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Pakistan army soldiers stand at a tunnel where the Jaffar Express train was attacked by separatist militants, in Bolan, Balochistan, Pakistan, March 15, 2025.

Jaffar Express attack: Rising insurgency puts Pakistan on the edge

US President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Narendra Modi prepare to shake hands as they attend a joint press conference at the White House in Washington, DC on February 13.

Democracy’s dark spiral

Democracies in India and the US are caught in a vortex of oligarchy, driven by hatred and despair, leaving their ideals gasping for survival.

Ashoka Mody

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A burning vehicle near Keithelmanbi in Manipur on March 8, 2025.

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Mission Manipur: Free Movement?

What happened in Manipur on March 8 when the government’s free-movement initiative was sought to be imposed? A report from the ground.

Greeshma Kuthar

A Trinamool Congress delegation after meeting with the Election Commission over EPIC number duplication, in New Delhi on March 11.

EPIC lapse deepens Election Commission’s credibility crisis

The Election Commission of India faces tough questions for ignoring a decades-old voter ID flaw, now exploding into a full-blown controversy.

The leatherback turtle is the world’s largest sea turtle species, renowned for its distinctive leathery shell and remarkable long-distance migrations. This photo captures one of these turtles laying eggs on a secluded beach in the Great Nicobar Islands.

Are Giant Leatherback hatchlings from Galathea Bay being relocated?

The recent release of turtle hatchlings on an unsuitable and non-natal beach in Great Nicobar raises conservation questions.

Rishika Pardikar

Global economic instability, driven by U.S. tariff policies and inflationary pressures, compounds India’s domestic challenges, including a K-shaped recovery marked by stagnant wages and slumping consumer spending.

SUM AND SUBSTANCE

Mirror mirror on the wall, who is the most fragile of them all?

Amid Trump’s tariffs and a K-shaped divide, India’s fragile growth stares into a storm of inflation, job slumps, and vanishing savings.

Mitali Mukherjee

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Hasdeo Arand and the manufacturing of tribal consent

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UGC’s new university leadership rules could imperil academic independence

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Donald Trump deliver a joint press statement after their meeting at the White House, in Washington, DC, on February 13.

India’s new trade gamble

C.P. Chandrasekhar

A paramilitary soldier stands guard at a railway station in Sibi district of Balochistan on March 12 during a security operation against militants a day after they hijacked a passenger train. Attacks by separatists have been on the rise in Balochistan.

Caught between Beijing and Washington, Pakistan faces internal chaos

Soni Sori in New Delhi on March 8, 2016.

‘Paramilitary forces dance after killing Adivasis’: Soni Sori

Leader, prisoner, survivor, and activist from Dantewada, Sori says that the state is killing Adivasis in Chhattisgarh by labelling them Maoists.

Meena Kandasamy

A potter in Bhupathipur village of Peddapalli district, Telangana. People pursuing traditional occupations look forward to the State’s caste survey to address the needs of socially and educationally backward classes, Dalits, and tribes, as mandated by the Constitution.

Who truly speaks for Telangana’s backward classes?

A still from Baksho Bondi (2024). Set in suburban Kolkata, the film has sequences of the protagonist Maya (played by Tillotama Shome) riding a bicycle for commuting to work.

Baksho Bondi: Behind the Bengali indie film’s journey to the 75th Berlinale

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Near the fallen minaret of a destroyed mosque, in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza Strip on March 7.

Gaza: What’s Next?—The Lede

Israel-Hamas war: A geopolitical earthquake that redefined West Asia and global politics

It has forced Israel back into dependence on the U.S., affected Iran, Lebanon, Syria, and Türkiye, and even expanded China’s role in the region.

Iftikhar Gilani

An elderly Palestinian man picks flowers from a field next to building rubble, ahead of the iftar fast-breaking meal during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, in their tent at the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on March 5, 2025.

Gaza: What’s Next?

Editor’s Note: The West’s bottomless greed created Gaza and Ukraine crises

These conflicts strip Western liberal democracy—Fukuyama’s proclaimed “final form of human government”—of its pretence, exposing a miserable failure.

Gaza: What’s Next?

The two-state solution died a long time ago: Gideon Levy

Bashir Ali Abbas

Gaza: What’s Next?

Sooner or later there will be a reaction: Tariq Ali

Gaza: What’s Next?

The price of moral absolution: An extract from The World After Gaza by Pankaj Mishra

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