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Frontline on Air — 164 episodes

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Hasdeo Arand and the manufacturing of tribal consent

2

What Kerala’s temple dress code row reveals about faith, caste, and religious reform

3

A broken hiring system has spawned the Rs.300 crore cash-for-jobs scam in Goa

4

UGC’s new university leadership rules could imperil academic independence

5

Will the rise of Waris Punjab De reignite radical politics in Punjab?

6

Manmohan Singh: The heterodox economist

7

Chhattisgarh claims it is winning against Naxals. But the victory comes at the cost of tribal lives and rights

8

Will Trump break world’s faith in US dollar?

9

India’s strategic agility will define its US ties in Trump’s second act

10

Recalibrating the moral compass

11

A new dawn

12

Back to the future

13

India 2024 is Bhopal 1984++

14

Free press makes way for fealty

15

All is not well

16

The blackboard crisis

17

The steady immiseration of labour

18

Agriculture in the age of inequality

19

An unfraternal democracy

20

Tulsi Gabbard’s metamorphosis is the quintessential case study in political shape-shifting

21

Did Azure Power grab tribal farming land in Assam for its solar plant?

22

How US federal charges punctured the myth of Adani’s invincibility

23

Mahayuti’s historic win in Maharashtra hinged on seven strategic pillars

24

The myth of the ‘women vote bank’

25

Tsundoku: When your unread books read you back

26

Normal people, abnormal times: Sally Rooney’s beautiful world of radical romance

27

Should private companies be required to reserve jobs for disadvantaged castes?

28

Mayhem continues in Manipur

29

Cannabis: A cultural gift

30

When China rules Africa

31

Revisiting Bhojpur and its naxal legacy

32

The great inequality myth that rules India

33

Thalapathy Vijay’s grand political entry stumbles on basic ideological contradictions

34

Who really benefits from the Waqf Amendment Bill?

35

A sacred forest dies in Gurugram as Bandhwari landfill’s toxic waste breaches Aravalli sanctuary

36

Vedanta’s oil exploration plan threatens Assam’s last gibbon sanctuary

37

When did Musi beautification become about erasing the poor?

38

Random enforcement of KYC rules is denying the poor their own money and dignity

39

Israel delivers West Asia its Sarajevo moment

40

Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay: The rebel who saw tomorrow

41

The enablers of Israel

42

The grandson rises: How Udhayanidhi Stalin’s meteoric rise challenges DMK’s democratic claims

43

Kashmir’s split verdict: Democracy or division?

44

More than just demographic dividend: Investigating India’s youth bulge

45

The invisible ink of Dalit literature

46

Environmental degradation and urbanisation are pushing a 700-year-old fishing community to abandon their boats and nets

47

DMK at 75: How Karunanidhi’s vision collides with caste realities in modern Dravidian politics

48

The Indus Waters Treaty faces a perfect storm

49

Dark tunnel, elusive light: India-Pakistan diplomacy locked in a strategic stasis

50

The great Mumbai robbery: How prime land is being sold to vested interests on the cheap

51

Decent, homely, and IELTS pass

52

The conspiracy of silence in Tamil and Kannada film industries

53

Telugu cinema: A male stranglehold

54

Lights, camera, litigation: Hema Committee report spotlights Malayalam cinema’s gender battleground

55

Can poetry survive translation?

56

Agnipath: Playing with fire?

57

Bangladesh: Modi government’s diplomacy debacle

58

Death penalty for rape: A counterproductive approach to justice

59

One billion rising, again

60

James Baldwin: The guiding star

61

Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee (1944-2024): Poet-politician who dreamed of an industrial renaissance for West Bengal

62

Wayanad landslides: When nature rewrote the map

63

How Modi’s ‘double engine’ is derailing fiscal federalism

64

Politics over the purse

65

Maharashtra’s multidimensional poverty trap

66

Maximum city, minimum care

67

A saga of drought, debt, and deaths in Maharashtra

68

Maharashtra’s sputtering economic engine

69

Something is rotten in the state of Maharashtra

70

India’s record heatwave vows to return: Can we survive the next?

71

Scorching new normal demands bold, long-term government action

72

Myanmar refugees in Manipur: Caught between war and lies

73

Amaravati: Chandrababu Naidu’s resurrected dream faces reality check

74

The Ambani wedding: A spectacle of excess in an age of inequality

75

India’s bulldozer raj: Over 1,50,000 homes razed, 7,38,000 left homeless in two years

76

The slow, steady march of Hindutva in South India

77

Is NEET designed for exclusion?

