Paromita Vohra

Jun 25, 2024 | frontline.thehindu.com | Shamindra Nath Roy |Ashish Ranjan |Anand Mishra |Paromita Vohra

In which areas exactly did the BJP lose the majority? In this article we analyse the outcome of Election 2024 in rural and urban areas across the country. Although India is primarily a rural country (the national urbanisation rate was 31.1 per cent in the 2011 Census) and the urban electorate makes up only 35 per cent of the total electorate, the pace of urban transformation is high. According to the UN, about 675 million people will be living in cities by 2035.

Jun 25, 2024 | frontline.thehindu.com | Ayesha Minhaz |Ashish Ranjan |Anand Mishra |Paromita Vohra

The name Nara Chandrababu Naidu means many things to many people: the Chief Minister and exceptional technocrat who steered Hyderabad into an information technology hub, a Telugu leader who put Andhra Pradesh on the global map, an obsessively hard-working politician and reliable patron for members of his Kamma community, a skilful negotiator who brought World Bank funds to the State, an astute businessman, and, on the flip side, someone who favoured industry over agriculture and subjected it...

Jun 24, 2024 | frontline.thehindu.com | Paromita Vohra |Anand Mishra |Shamindra Nath Roy |Ashish Ranjan

On June 4, even as election results unfolded a changed political equation, Rahul Gandhi appeared in an intriguing place: the X account @archivedilfs. Expanding the acronym DILF may be more than this venerable journal can bring itself to do. For those who do not know, it stands for what some people might like to do to a Zaddy, or attractive older man, especially in the queer universe.

Jun 22, 2024 | frontline.thehindu.com | Sushanta Talukdar |Anand Mishra |Paromita Vohra |Shamindra Nath Roy

Manipur’s Jiribam district, a region with a mixed demography, had been relatively peaceful and largely unaffected by the violent clashes between Meitei and Kuki-Zo groups over the past year. That changed on June 6 when Soibam Saratkumar Singh, a 59-year-old Meitei farmer, went missing and his mutilated body was found later that day. Following the killing, several houses were set ablaze by armed miscreants, resulting in the forced displacement of about 2,000 people belonging to both communities.

Dec 28, 2023 | frontline.thehindu.com | Paromita Vohra |Prabhat Patnaik |Vaishna Roy

For a while, after years of disdain, surprising numbers of people were all “I’m lovin’ it” when it came to Rahul Gandhi. They shared images from the Bharat Jodo Yatra and Instagram videos where university students asked Gandhi about his skin-care regimen (“I never use soap on my face”), vegetable preferences (“sab chalta hai”, everything goes except spinach, peas and karela), and matrimony (“I’m married to my job”).