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1 month ago | frontline.thehindu.com | Bashir Ali Abbas |Sharada Srinivasan |Vaishna Roy

Gideon Levy, internationally acclaimed journalist and author, is an award-winning columnist at Israel’s Haaretz newspaper and part of its editorial board. Known for his critical views on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Levy is recognised for his writings on the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories and has received several awards for his work, including the Euro-Med Journalist Prize, the Leipzig Freedom Prize, and Israel’s top journalism award, the Sokolov Prize, in 2021.

2 months ago | frontline.thehindu.com | Stanly Johny |Bashir Ali Abbas |Soni Mishra |Vaishna Roy

Across 15 months, operations by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in Gaza have killed at least 46,000 Palestinians and some 3,000 more people in Lebanon in response to Hamas’ October 7, 2023, terror attacks, which killed 1,200 Israelis. At the time of writing this review, the IDF is conducting a series of raids in the Palestinian city of Jenin, in the West Bank, even as a tenuous ceasefire has been in place in Gaza since January 19, 2025.

Nov 5, 2024 | hindustantimes.com | Bashir Ali Abbas

For 24 days between October 1 and 25, West Asia waited for Israel’s inevitable retaliation to Iran’s ballistic missile barrage which itself was a response to Israel’s assassinations of Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran and Hassan Nasrallah in Lebanon (followed by the start of the Israel Defense Force’s (IDF) ongoing invasion of South Lebanon). When it came, in three waves before dawn broke in Tehran, it brought with it some markers of change.

Oct 30, 2024 | frontline.thehindu.com | Bashir Ali Abbas |Talmiz Ahmad |Chintan Girish Modi |Muddassir Quamar

The Blanket CatsKiyoshi Shigematsu, translated by Jesse KirkwoodMacLehose PressRs.411A classic of the Japanese Cat Book genre, this feel-good novel is now available in English. The anxious souls of Tokyo rent feline companions from a unique pet shop in the hope that their troubles will be resolved by the touch of a furry paw. But the cats have their own agendas, naturally.

Oct 29, 2024 | frontline.thehindu.com | Bashir Ali Abbas |Peter Ronald deSouza |Vaishna Roy

On a sunny afternoon on February 1, 1979, in Tehran’s Shahyad Square (now Meidan-e-Azadi), a loud, jubilant crowd in excess of a million greeted Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini as he descended from his helicopter after being flown in earlier from the Parisian suburb of Neauphle-le-Château.1 Among the throng that welcomed Khomeini and the hope of a new dawn that he brought with him after the end of Reza Shah Pahlavi’s autocratic regime were two senior Israeli officials, Yitzhak Segev (Israel’s...