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Nov 16, 2023 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Bhavya Dore |Anosh Malekar |Lawrence Liang |Jaideep Unudurti
The sari pallu is pulled over demurely, a red bindi is centred on her forehead. Neha Singh Rathore looks directly into the camera and croons: “UP me ka ba? UP me ka ba?” This is a song, a satire, and a challenge: what’s going on in Uttar Pradesh, it asks. By Rathore’s account, not much. The Ganga overflowed with bodies during the pandemic, the Hathras rape victim awaits justice, and communal friction stains the air. The rhetorical question “UP me ka ba” is the refrain that runs through the song.
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Nov 11, 2023 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Bashir Ali Abbas |Rohini Hensman |Anosh Malekar |Bhavya Dore
In July 2006, Hezbollah kidnapped two Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers and took them to Lebanon while the group simultaneously conducted rocket strikes against Israeli military targets. Subsequently, five more IDF soldiers were killed in a failed rescue attempt. Israel’s response was to launch a multipronged ground offensive on South Lebanon, combined with a blockade of Lebanese ports, along with a massive bombardment campaign. The 2006 Lebanon War, as it became known, lasted just over a month.
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Nov 10, 2023 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Anosh Malekar |Suhrid Sankar Chattopadhyay |Bashir Ali Abbas |Anand Mishra
In colonial India, people would place a cat inside a cage with pigeons and make bets on the number of birds it would bring down with one swipe of its paw. The game is said to have given birth to the phrase “to set the cat among the pigeons”. Something of the sort happened in Maharashtra on September 1 when the police in Jalna district lathicharged supporters of a 40-year-old farmer who was on a hunger strike demanding reservation for Marathas.
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Nov 4, 2023 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Suhrid Sankar Chattopadhyay |Anosh Malekar |T.K. Rajalakshmi |Saba Naqvi
The allegations of cash for queries against Mahua Moitra, Trinamool Lok Sabha MP from Krishnanagar, has created a huge storm in Indian politics over the past few weeks.
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Sep 7, 2023 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Ashutosh Bhardwaj |Suhrid Sankar Chattopadhyay |Anosh Malekar |R.K. Radhakrishnan
In its sixth decade now, the Maoist movement is the most widespread insurgency in independent India. It follows an ultra-Left ideology, which argues that an armed revolution is inevitable because electoral democracy has failed to deliver. Over the years, the movement has attracted a range of people from students of top universities to peasants and Adivasis. Maoists and Government Welfare: Excluding Legitimacy or Legitimising Exclusion?
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Sep 7, 2023 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | C.P. Chandrasekhar |Anosh Malekar |Prathyush Parasuraman |Ilangovan Rajasekaran
Even as the Indian government celebrates the high growth rates that the increases in official GDP figures signal, it is haunted by the spectre of inflation. The increase in the consumer price index (CPI) for all commodities, relative to the corresponding month of the previous year, stood at 4.3 per cent in May 2023, 4.9 per cent in June, and a disconcerting 7.4 per cent in July, the most recent figure available.
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Sep 7, 2023 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Suhrid Sankar Chattopadhyay |Anosh Malekar |R.K. Radhakrishnan |Ilangovan Rajasekaran
THE fact that the “Smoke and Mirrors” (Cover Story, September 8, 2023) featured as the cover story in your magazine barely a couple of months after “Mayhem in Manipur” (July 14, 2023) reveals the gravity of the situation there.
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Sep 7, 2023 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Anand Mishra |Suhrid Sankar Chattopadhyay |Anosh Malekar |R.K. Radhakrishnan
BJP national general secretary Tarun Chugh, who is party in-charge for Jammu and Kashmir, Telangana and Ladakh, told Frontline in an interview on September 2 that his party’s target is all-round development of the region, with tourism and trade promotion a high priority. Excerpts:What is BJP’s stand on giving Sixth Schedule status to Ladakh? The BJP is committed to the all-round development of Ladakh under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
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Sep 7, 2023 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Vaishna Roy |Suhrid Sankar Chattopadhyay |Anosh Malekar |R.K. Radhakrishnan
Before 2019, Ladakh was a part of the erstwhile State of Jammu & Kashmir. Ladakh’s people would complain bitterly about Kashmiri domination and demand Union Territory status. Then Article 370 was abrogated and overnight Ladakh’s wish was fulfilled. Its streets erupted in joy. The joy did not last long. As the scales fell away from their eyes, the Ladakhis soon realised that New Delhi was less concerned about Ladakh and more concerned about itself.
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Sep 6, 2023 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Pranay Sharma |Anosh Malekar |Prathyush Parasuraman |C.P. Chandrasekhar
Saudi Arabia, the world’s second largest oil producer, has gone into overdrive in recent years in its efforts to become a global player in international sports. It has spent billions of dollars on high-profile deals for an image makeover that involves reducing the country’s overdependence on oil. But detractors say the kingdom is using sport in a desperate attempt to divert international focus from its poor human rights record.
