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1 month ago | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Anuj Behal |Vaishna Roy
In Ahmedabad’s Santosh Nagar, 60-year-old Abida Biwi Abdul Rehman Sheikh lives in a state of constant anxiety. She has struggled to sleep ever since the Amdavad Municipal Corporation (AMC) put up an eviction notice in her colony.
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2 months ago | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Anuj Behal |Vaishna Roy
On January 16, Mohammad Mateen, 40, a driver from Khaggu Sarai of Sambhal, Uttar Pradesh, was arrested on charges of “disturbing peace.” His family, however, alleges that the arrest is part of an ongoing effort to force them out of their home following the “discovery” of a purported centuries-old temple adjacent to their house. Mateen bought the property in 2002 with his own earnings and has all the necessary ownership documents. He even secured a bank loan by mortgaging the house.
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Sep 17, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Amey Tirodkar |Anuj Behal |Subha Rao |Ayesha Minhaz
Mumbai’s real estate sector has always been the golden goose for many, including the city administration. The Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) is the country’s most lucrative area of operations in the real estate business. Although the city’s real estate market went through a slowdown from 2016 to 2022, there has been a rebound in the past two years. It recorded 11,443 property registrations in June alone, marking a 12-year record in stamp duty collection at Rs.986 crore.
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Sep 17, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Ashutosh Sharma |Amey Tirodkar |Anuj Behal |T.K. Rajalakshmi
On September 5, after a 21-day furlough, rape and murder convict and controversial godman Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh Insan returned to Rohtak district’s Sunaria jail in a carcade amid heavy security cover. This was his 10th furlough or parole given at various times. Since his incarceration in 2017, he has spent 255 days out of jail so far. Observers note that Ram Rahim’s jail reprieves have invariably coincided with elections to local bodies, the Assembly, or Parliament.
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Sep 17, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Amey Tirodkar |Anuj Behal |Subha Rao |Ayesha Minhaz
Sujata V, 51, is a psychotherapist based in the US. In the early 1990s, she went by the screen name of Soumya, a teenager who acted in one Tamil and three Malayalam films, Poochakkaru Mani Kettum, Advaitham, and Neelakurukkan. In September 2024, 32 years after she left the industry, she spoke of how she was groomed by a Tamil director to be his sex slave. She is now successful in a different profession, but she misses acting.
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Sep 16, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Amey Tirodkar |Anuj Behal |Subha Rao |Ayesha Minhaz
In February this year, Harman, a 19-year-old woman from Dhogri village in Punjab’s Jalandhar district, was busy with her wedding preparations. Still fresh out of school, she had not intended to marry so soon, but life had other plans for her. “The boy’s family was willing to cover my expenses, including tickets, and send me to Canada to study, so why not get married now?” she said.
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Sep 16, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Iftikhar Gilani |Raviprasad Narayanan |Anuj Behal |Thulasi K. Raj
The journey from the Israeli settlement of Har Gilo to the Palestinian city of Bethlehem is brief, just 2 kilometres. Yet, the “distance” between the two worlds is vast. On the Israeli side, world-class roads wind through well-maintained settlements, their cleanliness and modernity standing in stark contrast to the dilapidated infrastructure on the Palestinian side. Travellers crossing Israeli checkpoints and the towering separation wall enter a world of deprivation and neglect.
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Sep 11, 2024 | 
maktoobmedia.com | Anuj Behal
“My mother moved to this colony after her marriage, and I too got married within the same neighbourhood,” says 50-year-old Sakeena, who now finds her life reduced to rubble. “I had children here, raised them, and invested my entire life in building this house. And now, it’s all gone.” Her two-story home was demolished by the state, and for the past year, Sakeena has been living amidst the debris. “We’ve lost track of how long we’ve been here,” she adds.
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Jul 10, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | V. Anand |M. Suresh Babu |Anuj Behal |Greeshma Kuthar
Central examinations are a way of measuring performance, usually against certain predefined standards, and are intended to provide information on how individual students perform relative to the national or regional student population. Given that education itself is fraught with agency problems in developing economies, the role performed by central examinations may be pivotal to how the education system works.
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Jul 9, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Furqan Qamar |V. Anand |M. Suresh Babu |Anuj Behal
The National Testing Agency’s (NTA) fiasco this year has assumed such astronomical proportions that the Ministry of Education (MoE) had to look for a space scientist to lead a high-powered committee to inquire into it and suggest measures to avert such debacles in the future. The controversies involving the NTA raise doubts about its ability to efficiently conduct the eligibility-cum-entrance examinations for admissions into higher education programmes in the country.
