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MCD’s heritage initiative includes immersive heritage walks across Delhi’s historical landmarks such as the Humayun’s Tomb.

Cultural Preservation

How private companies turn Delhi’s heritage sites into luxury destinations

Vedaant Lakhera,Vitasta Kaul

Walmik Karad. A close aide of Maharashtra State Minister and NCP leader Dhananjay Munde, Karad surrendered before the CID in connection with the Beed sarpanch murder case, in Pune on December 31, 2024.

Beed sarpanch’s murder uncovers Maharashtra’s criminal politics

Money, muscle, and political protection sustain Beed’s lawless ecosystem, where figures such as Walmik Karad operate with impunity.

Amey Tirodkar

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Are J-schools losing their mojo?

Mridula Vijayarangakumar

Opposition piles up pressure on DMK government over sexual assault at Anna University

R.K. Radhakrishnan

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It was in the 1980s that MT was most prolific and commercially successful. During this decade, an MT script was considered a sure box office hit.

M.T. Vasudevan Nair (1933-2024): A chronicler of the ‘internal Malayalee life’

Through literature and cinema, MT rejected both feudalism and consumer greed, championing freedom of expression and our culture’s plural legacies.

C.S. Venkiteswaran

Sangita Kalanidhi T.M. Krishna giving a vocal concert at the Music Academy on December 25, 2024.

MADRAS MARGAZHI

T.M. Krishna’s Music Academy concert: A return to the fold on his own terms

Music reigns supreme as rasikas ignore politics and the controversy surrounding the outspoken Carnatic vocalist during his housefull Margazhi concert.

Lakshmi Sreeram

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at the ceremonial reception hosted in honour of Maldivian President Abdulla Yameen in New Delhi on January 2, 2014. | Photo Credit: REUTERS

Manmohan Singh’s final days in office: The shaping of a complex legacy

Manmohan Singh was calm and unruffled in his final days as Prime Minister. He was convinced that people would one day appreciate his role.

VCK president Thol. Thirumavalavan speaking at the party’s liquor prohibition conference at Ulundurpet in Kallakurichi district in October 2024. In recent months, the party’s credibility has suffered a significant dent among its allies in the DMK-led combine.

Coalition politics

Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi: Walking the tight rope

For long-term survival in the State, the outfit must balance Dalit exclusivism and political mainstreaming within the framework of Dravidian politics.

Ilangovan Rajasekaran

Audio Stories

Waste Management Crisis

A sacred forest dies in Gurugram as Bandhwari landfill’s toxic waste breaches Aravalli sanctuary

Vedanta’s oil exploration plan threatens Assam’s last gibbon sanctuary

When did Musi beautification become about erasing the poor?

Random enforcement of KYC rules is denying the poor their own money and dignity

Spotlight

Tomato farmers of Jharkhand protest the lack of support prices by throwing away their produce on NH-33 near Ranchi in January 2017. There have been several such protests across the country in the past 10 years.

Agriculture in the age of inequality

Workers of Maruti Suzuki India Ltd on an indefinite strike outside the New Delhi office, demanding revisions to their wages, incentives, and pension, in September 2000.

The steady immiseration of labour

Sudha Bharadwaj

Protestors decry the silence of the government at the Centre on the lynchings and violent attacks on Muslims in India in June 2017.

An unfraternal democracy

While neighbours fell to majoritarianism, India stayed pluralist, if imperfectly. What helped it resist so long, and why did it finally give in?

Students at a panchayat primary school at Paralipiludur near Natham in Dindigul district, Tamil Nadu, on December 3, 2024.

The blackboard crisis

Patients outside a primary health centre in Bidupur, Vaishali district, Bihar, on August 9, 2016. A composite health index drawn up by the NITI Aayog in 2019-20 places Kerala, Tamil Nadu, and Telangana at the top with Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, and Madhya Pradesh at the bottom, among the larger States.

All is not well

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