Kadambari Devi and Tagore’s Women: A Literary Debate
Frontlineby Shuma Raha27d ago
In 1884, Kadambari Devi, the wife of Rabindranath Tagore’s older brother Jyotirindranath, died by suicide.
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Frontlineby Vipul Anekant; Sanjay Kumar27d ago
With more than 80 per cent of ballots counted in Sweden’s general election held on September 13, the Scandinavian country’s opposition centre-left bloc is clinging to a razor-thin lead, projected...
Europe Heatwave Exposes the Global Climate Adaptation Gap
Frontlineby Samed Ağırbaş27d ago
Europe’s heatwave has made headlines across the world. And why would it not? It broke multiple temperature records, with Western Europe experiencing its warmest June on record, around 3C (37F)...
Can Trump build a new US order through Israel?
Frontlineby Ali Mamouri27d ago
For much of the post-Cold War period, the US enjoyed a degree of dominance in West Asia unmatched by any other external power.
RSS Global Outreach: Can Rebranding Change Its Image?
Frontlineby Anand Teltumbde AI Summary27d ago
Mohan Bhagwat’s recent global outreach tour to the US, Canada, and Britain, undertaken in the RSS’s centenary year, resembles a political theatre in which the protagonist seeks not to defeat its...
AI "Memes" and the Politics of Misogyny
Frontlineby Rituparna Banerjee27d ago
This week in India, crude AI-generated images revived a decades-old smear on Sonia Gandhi. It portrayed the 79-year-old Gandhi, former Congress president and sitting Rajya Sabha MP, as a “bar...
Smart Cities Mission: India’s Uneven Urban Transformation
Frontlineby Mohammad Ali27d ago
All major locations in Faridabad, be it the metro station, bus station, or the major four-way crossing, have an open waste dumping ground, boldly announcing the metropolis’ newly acquired “Smart...
India’s Urban Future Depends on Human Capital
Frontlineby Vasanth Srinivasan27d ago
The professor of economics says that India should embrace its urbanisation and accept that the growth of cities will enable its economy to grow and provide opportunity for millions of new workers.
Why Indian cities need universal accessibility
Frontlineby Sneha Visakha27d ago
What does it mean to be able? One may have a physical or sensory capacity, but whether that capacity translates into ability depends on the environment.
India’s Urban Climate Crisis: How Administrative Flaws and Governance Gaps Threaten Peri-Urban Resilience
Frontlineby Harini Nagendra; Arvind Lakshmisha27d ago
Every monsoon brings now-familiar scenes of disaster from urban India. One heavy spell of rain, and Bengaluru’s IT corridors are flooded, the underpasses in Delhi submerged, the Mumbai local trains...
India’s Waste Crisis Demands Institutional Synergies, Decentralized Planning, and Waste Reduction Beyond Swachh Bharat Mission
Frontlineby Bharati Chaturvedi27d ago
In 1994, Delhi produced about 3,500 tonnes of waste a day. Today, according to official data, it produces 13,000 tonnes a day.
BRICS 2026: Is the Dollar Losing Its Grip?
Frontlineby Tarun Agarwal28d ago
The 18th BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) Summit, held in New Delhi between September 12 and 13, 2026, was expected by many to mark the bloc’s transition from rhetoric to a...
MP/MLA Criminal Cases: 4,266 Still Pending in 2026
Frontlineby Soni Mishra AI Summary28d ago
The deeply troubling scenario of a growing number of lawbreakers entering the legislatures as lawmakers is what led the Supreme Court to pass an order on December 14, 2017, directing that special...
Vegetarian Fundamentalism and the Politics of Food in India
Frontlineby Ajaz Ashraf AI Summary28d ago
Decades ago, when I was earning my spurs at a newspaper, late journalist Mohan Ram recounted an anecdote of former Prime Minister Narasimha Rao admonishing bureaucrats for writing Nonaligned as...
K. Benitha Perciyal on Art, faith, bodies and seeds
Frontlineby Krishnapriya C P29d ago
Seeds, resin, mud and textiles become metaphors for transformation. | Photo Credit: Prasannakumar N. An ongoing solo exhibition by the Chennai-based artist K.
Why Indians steal from the Indian Railways
Frontlineby Palash Krishna Mehrotra29d ago
Broadly speaking, there are three kinds of thieves: Those who steal for kicks, for the sheer thrill of it; those who steal for personal profit; and those who steal out of an undefined compulsion.
Death Sentences in India: When Does Judicial Courage Go Too Far?
Frontlineby V Venkatesan AI Summary12 Sept 2026
Between April 6 and September 7, 2026, Additional District and Sessions Judge Ravi Kumar Diwakar sentenced 23 people to death in Muzaffarnagar.
BRICS: Common Challenges and the Case for Cooperation
Frontlineby JAYATI GHOSH AI Summary12 Sept 2026
Despite their differences, its member-countries face some common challenges, which they could address by developing new, coordinated strategies. Strange things happen in the world.
BRICS Summit 2016: India’s Struggle to Shape the Bloc
Frontlineby JOHN CHERIAN AI Summary12 Sept 2026
THE 8th BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) Summit was held on October 15-16 in Goa in the wake of interesting political developments on the international stage.
BRICS Factor: India’s Role in a Changing Global Order
Frontlineby JOHN CHERIAN AI Summary12 Sept 2026
It was not a coincidence that the 71-day-old Doklam standoff ended just before the start of the BRICS summit in Xiamen, China, in the first week of September.