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Oct 1, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Mohammad Asif |Aparna Eswaran |Silpa Satheesh |Arathi P.M
It was a sweltering April day in Delhi, with the kind of heat that penetrates the soul. Eid was approaching, telling me that it was time to make the obligatory visit to my family home in Kashmir. I boarded a flight from Delhi feeling like a lone train departing an empty station, immersed in the memory of Zulaikha, to whom I had once given my soul. Our paths had crossed by accident, only to part again soon. But it felt as if I had known her for eternity.
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Vivek Katju |Aparna Eswaran |Silpa Satheesh |Arathi P.M
India-Pakistan relations have been barren for over five years now with no green shoots in sight. Instead, the stage is set for a fresh round of bitterness and confrontation. Reports indicate that India has formally invoked Article XII(3) of the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT), seeking its modification. India’s move is not surprising considering Pakistan’s obstructionism on projects which India considers valid under the IWT.
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Manash Bhattacharjee |Aparna Eswaran |Silpa Satheesh |Arathi P.M
In May 1929, Gandhi received a letter from W.E.B. Du Bois, the Black American scholar and civil rights activist, via British missionary C.F Andrews. Du Bois expressed his pleasure at meeting Sarojini Naidu and Andrews, requesting Gandhi contribute a message for Black people in his magazine, The Crisis. Gandhi replied that attempting a message was “useless,” but sent a “little love message” instead: “Let not the 12 million Negroes be ashamed of the fact that they are the grandchildren of slaves.
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | V. V. Ganeshananthan |Shuma Raha |Aparna Eswaran |Silpa Satheesh
The civil war in Sri Lanka, which began in 1983 and lasted for nearly three decades, killed hundreds of thousands of people, displaced millions, and convulsed the island nation for a generation.
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Sep 30, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | R.K. Radhakrishnan |Aparna Eswaran |Silpa Satheesh |Arathi P.M
“Hope is a dangerous thing,” Red (played by Morgan Freeman) tells Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) in the movie The Shawshank Redemption. “Hope can drive a man insane,” he adds. Andy does not react, but he leaves a letter for Red to find, much later: “Remember, Red, hope is a good thing, may be the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.”If there is one word that defines the people of Sri Lanka today, it is hope.
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Sep 30, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Ashish Ranjan |Aparna Eswaran |Silpa Satheesh |Arathi P.M
The Assembly election in Jammu and Kashmir is happening after 10 years, and the people have voted not merely to elect their representatives or their government but also to participate in elections and draw attention to some of the challenges they face. The voting happened in three phases, on September 18, 25, and October 1.
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Sep 29, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Saba Naqvi |Aparna Eswaran |Silpa Satheesh |Arathi P.M
The ongoing three-phase election in Jammu and Kashmir undoubtedly displays the people’s desire to use the ballot to negotiate a little more elbow room and breathing space than they have had since August 5, 2019, when Article 370 and Article 35A of the Constitution were repealed and Jammu and Kashmir reduced from a State to a Union Territory, with Ladakh hived off as a separate centrally administered territory as well.
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Sep 29, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | C.P. Chandrasekhar |Aparna Eswaran |Silpa Satheesh |Arathi P.M
Europe is clearly battling to stall its economic decline, and Mario Draghi’s recent report on the future of “European competitiveness” commissioned by the European Union reflects this fact. At the centre of Europe’s economic slide is the descent of Germany to the status of the “sick man” of Europe. Inflation, rising unemployment, falling competitiveness, and slow growth have been plaguing the nation for the past few years.
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Sep 29, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Prathyush Parasuraman |Aparna Eswaran |Silpa Satheesh |Arathi P.M
Hindi cinema seems to be facing a crisis of confidence, with theatres screening older films rather than newer ones. And these films are doing well too: Laila Majnu (2018) and Tumbbad (2018), for example, earning more at the box office now than when they were initially released. Perhaps it is nostalgia, a sense of lapsed innocence that we keep insisting once existed, that draws us back to these films.
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Sep 28, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | T.K. Rajalakshmi |Aparna Eswaran |Silpa Satheesh |Arathi P.M
Agrarian issues dominated the Lok Sabha election in Haryana and are expected to influence the outcome of the Assembly election too as a large proportion of rural households in the State are dependent on agriculture. Also, with multiple contenders vying for the Dalit vote this time, there is significant interest in how the Dalit community, which constitutes 20 per cent of Haryana’s population, will vote in the Assembly election scheduled for October 5.
