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Farmers’ protest gets a second wind with people in Haryana, Punjab and western Uttar Pradesh drawing up new strategies

Venkitesh Ramakrishnan

Even as the Narendra Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government at the Centre persists with its attempts to grind down the agitation of the farm

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Farmers reject abeyance ploy

Government running out of options in face of resolute farmers' agitation

Venkitesh Ramakrishnan

Agitating farmers reject the government’s ‘abeyance ploy’, leaving the BJP with no room to save its face, while the opposition gets ready to grill the

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Covid vaccine and farmers' agitation

Diversion vs determination: Government plan to overshadow farmers' protest with COVID-19 vaccine dry run fails

Venkitesh Ramakrishnan

The Modi regime’s latest attempt to overshadow the growing farmers’ agitation with a grandiose vaccine dry run hits a roadblock, with many experts rai

Case against Congress MP Ravneet Singh Bittu for his comments on television on the farmers' protests

Venkitesh Ramakrishnan

The Sangh Parivar’s and the Narendra Modi-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government’s efforts to brand the farmers’ siege on the borders of De

Farmers' Agitation

Farmers in Punjab stand in for those involved in the Delhi agitation by fulfilling their farming roles

Venkitesh Ramakrishnan

Giving a boost to the agitation, the practice of friends and neighbours standing in for the agitating farmers by collectively carrying out farming act

COVID-19 patients are being treated with drugs such as itolizumab even though there is insufficient evidence on their efficacy against the disease

Divya Trivedi Siddhartha Das Venkitesh Ramakrishnan

Some pharma companies appear to be using the ongoing pandemic as an excuse to bypass some of the necessary steps to get government approvals so that t

The Delhi siege

Political impact of the farmer unions’ Delhi siege and Modi government’s deceitful games

Venkitesh Ramakrishnan

Farmers emerge as a major political entity as their Delhi siege mounts a concrete challenge to the BJP and the Narendra Modi government even as the Pr

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Punjab farmers' agitation

Despite the Central government's strong-arm tactics, farmers stand their ground against new farm laws

Ziya Us Salam Venkitesh Ramakrishnan

Despite economic distress, tragic deaths of fellow fighters and the Central government’s strong-arm tactics such as starving Punjab of train services

Bihar Assembly election

Lessons from the Bihar Assembly election

Venkitesh Ramakrishnan

The resonance the Mahagathbandhan’s campaign has generated will have a bigger impact on the national polity than the BJP-led National Democratic Allia

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Farmers' protest

A different Dasara: Farmers use unconventional methods to protest against the farm laws

Ziya Us Salam Venkitesh Ramakrishnan

Farmers in Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh use unconventional methods to protest against the Centre’s farm laws.

Interview: Tejashwi Yadav

‘Our campaign is touching people’s hearts and minds’: Tejashwi Yadav

Venkitesh Ramakrishnan

Interview with Tejashwi Yadav, RJD leader.

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Bihar Assembly elections

Nitish Kumar: Alone in a battle

Venkitesh Ramakrishnan Purnima S. Tripathi

Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and his JD(U) seem set to emerge as the biggest losers in the Bihar election as he fights anti-incumbency and a resurgent

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Editor’s Note

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A rare moment when one can pause, look back, and take stock.

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Captured in time

As independent India turns 75, some of the defining images of those seven decades.