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1 week ago | 
flipboard.com | Karan Madhok
Indian mangoes land in America and become 'ticking time bombs'Hello DC folks, I have Alphonso, Kesar & Rasalu—Indian mangoes are entering the US through WhatsApp. Washington, DC: Like many tales involving …
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1 week ago | 
theprint.in | Karan Madhok
Then begins a race against time. “Imported mangoes from India are always like a ticking time bomb,” Gola said. Gola and his sub-distributors, based in other regions in the US, have 48 hours to sell the mangoes, as the famous summer fruit has a short lifespan. Eat it within the first week, and the juicy, lush sweetness might change your life. Wait a little too long, and the fruit will go mushy, bitter, and inedible.
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Mar 22, 2025 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Vaishna Roy |Karan Madhok
The enforcement of photography and videography restrictions at the open cremation spaces in Banaras (also Varanasi) has relaxed in recent years, but there was a time when they were strictly prohibited.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
dailypioneer.com | Karan Madhok |Thich Nhat Hanh |Deepak Sen
Book: Ananda: An Exploration of Cannabis in India Author: Karan Madhok Publisher: Alpha book company Price: Rs 999 Book: Love in Action: Writings on Nonviolent Social Change Author: Thich Nhat Hanh Publisher: Alpha book company Price: Rs 399 Book: The Divine Kumbh Echoes of Eternity: Ganga, Shipra, Godavari, and Sangam Author: Deepak Kumar Sen Publisher: Niyogi books Price: Rs 695 Book: The Gown and The Gavel: Life Journey of a Former Chief Justice of India Author: G.B. PATNAIK Publisher:...
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Jan 2, 2025 | 
scroll.in | Karan Madhok
Over 50 years later, the opening scene of the song “Dum Maro Dum” from Haré Rama Haré Krishna is still one of the most glorious moments in Indian film history. The song awoke to a world that John Lennon proposed in “Imagine” – released the same year – a world without borders and violence, a world of diversity and dreams. The year is 1971. The camera zooms out to a clay chillum, in the hands of a shaggy-haired white man. He takes a puff from the pipe.
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Neera Chandhoke |Karan Madhok |Vaishna Roy
The one political party in India that has grasped the importance of working in constituencies between elections, sustained a dedicated cadre, and established like-minded “service” organisations is the BJP. It has damaged the body politic, normalised vocabularies of hate, eroded democratic institutions, and subverted the Constitution. Still, we must take the organisation of the BJP seriously to understand how and why it wins elections despite maladministration, corruption, and crony capitalism.
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Suhrid Sankar Chattopadhyay |Karan Madhok |Vaishna Roy
After a disappointing performance in Maharashtra in the June Lok Sabha election, the prospects were bleak for the BJP-led Mahayuti alliance in the Assembly election in November. The BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) had won only 17 of the 48 seats, down 24 from its 2019 tally, while the Congress-led INDIA coalition won 30. However, five months later, the saffron party and its alliance roared back to power, apparently riding on the newly created “Ladki Bahin” (beloved sister) scheme.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Aditya Mukherjee |Mani Shankar Aiyar |Karan Madhok |Aditya Mukherjee Penguin
At a time when the forces of Hindutva are relentlessly denigrating Jawaharlal Nehru’s contribution to the freedom of our country and the first 17 years of nation-building in independent India, the historian Aditya Mukherjee brings welcome clarification to the debate largely by citing Nehru’s own words and expanding on their import in the present context.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Atul Kumar Pandey |Karan Madhok |Vaishna Roy
The 2024 Jharkhand Assembly election result marked a pivotal moment in the State’s political landscape. Jharkhand has emerged from a period of intense political turmoil: between 2009 and 2013, President’s Rule was imposed three times, and no Chief Minister of the State could finish his five-year tenure except Raghubar Das (2014-19). Since the inception of the State, seven different Chief Ministers had taken oath 12 times just before this election. No party or alliance could retain power for long.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Adithya Kumar |Karan Madhok |Vaishna Roy
For Janni Mithula, 42, a resident of the Thotavalasa village in Andhra Pradesh, cultivating the rich, red soil of the valley was her livelihood. On her small patch of land grow with coffee and mango trees, planted over decades with tireless care and ancestral knowledge. Yet, once a source of pride and sustainability, the meaning of these trees has been quietly redefined in ways she never agreed to.
