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Nov 11, 2024 | 
southasianvoices.org | Dalir Khan |Vivek Mishra |Bantirani Patro
The speculation and excitement around the U.S. election has ended with the victory of Republican candidate, Donald J. Trump. For the first time in over a 100 years, a candidate has become president after being voted out of office once prior, returning to power in a non-consecutive term. While his victory will have significant consequences domestically, the results of this election will have ripple effects across the world.
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Sep 4, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Sandip Roy |Vaishna Roy |Suhrid Sankar Chattopadhyay |Bantirani Patro
Anand Puri, a member of the third generation of the family that owns the legendary Trincas restaurant in Kolkata, has a mystery to solve: the rainbow pride flag hanging outside Trincas routinely goes missing. “I don’t think it’s homophobia because nothing is ever defaced,” says Puri. “I think it’s some queer kid.”Over the last year, Trincas has become a rather unlikely queer haven in Kolkata.
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Sep 4, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Vaishna Roy |Suhrid Sankar Chattopadhyay |Bantirani Patro |Bashir Ali Abbas
The Women Who Would Not Die: StoriesUddipana GoswamiSpeaking TigerRs.499A dozen stories set in Assam chronicle how migrants, women, and other vulnerable people eke out a fragile life in a fragmented society traumatised by war and massacres.
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Sep 4, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Vaishna Roy |Suhrid Sankar Chattopadhyay |Bantirani Patro |Bashir Ali Abbas
The Union government has become known for its favouritism to BJP-ruled States and select States in the Hindi-belt while ignoring the non-BJP-ruled and southern States when it comes to the allotment of funds and their legitimate share of taxes collected by the Centre (Cover Story, September 6).
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Sep 3, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Shahnaz Habib |Sukhada Tatke |Bantirani Patro |Bashir Ali Abbas
Years ago, an acquaintance, a white American man, went to check into a hotel near Mumbai airport the night before his flight back to the US. The reception denied him room because he had overstayed his Indian e-visa by a few days, something he was aware of but did not think would be a big issue. “I thought it would be fine,” he later told his Indian partner, who flew back to New York as planned.
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Sep 3, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Bantirani Patro |Bashir Ali Abbas |Sushmita S. Preetha |Rachita Taneja
Into his third term as Prime Minister, Narendra Modi continues to make much of his “Neighbourhood First” policy, but India’s public is not aware that it has been a debacle. The tendency of New Delhi commentators to hew close to the line set by North Block and South Block means India’s citizens do not get a correct reading of what is happening next door, nor the repeated faux pas of their government.
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Sep 2, 2024 | 
hindustantimes.com | Bantirani Patro
Similarly, the Taliban administration mirrors Gilead’s oppressive regime, while their ‘Ministry for Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice’ (PVPV) functions much like the Eyes. And, as for Mayday, well, the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan, the Taliban’s chief opposition, is currently too weak and without considerable support to be considered a parallel force.
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Sep 2, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | C.S. Venkiteswaran |Bantirani Patro |Bashir Ali Abbas |Sukhada Tatke
Gallery Sumukha, at Wilson Garden, Bengaluru, is currently hosting a retrospective of prints by the artist Gulammohammed Sheikh. While the first part, titled “Gulammohammed Sheikh: Graphic Prints”, ended on July 27 (from June 29), the second part, titled “Mind Prints: Digital Works”, is on until September 14 (from August 17). The exhibition is curated by the artist Pushpamala N.
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Aug 31, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | R.K. Radhakrishnan |Vaishna Roy |Suhrid Sankar Chattopadhyay |Bantirani Patro
As Sri Lanka hurtles towards the September 21 presidential election, there is still no coherent electoral strategy on the part of the country’s minorities. If the lack of discussion about Tamil aspirations by the serious contenders, all Sinhala-speaking Buddhist political parties, is a cause for concern, the fact that the Tamil parties have not been able to put up a united front severely limits their bargaining power. Most Tamils are either Hindus or Christians.
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Aug 22, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Bantirani Patro |Bashir Ali Abbas |C.P. Chandrasekhar |Vaishna Roy
At the crack of dawn on August 15, 1975, a group of renegade officers of the Bangladesh Army’s First Armoured Division stormed into Dhanmondi 32, Dhaka, and gunned down Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib-ur-Rahman, his wife, sons, and 10-year-old grandson. His daughters, Sheikh Hasina and Sheikh Rehana, were spared only by virtue of them being abroad on that fateful day.
