Jinoy Jose P

4 days ago | frontline.thehindu.com | Jinoy Jose P |Vivek Katju |Vaishna Roy

There is something ironic about Varun Grover’s origin story. Here is a man who has made a career out of making people uncomfortable with his razor-sharp wit and unflinching social commentary, yet his journey began in the most uncomfortable place imaginable: as the overweight kid getting bullied in school playgrounds across North India. “I was always either doing the umpiring in the cricket team or I was sitting on the sidelines,” Grover recalls with characteristic self-deprecation.

1 week ago | frontline.thehindu.com | Jinoy Jose P |Vivek Katju |Vaishna Roy

“We’re all just one diplomatic tantrum away from becoming radioactive dust, but at least our tweets will survive in the cloud.”—Anonymous (in the first week of May 2025). Dear reader,So here we are, still breathing, debating, and doomscrolling. Honestly, there were many points in the past few weeks where some of us thought, quite realistically and plausibly, we might not see this day after watching two nuclear powers seemingly tell us, in Gen Z lingo, “hold my tea and watch this”.

2 weeks ago | frontline.thehindu.com | Jinoy Jose P |Gowhar Geelani |Vaishna Roy

When Kannada writer Banu Mushtaq and her translator Deepa Bhasthi stood together to accept the International Booker Prize at London’s Tate Modern Museum on May 20, 2025, it was a victory for the vulgare—or, to use the modern term, the vernacular. In medieval Latin, vulgari comes from vulgus, meaning “common people”. And vulgare meant the common speech of the people. Latin was the formal and literary language of the elite and the Church.

3 weeks ago | frontline.thehindu.com | Jinoy Jose P |Gowhar Geelani |Vaishna Roy

“In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation.” — Guy Debord, 1967. Dear reader,I remember the first time I realised I was living inside a “spectacle”. It happened during a job interview in 2020, when a media founder leaned forward with alarming intensity and asked, “So, do you have a YouTube channel? Any televised events?

1 month ago | frontline.thehindu.com | Jinoy Jose P |Gowhar Geelani |Vaishna Roy

Dear reader,On Monday, Frontline was recording Latitude, our brand-new world affairs show hosted by senior journalist Nirupama Subramanian. Our guest was the former diplomat T.C.A. Raghavan. The context was the aftermath of the Pahalgam attack, where terrorists allegedly backed by Pakistan gunned down 26 civilians. In response, on April 24, the government announced it would suspend the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) of 1960 until Pakistan ceased to support cross-border terrorism.