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4 days ago | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Vivek Katju |Vaishna Roy
The four-day conflict from May 7 to May 10 has become a defining moment in India-Pakistan military relations, with Operation Sindoor generating intense analysis from defence experts across India, Pakistan, and internationally. At the heart of the debate lies a critical question: What really happened in the skies during those tense days of hostilities?
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4 days ago | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Suhrid Sankar Chattopadhyay |Vivek Katju |Vaishna Roy
On December 12, 2024, 18-year-old Gukesh Dommaraju created history by becoming the youngest-ever world chess champion. The teenage chess wizard from Chennai had beaten a star-studded line-up in the Candidates Tournament, including Super GMs (Grandmaster) like Fabiano Caruana, Hikaru Nakamura, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Alireza Firouzja, and others, before finally defeating the reigning world champion Ding Liren from China. But the crown did not rest easy on the young king’s head.
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4 days ago | 
frontline.thehindu.com | R.K. Radhakrishnan |Vivek Katju |Vaishna Roy
Despite the speedy investigation and June 2 sentencing of the accused in the Anna University sexual assault case, the opposition All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) and the BJP are not backing down from their charges: both political parties insist that there were serious lapses in the investigation. On December 23, 2024, a girl student was sexually assaulted by a local resident inside the Anna University campus.
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4 days ago | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Jinoy Jose P |Vivek Katju |Vaishna Roy
There is something ironic about Varun Grover’s origin story. Here is a man who has made a career out of making people uncomfortable with his razor-sharp wit and unflinching social commentary, yet his journey began in the most uncomfortable place imaginable: as the overweight kid getting bullied in school playgrounds across North India. “I was always either doing the umpiring in the cricket team or I was sitting on the sidelines,” Grover recalls with characteristic self-deprecation.
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4 days ago | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Saba Naqvi |Vivek Katju |Vaishna Roy
When Prime Minister Narendra Modi appeared in posters the past week wearing military fatigues, invoking Operation Sindoor, it may have been a dramatic image, but it was also a deeply problematic one. In most democracies, the visual of a civilian elected leader in combat should trigger unease, not applause. Across the border in Pakistan, we have seen what happens when military generals depose civilian rulers and then their strategies become central to statecraft.
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4 days ago | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Vivek Katju |Vaishna Roy
The seven MPs’ delegations the Narendra Modi government has despatched to some 32 countries worldwide include some of the best and most articulate of our Members of Parliament. They have proceeded to their respective destinations with detailed briefings by the Foreign Secretary and loads of background papers. Yet, a number of questions remain about what exactly they are supposed to accomplish.
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5 days ago | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Prathyush Parasuraman |Vivek Katju |Vaishna Roy
“It is only fitting that translations, like so much else, should reflect the times in which they are made,” Arshia Sattar concludes in her essay “Translation In English”, where she traces the long history of calls for the translation of Indian languages into English, beginning with William Jones’ Sacontala and Charles Wilkins’ The Bhagvet Geeta in the late 18th century—relics of an instrumental interest in a culture, where the Governor General encouraged traders and administrators to press up...
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5 days ago | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Vivek Katju |Vaishna Roy
In 2019, India saw an estimated 1.07 million people infected with deadly, drug-resistant bacteria. Fewer than 8 per cent received the treatment they needed. According to a new study published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases, “only 7.8% of infections [in India] were treated appropriately,” leaving almost a million patients without life-saving care. The bacteria in question are known as carbapenem-resistant Gram-negative (CRGN) organisms. These are not ordinary germs.
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5 days ago | 
frontline.thehindu.com | R.K. Radhakrishnan |Vivek Katju |Vaishna Roy
In what is seen as a deliberate and calculated interview to two international media organisations on the sidelines of the Shangri-La Dialogue security forum in Singapore, India’s Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), General Anil Chauhan, acknowledged the loss of Indian air assets on the first day of the war, without quantifying the losses. He was targeted viciously on social media by right-wing trolls aligned with the ruling BJP, just as Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri was earlier.
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1 week ago | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Vivek Katju |Vaishna Roy
Thirty-five years ago, millions of people around the world suddenly became “healthy”. It was on that day—May 17, 1990—that the World Health Organization (WHO) removed homosexuality from a list of human diseases. Until then, same-sex love was considered as a kind of mental illness. Those affected were often locked up in sanatoriums or prisons and “treated” with electric shock therapy and other questionable psychotherapies.
