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Jun 26, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Vaishna Roy |Shamindra Nath Roy |Ashish Ranjan |Iftikhar Gilani
1990 Aramganj: A NovelRakesh Kayasth, translated by Varsha TiwaryEkaRs.499The protagonist is Ashiq Miyan, a Muslim tailor and Ram devotee who performs incredible feats at the annual Dussehra festival. He belongs to the mohalla of Aramganj, home to high- and low-caste Hindus, and Muslims. As L.K. Advani’s Rath Yatra is announced, Ashiq finds himself caught in a deadly web of politics and communal tension.
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Jun 26, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Mrityunjay K. Sharma |Supriy Ranjan |Vaishna Roy |Shamindra Nath Roy
Since the trail-blazing work of the journalist Arvind Narayan Das, scholastic works documenting the politics and society of Bihar have been steadily rising. A State mired in stark backwardness undergoing deep sociopolitical transformation has been of much interest to policymakers, journalists, academics, and activists alike. In recent years, a new trend of writing accessible non-fictional book-length tales documenting events and personalities of the State has kicked off.
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Jun 26, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Christophe Jaffrelot |Vaishna Roy |Shamindra Nath Roy |Ashish Ranjan
It is difficult to argue exactly at what point Hindu nationalism emerged as a potent force in India, especially in Gujarat, where Prime Minister Narendra Modi burnished his career as a populist leader with a particular finesse for the politics of polarisation.
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Jun 26, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Prathyush Parasuraman |Vaishna Roy |Shamindra Nath Roy |Ashish Ranjan
You are looking at a painting, say Gieve Patel’s Crows With A Debris (1999)—two crows are pecking at the remains of an animal flattened and decapitated by the tyre of a car or bike; the tyre mark is embossed on the grey surface of the tarred road, the grooves of the tyre outlined in blood; there is a used condom in the foreground and a fence with broken barbed wire in the background. An image of casual brutality and life being lived alongside it, feeding off of it.
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Jun 26, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Vaishna Roy |Shamindra Nath Roy |Ashish Ranjan |Iftikhar Gilani
Election 2024The mandate for the 18th Lok Sabha has rightly curtailed single-party dominance and restored the voice of the opposition (Cover Story, June 28). Over the past decade, the brute majority enjoyed by the ruling dispensation had resulted in the passage of Bills with little or no deliberation, mass suspensions and dismissal of opposition MPs, and the forcing through of contentious constitutional amendments.
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Jun 25, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Vaishna Roy |Ayesha Minhaz |Ashish Ranjan |Shamindra Nath Roy
Profiling Chandrababu Naidu in this issue, our writer Ayesha Minhaz speaks of how he was ousted after his second term largely because of the growing dissent among small and marginal farmers, whose unhappiness India’s original technocrat politician did not understand and did not prioritise.
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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.
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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.
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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.
