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The houses that were demolished on October 1 at Shankar Nagar along the Musi in Hyderabad. Its residents were relocated to two-bedroom slum resettlement buildings in Pilligudiselu, 2 km away.

When did Musi beautification become about erasing the poor?

Telangana’s ambitious Rs.1.5 lakh crore riverfront project starts with evictions and demolitions in old Hyderabad; detailed plans remain under wraps.

From left, Chinese President Xi Jinping, Russian President Vladimir Putin, and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the BRICS summit plenary session in Kazan, Russia, on October 23.

India’s claim of pursuing ‘strategic autonomy’ in its foreign policy is a facade

In reality, the country is caught in three strategic triangles (US-China, US-Russia, and Russia-China) where it must balance multiple dependencies.

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.

Revisiting Bhojpur and its naxal legacy

The violent struggle between marginalised castes and feudal landlords has ended, but the movement’s impact on dignity and social relations lives on.

College students protest the suspension of the student union election in Dehradun, October 25.

Youth and Politics

Uttarakhand should restore student union elections

The suspension silences the very voices Uttarakhand needs most: young leaders from marginalised backgrounds who understand the region’s challenges.

Arunima Naithani,Devam Thapa

How anti-Hindi protests of the 1960s created India’s most successful regional political movement

The agitation proved singular: it toppled a regime, rewrote India’s language policy, and established Dravidian party rule that continues even today.

Karthick Ram Manoharan

ASSEMBLY ELECTION

BJP returns to Ma-Dha-Va formula as Maratha-OBC polarisation threatens its Assembly prospects

The party is working hard to consolidate non-Maratha Hindu vote in its favour, using the same social engineering formula it employed in the 1980s.

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Poster of Alam Ara (1931), often regarded as India’s first talkie.

Queer love and freedom in 1920s India

Ruth Vanita’s historical examines scans queer desire, cinema, and modernisation through interconnected lives in 1920s Bombay and Delhi.

Dinanath Batra (left) receives a memento from RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat at a programme commemorating the 125th birthday of RSS founder K.B. Hedgewar in Kolkata on April 01, 2015.

Dinanath Batra: The ‘educationist’ who waged war against knowledge

The RSS stalwart used lawsuits to pulp books and purge curricula on the grounds of making education ‘Indianness-centric’.

The former UPA government claimed to be a champion of social justice. In August 2005, barely two months after unleashing the Salwa Judum against Adivasis, it provided a rural employment guarantee under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act.

The great inequality myth that rules India

For decades, policymakers and businessmen sold the hoax that making the rich richer would lift all boats. History proves them catastrophically wrong.

NCP chief Sharad Pawar challenges BJP’s welfare-driven campaign, citing ground reports of inflation nullifying cash benefits among women voters and widespread discontent among cotton and soyabean farmers.

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.

The majority’s 7:2 verdict explicitly criticises the “Marxist reading” of the Constitution, arguing that the framers intended flexibility in economic policy rather than state control of private resources.

Supreme Court’s historic ruling redefines private property rights, favours market economy over state control

Nine-judge bench overturns “socialist-era” interpretation of Article 39(b), limiting state’s control over private property.

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