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Iran War 2026: US Strategy and Global South Crisis
6+ hour, 18+ min ago (452+ words) Published : Mar 06, 2026 18:52 IST - 6 MINS READ As February ended, a stunned world tracked with disbelief the unwarranted war on Iran declared by the US under President Donald Trump and Israel under Prime Minister Benjamin'Netanyahu. But there are longer-term implications of the…...
From Courtroom Battles to Parliament: Menaka Guruswamy’s Next Arena
6+ hour, 27+ min ago (987+ words) Published : Mar 06, 2026 18:42 IST "These young people need to be unafraid to love and be loved, and they should be protected by this court," she pleaded before the court. Court room Number 1 in the Supreme Court was choc-a-bloc with lawyers who…...
US-Israel Strike Backfires as Iran Regime Survives
7+ hour, 21+ min ago (395+ words) Published : Mar 06, 2026 17:48 IST - 11 MINS READ This rapid institutional response indicates that the Iranian state had long ago baked in the risk of leadership loss into its organisational DNA. Political analyst Hossein Royvaran notes that this was not improvisation, but the…...
A French 'grandmother' brings alive the early days of Santiniketan
9+ hour, 48+ min ago (637+ words) Published : Mar 06, 2026 20:22 IST Like many others, L'vi was drawn by the poet's idea of an institution in the lap of nature, for it held the promise of broadening vision and the cross-pollination of cultures. He taught Sanskrit and Indian religions…...
Post-Colonial Nationalism and the Western Far Right: Why the Comparison Fails
9+ hour, 49+ min ago (749+ words) Published : Mar 06, 2026 19:58 IST - 6 MINS READ 'Nationalism' is a slippery word, but in the contemporary Western imagination it has come to signify something quite specific. It often denotes an exclusionary politics obsessed with immigration and cultural purity. Often, the defence of…...
Why Young Bollywood Actors are Choosing a Different Type of Masculinity
1+ day, 7+ hour ago (221+ words) Published : Mar 05, 2026 22:28 IST Also Read | Dhurandhar's empty chair Ranveer Singh, Ranbir Kapoor, Varun Dhawan, Hrithik Roshan, Shah Rukh Khan'their predecessors used to make these kinds of films too: stories where intimacy with women and the textures of daily life were…...
US–Israel attack on Iran and the widening geopolitical fallout
1+ day, 15+ hour ago (258+ words) Published : Mar 05, 2026 14:51 IST - 6 MINS READ Trump got his regime change, but he never considered that it would change to a harder regime. He could not foresee that his war would become a religious war, possibly because religion plays no role…...
West Bengal’s SIR and the Politics of Voter Roll Deletions
1+ day, 17+ hour ago (283+ words) Published : Mar 05, 2026 12:02 IST - 8 MINS READ Genuine voters were left suspended in digital limbo, neither rejected nor accepted, simply erased from the immediate democratic present. Political theorists and scholars of Indian citizenship have documented how modern democracies can govern through what…...
AI Anxiety and the Return to the Stage: Why Live Theatre Is Regaining Political and Cultural Urgency
2+ day, 5+ hour ago (315+ words) Published : Mar 04, 2026 20:36 IST - 10 MINS READ I have been thinking about that night again, though not with mere nostalgia. Something about our present moment keeps pulling me back to it. KPAC, as theatre historians note, played a direct role in the…...
The Kerala Story 2 and the Politics of Manufactured Fear
2+ day, 7+ hour ago (810+ words) Published : Mar 04, 2026 16:33 IST - 17 MINS READ The film's trailer has intensified the debate. The controversy triggers a larger question: how does cinema handle fraught subjects such as migration, conversion, faith, and gender? And when does storytelling begin to harden into ideology?...