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

BY Brabim Karki

IMAGO / SOPA Images; Representative image : Kolkata skyline

The Overbridge People: A City That Refused to See

BY Dr Swapan Samanta

Kulsoom Faiz : Way to Dargah of Qutubuddin Bakhtiyar Kaki

Culture & Society

Politics of Petals: When A Secular Festival Becomes Inconvenient

BY Kulsoom Faiz

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

Rupa Publications : Cover of the book

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

BY Richa Tilokani

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

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

BY Sunil Amrith

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

Modi-Putin Strengthen Ties As India Balances Washington & Moscow

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

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

| 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

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

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

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Illustration: Vikas Thakur

How The War On Drugs Punishes The Poor

BY Vijay Prashad

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

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

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

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

PTI : Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren

Jharkhand In Flux: Hemant Soren's Alliance Dilemma

BY Md Asghar Khan

| 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

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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

Imago/HT : Karnataka Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu meets Chief Sustainability Strategy Officer, LG Chem, Yunjo Ko Visakhapatnam, Nov 15 (ANI): Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu meets LG Chem, Chief Sustainability Strategy Officer, Yunjo Ko, on the sidelines of the CII Partnership Summit, in Visakhapatnam

Big Money, Bigger Questions in Andhra’s Investment Push

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

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

Imago/HT : Advocate participating preparation of Delhi Bar Council (BCD) election a day before election voting at Patiala House Court on March 20, 2025 in New Delhi, India

Where Are The Women In India’s State Bar Councils?

BY Avantika Mehta

ANI : Representational Image

Journalist's Home Razed: Fresh Debate On State Land Ownership in J&K

BY Ishfaq Naseem

NEW DELHI, INDIA - SEPTEMBER 27: Shaista, daughter of Mohammad Akhlaq Saifi with with CPI(M) politburo member Brinda Karat during a protest by AIDWA to get judgment in favor of the families of the victims of mob lynching at Jantar Mantar on September 27, 2018 in New Delhi, India. (Photo by Sanchit Khanna Hindustan Times) Shaista, Daughter Of Lynching Victim Mohammad Akhlaq Demands Justice For Lynching Victims.

In The 'New India' No One Lynched Mohammad Akhlaq

BY Mohammad Ali

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Khetri Trust : Bhopalgarh Fort, located in Khetri stands above the town. Khetri’s palaces were more than royal residences; they were hubs of cultural exchange.

Four Decades And Waiting: A Tale Of Betrayal And Injustice For Rajasthan's Khetri Trust

BY Jinit Parmar

Muslim Women

Divorced Muslim Woman Can Recover Dower And Dowry: Supreme Court

BY Avantika Mehta

| Photo: Subash Sagar : Faces of Tragedy: Chinnakannu shows the picture of his son

The Big Blind Spot: How Caste Still Shapes Tamil Nadu's Society

BY N.K. Bhoopesh

Saher Hiba : The protest sought to draw urgent attention to what organisers described as an ongoing humanitarian, constitutional and political crisis in Manipur.

‘Manipur Wants Peace’, Say Meitei Protesters At Jantar Mantar Over Ethnic Violence

BY Saher Hiba Khan

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