South India continues to elude the BJP despite the relentless onslaught of Hindutva. Will this Lok Sabha election prove any different?

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23-02-202432 STORIES

Tuberculosis has a gene link

In this edition of Science Notebook, we also see how an international team of scientists has detected the most powerful cosmic ray in more than three

R. Ramachandran

Good Muslim, Bad Muslim

What exactly do we mean when we call something Islamophobic?

Prathyush Parasuraman

An intoxicating history of opium

In Smoke and Ashes, Amitav Ghosh exposes colonialism’s true legacy and its echoes in today’s crises—all through the lens of the poppy.

Amitangshu Acharya

Why are we not reading the likes of Jussawalla and Mehrotra?

Despite critical acclaim, Adil Jussawalla and Arvind Krishna Mehrotra’s later works remain overlooked. It is time to rediscover these poetry pioneers.

Vivek Narayanan

India’s women athletes: Running for their lives

The athletes Sohini Chattopadhyay profiles have all led challenging lives, but shoddy editing weakens the grace of the author’s tribute.

Playing our lives, on a loop

Raj Kamal Jha’s Patient in Bed Number 12 is as much about the COVID-19 pandemic as about other plagues seeded by us that continue to rage.

Latha Anantharaman

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