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May: Artwork by Aranya : Today’s politics has gone beyond the liberal dream of reconciliation. The divide is sharpening. The antagonism of today is clear. There are clear political questions raised in front of today’s youth and we have to make some choices.

Where Are The Young Turks?

PTI/ S.Gopakumar : Preparations for Kerala local body election

All Eyes On The Capital As Kerala Begins Local Body Elections

BY N.K. Bhoopesh

Animikh chakrabarty : Border across Kali river
India nepal border

Nepal's New Banknote: A Quiet Rebellion Against India's Overreach

BY Brabim Karki

IMAGO / NurPhoto : People are receiving rations at a temporary camp on the outskirts of Kolkata, India, on February 4, 2024 (Representative Image)

Government Deleted 2.49 Crore Ration Cards In Five Years; The Story Behind The Numbers

BY Priyanka Tupe

Ariana Cubillos : President Nicolas Maduro waves a Venezuelan flag during a swearing-in event for government-organized community committees at the presidential palace in Caracas, Venezuela, Monday, Dec. 1, 2025.

US Escalation In Venezuela Fits Pattern Of Regime Change Wars In Latin America

BY R Viswanathan

Rupa Publications : Cover of the book

The Truth Of War: A Poem On Humanity’s Shared Loss

BY Richa Tilokani

IMAGO / SOPA Images; Representative image : Kolkata skyline

The Overbridge People: A City That Refused to See

BY Dr Swapan Samanta

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Kulsoom Faiz : Way to Dargah of Qutubuddin Bakhtiyar Kaki

Culture & Society

Politics of Petals: When A Secular Festival Becomes Inconvenient

BY Kulsoom Faiz

Book Cover

A Tale of Migrant Childhoods from Tamil Nadu to Malaya | Excerpt from Crossings

BY Sunil Amrith

Cover of 'Cinema and the Indian National Emergency'

Cinema And The Emergency: What A New Book Reveals About Censorship, Propaganda and Resistance

BY Dr. Aftab Husain

Meena Aadhav/ AITUC : Domestic workers in Nashik launched protest for saving trees in Nashik

Climate and Environment

Why Are Domestic Workers Protesting to Save Trees in Nashik?

BY Priyanka Tupe

Source: IMAGO / had fotos : Shahi Idgah mosque Keshav Dev temple, Mathura, Uttar Pradesh

Lessons From Ayodhya: Change In Muslim Approach To Kashi, Mathura Cases

BY Rasheed Kidwai

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Russian President Vladimir Putin during a meeting, in New Delhi.

Modi-Putin Strengthen Ties As India Balances Washington & Moscow

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Russian President Vladimir Putin

Putin’s India Visit: A New Chapter In The 'Special & Privileged' Partnership

BY Outlook News Desk

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How The Massive Flight Cancellation Crisis Came To Be

No-Go For IndiGo: How The Massive Flight Cancellation Crisis Came To Be

BY Snehal Srivastava

Illustration: Vikas Thakur : The political shift from the language of non-Brahmins to Dravidian is an important step in reclaiming the primacy of the non-Brahmin self, but whether such formulations escape the category ‘non-Brahmin’ remains an enduring problem.

Periyar’s Influence: The Meaning Of Mariadhai

BY Sundar Sarukkai

| Photo: Indira Kumar : Happy Together: Sukumaar and Elakkiya’s was a self-respect marriage, a union inspired by Periyar’s self-respect marriage movement

Self Respect Marriage: When Sukumaar Met Elakkiya

BY Priyanka Tupe

Zuma Press Wire : The U.S Navy Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Winston S. Churchill, left, patrols with the Guyana Defence Force Defiant-class patrol vessel GDFS Shahous, right, during counter narcotics operations, November 22, 2025 in the Caribbean Sea

Is The US ‘War on Drugs’ A Smokescreen To Pressurise Venezuela?

BY Avantika Mehta

vikram sharma : A Stone Crushing Unit Operating In NCR Despite GRAP III Restrictions

From Dust Till Dawn: The Aravalli–Delhi Pollution Cycle

BY Anwiti Singh

SURESH K PANDEY : Sonu Kumar's mother sits in her house with the martyred photo of the her son on the wall.

Indian Men In Ukraine War; Families Search For Those On The Frontline

BY Avantika Mehta

Abner Fernandes : spoiled fruit by Vasudhaa Narayanan is on view till 20 December at Fulcrum, Mumbai

Art and museums

Portrait Of The Female Body’s Healing And Homecoming

BY Saundarya Jain

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Amazon : Cover of 'The Dravidian Pathway' attached as image

Forging A Horizontal Dravidian-Tamil Solidarity | Excerpt From The Dravidian Pathway

BY Vignesh Rajahmani

Illustration: Vikas Thakur

How The War On Drugs Punishes The Poor

BY Vijay Prashad

IMAGO : Russia, Primorye Territory. - Russia s President Vladimir Putin (L), India s Prime Minister Narendra Modi (3rd L), Russia s Industry and Trade Minister Denis Manturov (4th L), Rosneft CEO and Management Board Chairman Igor Sechin (3rd R) and Russia s Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov (R) visit the Zvezda Shipyard in the town of Bolshoy Kamen on the sidelines of the 2019 Eastern

Economic Agenda Set To Dominate India-Russia Summit

PTI : The Shaktipeeth Highway, announced as a major infrastructure push, aims to create a seamless north–south corridor connecting Nagpur to Goa via Latur, Beed, Osmanabad, Kolhapur, and the Western Ghats.

Maharashtra Farmers Revolt Against Shaktipeeth Highway Plan: ‘Not An Inch Of Our Land’

BY Jinit Parmar

PTI Photo : Coimbatore: Two fans of MG Ramachandran (MGR), former Chief Minister of Tamilnadu, ferry his life-size poster through a street to mark his 25th death anniversary in Coimbatore on Monday.

My Hero, My Leader: Deification In Dravidian Politics

| AP/Vladimir Smirnov : India has all but stopped the lifting of discounted Russian oil following Trump’s blunt warning to do so or face the consequence. Yet despite the drastic reduction of Russian oil imports the 50 per cent tariff on Indian imports remains in place.

India–Russia Summit: Two Powers Reaffirm Ties Amid A Shifting Global Order

IMAGO / Design Pics Editorial : Girls In Uniform Walking Down The Street Together; Sathyamangalam, Tamil Nadu, India.

Dalit Women And Gender Justice: The Lasting Impact Of Periyar In Tamil Nadu

BY Ashlin Mathew

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Illustration: Saahil : The Dravidian movement emerged with a clear purpose: to challenge what it saw as the Union government’s growing drive to centralise power.

How Tamil Nadu Challenges BJP's Narrative of Cultural Hegemony

BY N.K. Bhoopesh

Artwork by Trotsky Marudu Maruthappan

Inside Tamil Nadu’s Ideological War: Dravidian Politics vs BJP’s Hindutva Push

BY Snigdhendu Bhattacharya

Muslim Women

Divorced Muslim Woman Can Recover Dower And Dowry: Supreme Court

BY Avantika Mehta

Imago/HT : Andhra Pradesh CM N Chandrababu Naidu meets Chief Sustainability Strategy Officer, LG Chem, Yunjo Ko in Visakhapatnam (ANI)

Big Money, Bigger Questions in Andhra’s Investment Push

BY N.K. Bhoopesh

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