Kamaraj: When Gandhian Ideals Met the Welfare State
Frontlineby Surya Bulusu10d ago
Around October 2, the noticeboard outside Kamarajar Memorial School in Mumbai’s Dharavi takes on a particular cast.
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top 99%The Art of the Lie: A Murder Mystery in Georgian London
Frontlineby Aditya Sinha AI Summary11d ago
This summer abroad, I read books old and new, including the mammoth Middlemarch by George Eliot (born Mary Ann Evans), which Martin Amis called the best English novel (in a 1967 letter to his...
Does India Need A New Approach to Tackling Counterfeit Drugs?
Frontlineby Ameer Shahul11d ago
In mid-August, a labourer in a village in Karnataka’s South Bengaluru district chanced upon some discarded medicine vials and some packets containing white powder on his way to the fields.
The Frontline Fortnightly | The hooch and the Mahatma
Frontlineby Jinoy Jose P AI Summary11d ago
Dear reader, There was a Gandhi in my village who made hooch. Allegedly. I put the allegedly there as a courtesy to the dead and a caution to the living; those who know, know.
TNUEF conference puts Dalit women at the centre
Frontlineby Lalitha Muthu12d ago
Both Ambedkar and Periyar, through their writings and movements, challenged the framing of caste as a problem only of Dalit people; it is a problem of caste-Hindu society, they said, which...
Indian Literature in Translation: Two Books After Guftugu
Frontlineby Ananya Vajpeyi12d ago
There are at least two excellent reasons to look at The View From Here: Stories and Poems of Many Indias edited by Githa Hariharan and K.
Why Solar Power Matters for India’s Dairy Cold Chain
Frontlineby Suchak Patel12d ago
At more than Rs.11.16 lakh crore, the value of India’s milk output is higher than that of any other agricultural commodity, exceeding the combined value of paddy and wheat, according to the...
UP 2027: SP-Congress Alliance Faces a Complex Vote Equation
Frontlineby Anand Mishra AI Summary12d ago
Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, which sends the largest number of members to Parliament (80), have often been compared to a mini general election, and the 2027 election will be no different...
New Books This Week: Dalit Resistance, Colonial Race Theory and Raj-Era Disease Politics Anchor Frontline's Fiction and Non-Fiction Picks
Frontlineby AI Summary12d ago
The Wordsmith Dhruba Jyoti Borah Penguin Eight Rs.599 The novel that won the Assamese Sahitya Akademi Award has been translated into English by the author himself.
Brand Yogi: Hindutva, governance, and the 2027 UP election
Frontlineby Soni Mishra AI Summary12d ago
Soon after Adityanath took over as Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh on March 19, 2017, the Chief Minister’s office complex in Lucknow turned from white to saffron.
BJP’s UP Pivot: From Ram Mandir to Governance
Frontlineby Ashutosh Sharma AI Summary12d ago
There seems to be a subtle but clear shift in the BJP’s grand narrative in Uttar Pradesh as it edges closer to the 2027 Assembly election.
Sabarimala, Misogyny, and the Control of Women’s Bodies
Frontlineby Kalpish Ratna13d ago
On September 8, the newspaper delivered its usual breakfast consignment of crime: theft, digital fraud, sexual harassment, two rapes, and three murders, one of them a parricide.
Are Uttar Pradesh’s Manufacturing Industries Declining Due to Government Negligence?
Frontlineby Vedaant Lakhera13d ago
The narrow lanes of Moradabad’s Ghuiyaan Bagh resound with rhythmic metallic clinks as plates of brass are hammered into shape.
Duphang-Ni Solo and the Art of Portraying Political Violence
Frontlineby Vidyarthy Chatterjee AI Summary13d ago
There was a time—the 1970s to the 1990s—when the Indian Panorama showcase would attract many film aficionados from different parts of the country and from abroad to the International Film Festival...
Krishna's Flood Tide
Frontlineby Satyam Sankaramanchi13d ago
At a distance is the cloud-touching arch of the temple entrance. Behind that, the gilded top of the temple gleamed as the sun’s rays greeted it.
Rajendra Chenni's History of Kannada Literature Decentres Canonical Historiography
Frontlineby Kamalakar Bhat13d ago
Writing a literary history is not merely a matter of arranging authors and texts in chronological order.
Rethinking Development: Why India’s Focus on High GDP Fails to Deliver True Happiness
Frontlineby Trishna Sarkar13d ago
Alok Ranjan’s Beyond GDP: In Pursuit of Measuring Happiness echoes a line often attributed to the Buddha: “There is no path to happiness: happiness is the path.” The title itself works like a quiet...
Sahil Wakode and IIT Bombay’s Caste Discrimination Record
Frontlineby Amey Tirodkar AI Summary13d ago
“I want justice for Sahil. That’s the only demand I am making as Sahil’s mother. I want nothing else,” said Sonali Wakode at Mumbai’s Azad Maidan.
Grief Burns Like Fever: A Novel of Pandemic and Loss
Frontlineby Aditya Mani Jha13d ago
The phrase “uncanny valley” is used to describe the complicated mixture of feelings evoked by watching something non-human that closely resembles an actual human being: anthropomorphic animals, a...
Queer India Sanitised
Frontlineby Ashley Tellis13d ago
That a corporate “culture lab” has partnered with a corporate publisher to tell us what queer India now is, is not surprising.