Vaishna Roy-Frontline

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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.

A member of UNAU Tribal Women’s Forum during a protest over the ethnic violence in Manipur, at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi, on May 4, 2024.

Editor’s Note: The deafening silence on Manipur

As PM Modi floods the airwaves with bizarre edicts, the silence around Manipur’s tragedy lays bare the state’s unequal treatment of human suffering.

It is not the act of voting that makes for a democracy but ensuring that the act is protected.

Editor’s Note: The fall of the Election Commission

The watchdog must reclaim its autonomy and backbone to safeguard democracy’s “soft guardrails”.

Editor’s Note: Will India vote for what really matters?

As Prime Minister Modi stokes divisive fears, can the opposition offer a compelling alternative focused on lives, livelihoods and liberties?

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