Vaishna Roy-Frontline

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People at the Jama Masjid mosque in Old Delhi, India.

Editor’s Note: Putting Muslims in their place?

Behind the façade of Waqf reforms lies a sinister and systematic campaign to further marginalise the country’s largest minority.

A child injured during an Israeli operation in the Jabalia refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip awaits treatment at the Al-Ahli Arab hospital in Gaza City on October 21, 2024. Since October 7, 2023, some 42,000 Palestinians have been killed, entire villages and towns razed, and hospitals and schools destroyed.

Editor’s Note: The ghosts of Gaza

If the world will not call it by its name even now, it won’t be able to stop another Holocaust from happening.

In the post-COVID era, most jobs other than agriculture are being created in the self-employed, labour, or gig areas, all casual work.

Editor’s Note: How India squanders its demographic dividend

Millions of educated youth face unemployment as policies fail to bridge the gap between skills and job market demands. The next decade is crucial.

The upside of a lasting ceasefire between India and Pakistan cannot be overstressed.

Editor’s Note: India needs to do more to promote South Asian cooperation

This would allow regional agreements on trade, climate, and energy to flourish, which would actually benefit India the most.

Editor’s Note: A powerful, defining moment

The Hema Committee Report shows there is hope that the omertà enforced by powerful men in the film industry will be broken.

Conservative societies vest the idea of “honour” solely in female bodies, thus deeply stigmatising rape victims, a sentiment then internalised by women, and in turn giving rise to the horrific idea that rape is a fate worse than death, thus completing the cycle of female devaluation.

Editor’s Note: Who will educate the boy child?

Stricter laws are not enough to address India’s rape culture—the real solution lies in dismantling patriarchy from the ground up.

To now create artificial rifts and systematically strip States of fiscal rights, as the Centre is doing, is destructive.

Editor’s Note: The Centre is stripping States of their fiscal rights

The BJP-led Centre openly favours ally States over opposition-ruled ones to boost its “double engine” electoral strategy.

The election in Maharashtra, India’s third largest State and its wealthiest, could well spell the end of some of its political players.

Editor’s Note: Maharashtra is in some serious trouble today

Its infrastructure is a mess, its record of farmer suicides is frightening, and, most worryingly, its sociopolitical fabric is being rent apart.

In India, 2023 was the second warmest year after 2016, and the duration of its heatwaves has increased by about three days in the last 30 years.

Editor’s Note: We need a bigger, better heat action plan

As heatwaves intensify, India must scale up efforts to protect its vulnerable, boost climate resilience, and accelerate the shift to clean energy.

While the idea of a uniform testing mechanism is not in itself flawed and need not necessarily be maleficent or inefficient, it invariably becomes so when the motive behind it is tainted.

Editor’s Note: Dirty skeletons in the NEET closet

In something as crucial as higher education, the idea should be to generate debate on the education scandal, not shut it down.

Editor’s Note: What the 2024 election results mean for India

A fundamental reset in the BJP’s functioning is unlikely. One will see more hypocritical posturing by Modi while his stormtroopers do the opposite.

Editor’s Note: Modi’s diminished mandate a rebuke to emperor’s robes and divine halo

The Lok Sabha election results show that voters have a message for Modi: Govern as elected PM, and not as Supreme Leader.

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