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SRI LANKA PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION 2024

Younger generations—both in the south and north—want to see change in politics: Ahilan Kadirgamar

The sociology professor and activist says the new government needs to meet the aspirations of not just the singular people, but minorities as well.
Amit Baruah
Maharashtra Assembly Election

No need for ‘Batenge toh Katenge’ narrative in Maharashtra, focus should be on development: Pankaja Munde

The senior BJP leader and MLC says the “fake narrative” that worked in MVA’s favour during the Lok Sabha election will not sway voters.
Amey Tirodkar
MAHARASHTRA ASSEMBLY ELECTION 2024

I am sure people want change: Sharad Pawar

The veteran politician says while welfare schemes of the Mahayuti government may have had some impact, rising inflation negates all those benefits.
Amey Tirodkar
Interviews

Maharashtra Assembly Election 2024: The talking heads

As the State goes to the polls on November 20, here is a collection of conversations with crucial leaders whose campaigns will decide the verdict.
TEAM FRONTLINE

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Balasaheb Thorat speaks to the media in Mumbai on October 26.

This battle is for the soul of Maharashtra: Balasaheb Thorat

Congress leader slams BJP’s “graceless manoeuvrings”, says MVA will secure 180 seats, and argues welfare schemes cannot save an “illegal” government.
Amey Tirodkar
Eleven of the 15 women members of the Constituent Assembly: back row (standing, from left): Kamala Chaudhri, Sucheta Kripalani, G. Durgabai, Begum Qudsia Aizaz Rasul, Purnima Banerji, Dakshayani Velayudhan. Front row (sitting, from left): Renuka Ray, Hansa Mehta, Amrit Kaur, Annie Mascarene, Ammu Swaminathan.

‘History books invisibilised contributions of women leaders in forging modern India’

Angellica Aribam and Akash Satyawali, authors of The Fifteen, on how 15 women fought patriarchy and helped shape the world’s longest constitution.
Abhinav Chakraborty
Nationalist Congress Party’s Maharashtra unit president and Raigad Lok Sabha MP Sunil Tatkare in Mumbai on June 10, 2024.

I would say ‘absolute majority’ for the Mahayuti: Sunil Tatkare

Four months after the Lok Sabha defeat, the Maharashtra NCP chief sees the political tide turning through welfare schemes and development push.
Amey Tirodkar
BJP leader Ashish Shelar. Shelar says that the BJP could not meet expectations in the 2024 Lok Sabha election and is fully prepared to counter all kinds of misleading narratives and campaigns in the upcoming Maharashtra Assembly election.

During Uddhav Thackeray’s tenure, many had to leave Mumbai–he needs to answer for that: Ashish Shelar

The BJP leader challenges former Chief Minister Thackeray’s credentials as a champion of local interests.
Amey Tirodkar
Aaditya Thackeray on his way to file his nomination papers in Worli, Mumbai, on October 24, 2024.

My focus for the election is jobs: Aaditya Thackeray

Shiv Sena (UBT) leader promises employment-focussed agenda, and criticises industrial exodus from Maharashtra under the current government.
Amey Tirodkar
Jacob says all of China’s foreign and security policies are based on strong domestic drivers and fundamentals.

There is a reality of a power differential, and these negotiations have been hard: Jabin T. Jacob

The Associate Professor discusses the current state of India-China relations, recent developments along the LAC, and their strategic implications.
Amit Baruah

Haryana and J&K elections: What’s the deal?

Election analyst Ashish Ranjan attributes social engineering to be the main factor for the BJP’s victory in Haryana and upstaging the Congress in J&K.
Saba Naqvi
Mirwaiz Umar Farooq says this election was a vote against the BJP and the policies of Narendra Modi’s government.

This mandate is against the unilateral changes initiated by New Delhi after 2019: Mirwaiz Umar Farooq

The Hurriyat Conference Chairman says Article 370, Article 35A, statehood, land, etc. trumped the usual sadak, bijli, paani issues in this election.
Amit Baruah
Election analyst Ashish Ranjan

BJP has successfully mobilised non-dominant groups: Ashish Ranjan

The election analyst deconstructs the results of the Assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir and Haryana.
Saba Naqvi
Jerry Pinto: “What led you to the bhakti poem is its mutability, its subtlety, its multivalence.”

Bhakti is a matter of fire and blood: Jerry Pinto

Translator of Marathi saint-poets’ abhangs talks about the passion and peril of devotional poetry, and why it demands new interpretations across time.
Varsha Tiwary
A. Soundararajan, general secretary of CITU, Tamil Nadu says Samsung is determined to prevent unions by resorting to aggressive methods.

Our main demand is recognition of the union; if that happens, we will call off strike: A. Soundararajan

The Tamil Nadu CITU general secretary says this strike is about workers’ constitutional right to form associations under Article 19(1).
Siddarth Muralidharan
E. Muthukumar, president of the Samsung India Workers Union, hopes that this strike ends in victory for the workers.

No difference between what is said by Samsung and Tamil Nadu government: E. Muthukumar

The SIWU president states that the strike focusses on the right to unionise and says victory for trade union rights is a victory for everyone.
Siddarth Muralidharan
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