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Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi (VBA) president Prakash Ambedkar.
Interview

‘It’s Modi vs the masses in 2024’: Prakash Ambedkar

Amey Tirodkar
Nabam Tuki, the Congress candidate from Arunachal West, during an election campaign in Palin town on April 7.
ELECTION 2024

An unexpected twist in Arunachal Pradesh

Sushanta Talukdar
DMK election campaign rally at Pethanayakkanpalayam in Salem, which is part of the Kongu region of Tamil Nadu. The DMK has turned to pragmatic long-term solutions to regain control of the region from the AIADMK.
Election 2024

The battle for Kongu Nadu

The DMK banks on two-pronged strategy in the Kongu region of western Tamil Nadu to break AIADMK’s dominance.
Ilangovan Rajasekaran
Ilangovan Rajasekaran

Editor's Pick

A Kuki woman looks at an election awareness poster put by election officials on an autorickshaw in violence-affected Churachandpur district of Manipur on April 11.
ELECTION 2024

Manipur’s divided election

The year-long violence with no political intervention has left the people more concerned about their future than electoral politics. 
Suwa Lal Jangu
Interview

‘There is a groundswell of support for the RJD’: Tejashwi Yadav

The RJD leader says this Lok Sabha election is about “reclaiming all that is good and decent in politics and governance”.
Anand Mishra
From the sidelines

Caught in a saffron storm

The BJP might win the three Muslim-dominant seats in Uttar Pradesh, but attributing it solely to Hindutva mobilisation would be a mistake.
Saba Naqvi
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee campaigning for Cooch Behar’s Trinamool candidate Jagadish Chandra Barma Basunia on April 4. The Trinamool Congress’ electoral trump card is the Lakshmir Bhandar scheme.
ELECTION 2024

Trinamool fights back in north Bengal

It is a tough battle for the BJP in north Bengal, where six constituencies vote in the first two phases.
Suhrid Sankar Chattopadhyay

Audio Stories

Environment

Why the tiger-human conflict rages in Bandipur and Nagarahole

Kerala’s brain drain: How student migration impacts society

Farmers’ Protest 2.0

Farmers’ protest: It’s a battle against servitude

Tribute

Fali S. Nariman (1929-2024): A life dedicated to the Constitution’s promise

Spotlight

Spotlight

WEB EXCLUSIVE

‘The SCs do not want a fill-in-the-blanks Chief Minister for Bihar’: Jitan Ram Manjhi 

The former Bihar Chief Minister says the Scheduled Caste communities want as CM someone who can resolve their long-pending problems.
Anand Mishra

Photo Essay

Photo Essay

Photo Essay

Bone connection

Animals inhabited the earth long before we did, and yet we have usurped their space. This series explores our relationship with the non-human beings.
Asha Thadani,Anusua Mukherjee

Arts & Culture

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Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) Chief Mohan Bhagwat during the “Samaj Shakti Sangam” event in Ahmedabad on April 14, 2023.
Electoral Bonds — The Lede

The totalitarian project behind the electoral bonds scheme

Beyond trade-offs and extortion, the scheme goes to the very heart of the Sangh Parivar’s long-term goal of an ideological dictatorship.
Paranjoy Guha Thakurta,Abir Dasgupta
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When the skeletons came tumbling out after the Supreme Court demanded full disclosure in the electoral bonds scheme, it did not really surprise anyone.
Electoral Bonds

Editor’s Note: Electoral bonds, and our tumbledown democracy

The BJP exudes an almost contemptuous confidence that no revelations can derail its ultimate victory. Where does this confidence come from? 
Vaishna Roy
Electoral Bonds

‘It was not about transparency at all’: Lokesh Batra

T.K. Rajalakshmi
Electoral Bonds

Electoral bonds: Why it is a giant scam

Meghnad S
Electoral Bonds

‘There is a lot still unaccounted for’: Jagdeep S. Chhokar

T.K. Rajalakshmi
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