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2 months ago | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Abhinav Chakraborty |Vaishna Roy
In the foreword to the imaginatively titled Net Flicks: India’s Smashing Affair with the Shuttle, a history of Indian badminton, the legendary former player Pullela Gopi Chand writes of the “remarkable journey for Indian badminton” from the early years characterised by a lack of facilities to the current era when our players have “access to the best training, equipment and infrastructure”.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Vikhar Ahmed Sayeed |Soni Mishra |Abhinav Chakraborty |Sanjay Hegde
A relative who had a fairly large collection of books once told me that he read all his books simultaneously and hence could not spare a particular book that I wanted to borrow. This was many years ago, and I remember thinking that he was a selfish scrooge who had made up a ridiculous excuse to avoid lending me the book. But now that I am older and wiser, I wonder if he had been speaking some version of the truth.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Abhinav Chakraborty |Karan Madhok |Ashutosh Sharma |T.K. Rajalakshmi
In one of the early chapters of Sally Rooney’s new novel, Intermezzo, the protagonist, Ivan, a 22-year-old chess player, invites Margaret, a 36-year-old programme director at the arts centre hosting an amateur chess tournament-cum-workshop, to the house where he has been put up by the organisers.
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Abhinav Chakraborty |Talmiz Ahmad |Vaishna Roy
On November 26 this year, India will celebrate 75 years of its Constitution.
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Aug 3, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Abhinav Chakraborty |Divya Gandhi |Vaishna Roy
In one of the essays in Twilight Prisoners: The Rise of the Hindu Right and the Decline of India, Siddhartha Deb describes a “violently authoritarian version” of India wherein a government would not refrain from using draconian laws to put ideological opponents behind bars for an indiscriminate period in the name of the “war on terror”. Deb tells Frontline that “despite the compromised system, we have no choice but to fight back”.
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Apr 12, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Abhinav Chakraborty |Paranjoy Guha Thakurta |Abir Dasgupta |Vaishna Roy
On February 22, 2024, the popular video content creator Dhruv Rathee released a video on his YouTube channel which drew the ire of supporters of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Titled “Is India becoming a DICTATORSHIP?”, the video spoke about the farcical Chandigarh mayoral election and the farmers’ protest 2.0, raising concerns about the country’s democratic downslide.
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Feb 21, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Adam Biles |Abhinav Chakraborty |Suhrid Sankar Chattopadhyay |M.G. Radhakrishnan
The British novelist and essayist George Orwell’s dystopic vision of the future in 1984 still gives us goosebumps with its accuracy. His prophetic insights have ensured that his works are discussed, analysed, and paid homage to even today, more than 70 years after his death. He was in the news all through 2023—the year marking his 120th birth anniversary. Four books on him and his works—two novels and two biographies—came out, proving yet again that he continues to speak to our times.
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Jan 17, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Abhinav Chakraborty |Rakesh Sood |Vaishna Roy
pread across five continents, Akshat Rathi’s Climate Capitalism: Winning the Global Race to Zero Emissions (John Murray Press, 2023) tracks the unlikely heroes driving the fight against climate change. Through stories that bring people, policy, and technology together, he reveals how the green economy is not just possible, but profitable. Akshat Rathi is a senior reporter for Bloomberg News based in London, UK, and the host of “Zero”, a climate podcast for Bloomberg Green.
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Jan 12, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Abhinav Chakraborty |Rakesh Sood |Vaishna Roy
In India, things have been tough on the environmental front of late. Media reports suggest that recent laws, such as amendments to the Biological Diversity Act and the Forest Conservation Act, have made it easier to chop down forests and reduce the penalties for violating such laws.
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Oct 21, 2023 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Abhinav Chakraborty |Anand Mishra |Vaishna Roy
mrit Mathur’s recently released memoir Pitchside: My Life in Indian Cricket is a ringside view of India’s favourite obsession—cricket—over the last three and a half decades. Filled with interesting stories, insightful anecdotes, and memorable profiles of some of the biggest names in Indian cricket, it is a book that ought to be read by those invested in the sport.
