struggle Committee and the Anti-Shaktipeeth Action Committee, have drawn a clear red line: no surveys on their fertile lands.
BY Jinit Parmar 30 April 2026
The threat came Wednesday from Ali Abdollahi, head of Iran’s military central command centre, in a statement carried by Iranian state television.
BY Jinit Parmar 15 April 2026
This transformative retelling of the widely known tales of the demon corpse and King Vikramaditya offer both suspense and unexpected warmth in equal measure.
BY Jinit Parmar 12 April 2026
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