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Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu with Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian at “Bharat AI Shakti”, an event hosted by Google, in New Delhi on October 14, 2025.

Artificial Intelligence

Is Andhra Pradesh’s data centre push a recipe for disaster?

Cockroach Janta Party founder Abhijeet Dipke during a protest demanding the resignation of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi, on June 6, 2026.

Cockroach Janta Party

Anger is not an ideology

If the CJP wants to take on entrenched political parties like the BJP, it must establish itself as an ideological project that attracts a stable social constituency while addressing socio-political issues.

MIND OF THE LIFE

FIFA’s own goal in America

Former DMK partners search for space and relevance

R.K. Radhakrishnan

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CPI Tamil Nadu general secretary M. Veerapandian and CPI(M) State general secretary P. Shanmugam during a joint press conference to announce their support to the TVK following the election results, in Chennai, on May 8, 2026.

Former DMK partners search for space and relevance

Tamil Nadu’s smaller parties once found shelter in the DMK alliance. After the election debacle, they are searching for leverage, visibility and survival, with the TVK government emerging as the centre of a new political landscape.

R.K. Radhakrishnan

Like many great filmmakers, Bharathiraja was fascinated by violence and romance. He reached his artistic peak when portraying these emotions.

Bharathiraja (1942-2026): The complete artist

He brought real villages to the screen and ordinary people to the centre of Tamil cinema. Restless, emotional and endlessly curious, Bharathiraja spent a lifetime chasing stories and reshaping the medium.

Marathas gather outside Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus in August 2025; Manoj Jarange, who fasted for a day on May 30, 2026, to demand reservation for Marathas, was on a fast then too.

The Maratha effect: Social justice under political pressure

Maharashtra is extending OBC-style welfare benefits to the influential Maratha community without the constitutional criterion of social backwardness, showing how organised caste pressure is shaping social justice policy and public spending.

Rushikesh Arun Patil

Argentine football legend Diego Maradona controls a ball during a photocall for Serbian director Emir Kusturica’s documentary Maradona by Kusturica at the 61st Cannes Film Festival, in France, on May 20, 2008.

Football World Cup

God, gunpowder, and the gospel of Maradona

As another FIFA World Cup kicks off, revisiting Emir Kusturica’s documentary reveals how Maradona became a football genius, political rebel, and secular saint still revered far beyond the pitch.

Vidyarthy Chatterjee

Next in Context

Failing the federation

Act One: Promises and plot twists

What if the cockroach movement had a Muslim face?

Rethinking representation

ASSEMBLY ELECTION 2026

Was healthcare the DMK’s weak point?

Spotlight

Mamata Banerjee arrives for an INDIA bloc meeting in New Delhi on June 8, 2026.

Can Didi stop the Trinamool exodus?

Suhrid Sankar Chattopadhyay

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Itanagar (Dioecesis Itanagarensis) in India was created on December 7, 2005, by splitting it from the Diocese of Tezpur.

Old fears return with APFRA

Patricia Mukhim

Former Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar, former Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann, former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin, Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy, and others during the first Joint Action Committee meeting of States over the proposed delimitation of Parliamentary seats, in Chennai on March 22, 2025.

Inside a constitutional ‘black box’

Insulating delimitation from political interference does not mean excluding it entirely from legislative and judicial scrutiny.

K. Ashok Vardhan Shetty

Jawaharlal Nehru and Narendra Modi. Two original images photoshopped for representational purposes.

A record, a republic, and many questions

Manoj Kumar Jha

Tribal rights activists in Goa staged a protest in May this year urging the government to speedily implement the law reserving seats for STs in the State Assembly.

Reserved Assembly seats for Goa’s STs could be a political game changer

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