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Frontline is a biweekly English magazine released by The Hindu Group, based in Chennai, India. The magazine is led by editor-in-chief R Vijaya Sankar. As a current affairs publication, it addresses both national and global news. Frontline highlights important developmental issues and challenges faced by different Indian states. In addition to politics and political economy, it explores a diverse array of subjects, including arts, literature, cinema, science, and the English language.

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In Image We Trust | The Frontline Newsletter

2 days ago | frontline.thehindu.com | Jinoy Jose P |Gowhar Geelani |Vaishna Roy

“In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation.” — Guy Debord, 1967. Dear reader,I remember the first time I realised I was living inside a “spectacle”. It happened during a job interview in 2020, when a media founder leaned forward with alarming intensity and asked, “So, do you have a YouTube channel? Any televised events?
Lack of transparency is dangerous; could lead to another conflict: Ayesha Siddiqa

2 days ago | frontline.thehindu.com | Gowhar Geelani |Vaishna Roy |Nirupama Subramanian

On May 10, India and Pakistan declared a ceasefire after a dangerous escalation of hostilities between the two nuclear-armed neighbours. Earlier, on May 7, India had carried out what it described as targeted strikes on terrorist infrastructure in Pakistan. This was in retaliation for a terrorist attack in Kashmir on April 22 that killed 26 people. In an exhaustive interview, well-known Pakistani political and strategic affairs commentator Ayesha Siddiqa offers her perspective on these events.
Caste Census 2025: How Bihar Became Ground Zero for India’s New Political Arithmetic

6 days ago | frontline.thehindu.com | Anand Mishra |Gowhar Geelani |Vaishna Roy

The Centre’s sudden announcement on April 30 to conduct a caste census seems to have thrown poll-bound Bihar’s politics into turmoil. Coming just six months before the Assembly election, the move will force all parties to recalibrate their strategies.
India-Pakistan Ceasefire After Operation Sindoor: US Mediation, Nuclear Tensions, and What Comes Next

6 days ago | frontline.thehindu.com | Gowhar Geelani |Vaishna Roy

Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri on Saturday (May 10) confirmed that India had agreed to a ceasefire with Pakistan after the latter reached out. Shortly before that, US President Donald Trump stated that India and Pakistan had agreed to a “full and immediate ceasefire” after a fourth day of strikes and counter-strikes against each other’s military installations. “The Director General of Military Operations (DGMO) of Pakistan called the DGMO of India at 15.30 hours (3.30 pm) this afternoon.
Media Misinformation Fuels Anti-Kashmiri and Anti-Muslim Narrative After Pahalgam Attack

6 days ago | frontline.thehindu.com | Gowhar Geelani |Vaishna Roy |Quratulain Rehbar

Eighty-two kilometres from Srinagar, in the shadow of empty hotels, shops, and shuttered guesthouses, three shopkeepers sit on the pavement outside, their eyes fixed on the phone screen. They are watching a YouTube video featuring a vlogger called B Boys who has 2.44 million subscribers on YouTube. He is seen roaming Srinagar city with a camera, pressing Kashmiris to speak out on the recent terror attack that killed 25 Hindu tourists and one local Muslim. “Why don’t you come out and protest?
Why the 2025 Caste Census Must Recognize Pasmanda Muslims

6 days ago | frontline.thehindu.com | Ali Ansari |Gowhar Geelani |Vaishna Roy

Rahul Gandhi’s relentless campaign for a caste census has finally prompted the Narendra Modi government to announce that caste enumeration will be part of the next national census. While the government is keen to take credit for it, the reality tells us otherwise: it was Opposition pressure on the issue which forced the BJP to change its stand. The caste census is indeed a significant development, but merely determining the OBC population won’t be enough.
Censorship Surge in India Undermines Independent Journalism

6 days ago | frontline.thehindu.com | Gowhar Geelani |Vaishna Roy

On May 8, the prominent social media platform X said it was forced to block more than 8,000 accounts in India following executive orders from the government. Those affected by the ban told Frontline that it “blatantly violates the law of the land” and that the “irrational censorship sets a bad precedent for free speech in a democracy”.
Franz Kafka, Dino Buzzati, E.M. Forster: Literature on Hate, War, and Heroism

6 days ago | frontline.thehindu.com | Anusua Mukherjee |Gowhar Geelani |Vaishna Roy

Dear Reader,It has been quite some time since I was completely befuddled by a book, but in a good way. I picked up Dino Buzzati’s The Tartar Steppe inspired by J.M. Coetzee’s recommendation of it—“A strange and haunting novel, an eccentric classic”—and boy, oh boy, isn’t he right!Reading the book, one realises why Coetzee endorses it—The Tartar Steppe has the Coetzian quality of being uncompromising.
India’s Caste Census and the Rohini Report: Will Subcategorisation Reshape Social Justice?

6 days ago | frontline.thehindu.com | Gowhar Geelani |Vaishna Roy |Mahendra Kumar Singh

The Narendra Modi government’s recent announcement of a nationwide caste census marks a turning point in India’s evolving journey towards social justice. In a polity increasingly shaped by identity politics, the decision has the potential to shift the discourse from tokenistic representation to data-driven equity.
Caste Census: BJP’s Pivot, Rahul’s Pressure, and a New Social Justice Playbook

6 days ago | frontline.thehindu.com | Anand Mishra |Gowhar Geelani |Vaishna Roy

The Union government’s decision to include caste enumeration in the next census marks a significant departure from the BJP’s earlier dithering and the RSS’s caution on the issue. It is a move with far-reaching ramifications for the polity.