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Alok Shukla helped mobilise Adivasi communities across Chhattisgarh under the “Save Hasdeo Aranya Resistance Committee”. This has saved 4,45,000 acres of forests from no less than 21 proposed coal mines.
Interview

‘The Hasdeo movement is a model of resistance’: Alok Shukla

Divya Gandhi
BJP supporters at Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s election roadshow in Kalol on April 18, the day before he filed his nomination from Gandhinagar.
ELECTION 2024

The BJP is confident of pulling off a hat-trick in Gujarat

Amey Tirodkar
Daily wagers waiting for work, in Mumbai on June 11, 2021. Prospects for many people are drastically worse as salaried jobs vanish, incomes shrink, and inequality rises.
Controversy

Inheritance taxes: A key step towards reducing economic inequality

Even as PM Modi communalises the debate on inheritance taxes, it is imperative that we understand what the tax implies and how it can help the nation.
R. Ramakumar

Editor's Pick

PM Modi during a campaign rally in Agra, Uttar Pradesh, on April 25, 2024.
From the Sidelines

Modi ramps up rhetoric in Hindi heartland as BJP struggles to regain its sparkle

Waning voter enthusiasm and challenging electoral feedback in key regions force Modi to shed his Vishwaguru image and escalate communal rhetoric.
Saba Naqvi
ELECTION 2024

Caste returns to haunt BJP in Uttar Pradesh

The saffron party’s best-laid plans to sweep the country’s most populous State are in danger of being upended by the emergence of caste fault lines.
Anand Mishra
Election 2024

‘I raise my voice for all’: Chandra Shekhar Azad

“Right now, the country is in the hands of a dictator,” says the founder of the Bhim Army and the Azad Samaj Party.
Ismat Ara
Congress supporters at a roadshow in Bengaluru on April 3.
Election 2024

In Karnataka, it’s a battle of ‘guarantees’

The BJP has pitched “Modi ki Guarantee” against the Congress’ successful implementation of the Five Guarantees. 
Vikhar Ahmed Sayeed

Audio Stories

White Space

Farewell Appappan

Controversy

Why a proposed private port in Karnataka’s Honnavara faces stiff resistance from fisherfolk

State of the Opposition

India’s oscillating opposition and the dynamic evolution of protest politics

State of the Opposition

The crisis of the secular opposition

Spotlight

Spotlight

Environment

Why Dubai was deluged

What caused the massive rains? Cloud seeding? Climate change? El Niño? The answers are trickling in.
Jagdish Krishnaswamy

Photo Essay

Photo Essay

Photo Essay

Silent SOS

Wetland and mangrove birds now forage among plastic waste in urban areas because their natural habitats are all but gone.
Prasoon Kiran

Arts & Culture

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Propaganda — The Lede

Movie trailers: The unofficial manifestos of our time

Endlessly shared till its beliefs pass off as the truth, the film trailer mirrors our world: fact and fiction, blurred by repetition.
Lawrence Liang
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Propaganda

Editor’s Note: When cinema becomes a tool for propaganda

One always imagines that propaganda and brainwashing are modern inventions that Goebbels—aided by Leni Riefenstahl—perfected. Not true. It has been ar
Vaishna Roy
Propaganda

Rise of ‘Hindutva’ cinema

Harish S. Wankhede
Propaganda

Viral fever: The curious spectacle of campaign films

S.V. Srinivas
From the sidelines

Caught in a saffron storm

Saba Naqvi
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