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Nov 11, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Geetanjali Shree |Daisy Rockwell |Tarun K. Saint |Vikhar Ahmed Sayeed
Geetanjali Shree acquired well-deserved international recognition when she was awarded the International Booker Prize in 2022 for her novel Tomb of Sand, translated by Daisy Rockwell from the Hindi original, Ret Samadhi. This novel has since entered the pantheon of the finest works of Partition literature. As a chronicler of the continuing afterlife of Partition, Shree has been able to generate new insights, often from a distinctive feminist point of view.
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Nov 11, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Saba Naqvi |Vikhar Ahmed Sayeed |P.S. Munawar Hussain |Tarun K. Saint
Right-wing political parties and populist leaders across the world thrive on the Us vs Them narrative. In the US, President-elect Donald Trump spoke darkly about the enemies within (those who oppose him) and the immigrants (“who eat pet cats and dogs”). In Europe, all parties on the right of the ideological spectrum view immigrants with suspicion and turn people against people on the basis of race, ethnicity, and religion.
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Nov 9, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Saba Naqvi |Vikhar Ahmed Sayeed |P.S. Munawar Hussain |Tarun K. Saint
On June 4, 2005, the venerated business house of the Tatas signed an agreement to set up a steel plant in Bastar, Chhattisgarh. Virtually on the same day, a private militia known as Salwa Judum (“Peace March” or “Purification Hunt” in south Chhattisgarh’s Gondi language) emerged in Bastar to protect the interests of the investors. Mahendra Karma, the Congress party’s leader in the Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly, led and controlled Salwa Judum.
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Aug 24, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Tarun K. Saint |C.P. Chandrasekhar |Vaishna Roy
“They are in flames, they’reall burning!” screamed the man running by, his turban askew and his face blackened with ashes and cinders. Like an apparition from a dark fantasy, he crossed the road and continued in his flight, without a glance backward. I came to an abrupt halt. I had set out on foot from home as on many a day, headed for my friend Damandeep’s house. But today was unlike any day ever before, after the assassination of the Prime Minister by her Sikh bodyguards.
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Jun 5, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | R. Ramachandran |Tarun K. Saint |Vaishna Roy |T.K. Rajalakshmi
2023: The hottest summer yetSCIENTISTS have determined that 2023 was the hottest summer in the Northern Hemisphere in the past 2000 years, almost 4 degrees warmer than the coldest summer in the same period. Instrumental evidence only reaches back as far as 1850 at best, and most records are limited to certain regions.
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May 30, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Prathyush Parasuraman |Tarun K. Saint |Manu Pillai
The Penguin Book of Korean Short StoriesTranslated and edited by Bruce Fulton, Introduction by Kwon YoungminPenguin ClassicsRs.550This essential introduction to Korean literature travels from the Japanese occupation and the colonial era to the traumatic war between North and South and the breakneck urbanisation of later decades. Featuring some of Korea’s biggest writers, it deftly captures 100 years of the country’s vibrant short-story tradition.
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May 30, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Vaishna Roy |Prathyush Parasuraman |Tarun K. Saint |Manu Pillai
We are caught between two extremes. If on the one hand there is what John Berger in his novel A Painter of Our Time described as “an accumulated absence of sound” around issues such as Manipur or other topics of national importance such as China’s incursions, there is on the other hand “an accumulated presence of sound”, if I may paraphrase Berger.
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May 30, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Angana Chakrabarti |Prathyush Parasuraman |Tarun K. Saint |Manu Pillai
All my life I’ve been waiting for,I’ve been prayin’ for, for the people to sayThat we don’t wanna fight no moreThere’ll be no more wars and our children will play. In March 2024, six singers from the Kuki-Zo community in Manipur released the cover of a song titled “One Day”.
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May 29, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Greeshma Kuthar |Tarun K. Saint |Vaishna Roy |T.K. Rajalakshmi
A year after ethnic violence erupted in Manipur, a charge sheet filed by the National Investigating Agency (NIA) at a Guwahati court on May 14 alleged that the NSCN (IM) has been helping the cadre of banned Meitei insurgent outfits Kanglei Yaol Kanba Lup (KYKL) and the People’s Liberation Army of Manipur (PLA) enter the country “in order to exploit the current ethnic unrest in Manipur” and “with intent to carry out violent terror attacks targeting the rival Kuki-Zo community with prohibited...
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May 25, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Saba Naqvi |Prathyush Parasuraman |Tarun K. Saint |Manu Pillai
On June 4, we will know whether Narendra Modi will win a third term as Prime Minister or not. His party gets a simple majority in the Lok Sabha if the BJP wins 272 of the 543 seats. As we wait with bated breath for the results, instead of engaging with the inevitably frenetic number-crunching of probable losses or gains in each State, this column examines what could happen in the event of different outcomes, ranging from 310 to 210 seats, for the BJP. Scenario 1: 272 to 310 seats for the BJP.
