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2 days ago | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Meena Kandasamy |Vaishna Roy |Nirupama Subramanian
In the first episode of our new weekly show on Frontline called Latitude, we will focus on India’s foreign policy and all the interesting developments across the world that have impacted our lives. Today we’ll be talking about the shock that US President Donald Trump delivered with his announcement on April 6 of a second set of massive spikes in tariffs on almost all countries that trade with the US. He called it Liberation Day.
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5 days ago | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Saba Naqvi |Meena Kandasamy |Vaishna Roy
The violence in West Bengal after the passage of the waqf law and potential disputes in Tamil Nadu over claims by the State Waqf Board are both flashpoints in the two States where Assembly elections are due next year and the BJP is not in power. Anything that dispossesses and disempowers India’s Muslim minority is believed to satisfy the primal urges of the ruling BJP-RSS cadre.
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1 week ago | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Meena Kandasamy |Vaishna Roy
I have known Amarjit Singh Dulat for over three decades. He was a longtime officer in the Intelligence Bureau (IB), heading the K-group, credited with bringing Kashmir back from the brink in the 1990s. He then headed the Research and Analysis Wing, which runs our spies abroad. Afterwards, he worked in Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s office (PMO).
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1 week ago | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Jinoy Jose P |Meena Kandasamy |Vaishna Roy
Dear reader,Let me tell you about the most remarkable literary long-distance relationship I have encountered in my reading life. Imagine being a political prisoner and thinking, “You know what would make this incarceration bearable?
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1 week ago | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Meena Kandasamy |Vaishna Roy
India’s police force has less than 1,000 women in senior positions like Director-Generals and Superintendents of Police, with 90 per cent of all women in policing serving in the constabulary, according to a new report.
The India Justice Report (IJR) 2025, initiated by Tata Trusts and supported by several civil society organisations and data partners, tracked the performance of States across four areas—police, judiciary, prisons, and legal aid.
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1 week ago | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Meena Kandasamy |Vaishna Roy
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1 week ago | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Amey Tirodkar |Meena Kandasamy |Vaishna Roy
A “pothole-free” city: That is what Mumbai’s Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), India’s richest civic body, plans for the metro. The city administration has excavated 525 km of roads—or one-fourth of Mumbai’s roads—in an ambitious bid concretise them. As a result, the populous city grapples with the massive traffic congestion, dust, air pollution; the project has upended the delivery of basic civic services.
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1 week ago | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Meena Kandasamy |Vaishna Roy |Sambaiah Gundimeda
“Unfortunately for me I was born a Hindu Untouchable. It was beyond my power to prevent that, but I declare that it is within my power to refuse to live under ignoble and humiliating conditions. I solemnly assure you that I will not die a Hindu,”1 thundered Dr Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar at a conference in Yeola, near Nashik, Maharashtra, on October 13, 1935, marking a decisive break with Hinduism and its oppressive caste structure. Yet, it took him over two decades to take the final step.
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1 week ago | 
frontline.thehindu.com | R.K. Radhakrishnan |Meena Kandasamy |Vaishna Roy
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin informed the Legislative Assembly on April 15 that the government was constituting a committee headed by former Supreme Court judge Kurian Joseph to protect State autonomy. The three-member committee will submit its interim report by the end of January 2026. The committee’s final report will take two years to materialise.
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1 week ago | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Meena Kandasamy |Vaishna Roy |Kalpish Ratna
The Silk Road! The dizzying words had entranced me since I was seven. Now that I was actually here, what would I find? It was my first morning in Samarkand, City of Stone. I had arrived in a confused blur of geography and exhaustion, and sat up half the night trying to make sense of both. From the airplane window, the tidal upheaval of mountains still seemed to surge with the chthonic passion that had moved them 50 million years ago.
