Why Nations Fail: Rajiv Dogra Traces Empire's Common Collapse Pattern
Frontlineby Dammu Ravi3d ago
The early signs of a nation’s decline appear when it fails to provide essential services and security to its people.
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top 96%Book Review | How Authoritarianism Takes Hold of a Society and Grows and Sustains Itself
Frontlineby Dammu Ravi3d ago
The brutal reality of history is that dark times have been its signature tune and “autocracy” its default condition. The word autocracy has Greek origins, where “auto” means self and “krato” power.
India’s AI Data Debate Moves Beyond Data Localisation
Frontlineby Amit Kumar4d ago
On September 18, 2026, the Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser (PSA) to the Government of India made public a discussion paper titled “Enabling Cross-Border Data Interoperability for AI...
Delhi SIR Protest: Opposition Turns Up Heat On ECI
Frontlineby Anand Mishra AI Summary4d ago
The opposition upped the ante against the government and the Election Commission of India (ECI) with a massive protest in the national capital on October 6, seeking the scrapping of the Special...
2026 Nobel Prizes honour breakthroughs in physics and chemistry
Frontlineby Frontline News Desk4d ago
On October 6, 2026, Belgian-born physicist Francis Halzen was awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics for his “decisive contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the discovery of...
CJP’s Election Commission campaign tests its wider ambitions
Frontlineby Vedaant Lakhera4d ago
Since the extraordinary success of the protest led by the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) ended with the resignation of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on July 25, its members and...
ECI Transparency: Why Public Records of Dissent Matter
Frontlineby N V Geetha4d ago
The current controversy within the Election Commission of India (ECI) concerns collective responsibility for electoral administration.
David Shulman’s West Bank Notes: How Satyagraha and Despair Redefine Resistance Under Occupation
Frontlineby Soumyabrata Choudhury5d ago
After a long day in the South Hebron hills in the Occupied West Bank, David Shulman and his colleagues from Ta’ayush, a joint Israeli-Palestinian peace movement, are preparing to leave when they...
Boundary Commissions: Where Love Meets Language and Music
Frontlineby Aarthi Murali5d ago
The poems in this collection pivot on the relationship between a poet and a musician. They begin with them falling in love and embarking on a relationship which changes them, the worlds around...
How Raag Darbari Still Explains India’s Politics
Frontlineby Amritesh Mukherjee5d ago
Making sense of India’s socio-political situation is like trying to decode the cacophony of a royal court.
Bulk Form 7 objections raise concerns over voter deletions in Karnataka
Frontlineby Meghana Choukkar5d ago
Syed Hasrath Ulla, 57, was surprised when the Booth Level Officer (BLO) for his polling booth in Narasimharaja Assembly constituency, Mysore, informed him on September 24 that someone had filed a...
Forest Rights Act: How MP Bureaucracy Undermines CFR Rights
Frontlineby Aditi Vajpeyi5d ago
On August 6, the Principal Chief Conservator of Forests (PCCF) of Madhya Pradesh, Manoj Aggarwal, issued a letter on Community Forest Resource (CFR) rights, directing forest officials to receive...
How Forms 6 and 7 Became Tools of Exclusion during SIR
Frontlineby Soni Mishra AI Summary5d ago
Many families in the J.J. Bela Estate slum cluster, on the banks of the Yamuna in the national capital, have lived here for generations, engaged mainly in growing crops on the floodplains or...
Telangana SIR: Form 7 Objections and Form 10 Gaps
Frontlineby Ayesha Minhaz AI Summary5d ago
Over the past few days, pre-printed Form 7 applications objecting to the inclusion of Muslim electors have surfaced in Telangana in three Assembly constituencies, raising concerns about attempts to...
ECI accountability and the powers of the Election Commission
Frontlineby V Venkatesan AI Summary5d ago
The Election Commission of India has a paradoxical constitutional task. It must make the rules and procedures of elections sufficiently certain that the outcome remains genuinely uncertain.
Optogenetics: How Light-Controlled Neurons Won the 2026 Nobel
Frontlineby Frontline News Desk5d ago
Three scientists, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel of Germany, and Karl Deisseroth of the US, have won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Medicine for their work that laid the foundation for optogenetics, a...
Best-Selling Author Jeffrey Archer Dies at 86 After Five Decades of Writing
Frontlineby Frontline News Desk6d ago
Bestselling British author Jeffrey Archer, aged 86, passed away “suddenly and peacefully at his home between writing sessions” on Monday, October 5, 2026, HarperCollins said, a day before the...
Modi’s decade and the rise of mob lynching in India
Frontlineby Mani Shankar Aiyar AI Summary6d ago
“It is a denial of Hinduism and ahimsa to kill a human being to protect a cow." - Mahatma Gandhi In the last few days, two reports have landed on my table that have caused me immense distress.
Bihar Floods Expose the Politics of a Never-Ending Crisis
Frontlineby Nalin Verma6d ago
Humans, deer, and wild goats—dazed and jittery—gathered together on the highlands in the vicinity of the Valmiki Tiger Reserve when the massive surge of water broke the embankments at multiple...
Asad Ghanem on Palestinian Political Participation in Israel After October 7
Frontlineby Iftikhar Gilani AI Summary6d ago
Professor Asad Ghanem is a political scientist at the University of Haifa in Israel and a prominent scholar of Palestinian politics, ethnic states, and minority representation.