78

Is NTA’s MCQ fixation failing India’s higher education?

79

NTA’s dangerous obsession with centralisation

80

In a parched landscape, a dance competition keeps artists’ dreams alive

81

Karnataka: The southern outlier

82

Is it the end of the road for the Akali Dal?

83

The changing face of Dalit politics

84

Reinventing Rahul Gandhi

85

With Modi leading a coalition government, what lies ahead for India’s tense neighbourhood?

86

The Dalit-Bahujan finally roars

87

What Modi 3.0 means for the market and economy

88

Salaam, Indian voters!

89

How the SP-Congress alliance in Uttar Pradesh became a sponge that soaked in people’s discontent against BJP and Modi

90

Clues, culprits, and cultural crossovers: Indian detective fiction is entering the mainstream

91

Protests in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir reflect frustration with disempowerment and interference from Islamabad

92

Eyes wide shut: How the state turns away from Manipur’s realities

93

Arambai Tenggol: How a Meitei ‘sociocultural organisation’ became an armed-to-the-teeth militia

94

Swadeshi Steam: A shipping company propelled by patriotism

95

How the BJP is failing the OBC test

96

Starving and homeless in the UK

97

Remembering Abu Abraham, the cartoonist who bore witness

98

Election Commission: No longer neutral

99

Machine’s whim versus people’s will

100

Kashmir’s famed saffron fields are under siege

101

Inheritance taxes: A key step towards reducing economic inequality

102

Israel’s diversionary attack on Iran has set off a new security crisis in West Asia

103

India’s employment crisis: Jobless growth, threat of automation, and impact of climate change on productivity

104

India is haunted by an unprecedented economic deprivation

105

The Uralungal phenomenon: How a workers’ cooperative from Kerala defied caste, class barriers to become a model for the world

106

The saint, the song, and the social revolution

107

Palestinian Authority’s declining influence portends more trouble for Gaza

108

Viral fever: The curious spectacle of campaign films

109

Movie trailers: The unofficial manifestos of our time

110

How do pandemics begin?

111

Did Periyar call for a genocide of Brahmins?

112

2024 general election is a masterclass in crony capitalism and authoritarianism

113

Electoral bonds: Why it is a giant scam

114

The totalitarian project behind the electoral bonds scheme

115

Farewell Appappan

116

Why a proposed private port in Karnataka’s Honnavara faces stiff resistance from fisherfolk

117

India’s oscillating opposition and the dynamic evolution of protest politics

118

The crisis of the secular opposition

119

2024: A leap year for Indian democracy?

120

Why the tiger-human conflict rages in Bandipur and Nagarahole

121

Kerala’s brain drain: How student migration impacts society

122

Farmers’ protest: It’s a battle against servitude

123

Fali S. Nariman (1929-2024): A life dedicated to the Constitution’s promise

124

Minimum Support Price: A question of how, not why

125

Mahatma Gandhi, in his own words

126

Finding home in the act: How Aagaaz theatre trust empowers young lives through art

127

Beyond borders: Unhoming in Lahore’s magical world

128

Have courts forgotten the Places of Worship Act, 1991?

129

What broke Paytm?

130

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps: A force to reckon with

131

How would Vivekananda view the Ramjanmabhoomi movement and Ram Mandir?

132

Modi government’s crackdown on FCRA cripples civil society organisations

133

Rahul Gandhi, Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra, and the power of walking

134

How Dravidian politics offers a bulwark against the exclusionary politics of Hindutva

135

The amended Biological Diversity Act puts profits over people

136

The grotesque fetish for realism in cinema

137

Is the Indian stock market headed towards a crash?

138

India braces for a potent brew of majoritarianism and authoritarianism in 2024

139

India in the South Asian neighbourhood: Friendship or friction?

140

A country of others

141

Lifting the gauntlet

142

Shooting for the stars with feet of clay

143

Emerging challenge to the Constitution

144

A nation at crossroads: Reflections on what India faced in 2023

145

The KJo phenomenon

146

Uttar Pradesh’s halal branding ban: Strategy to subjugate Muslims?

147

India’s partnership with Israel: A tightrope between justice and self-interest

148

When Tagore’s poem got the Indira touch

149

When will the violence in Manipur end?

150

As world focusses on Gaza, Israel’s onslaught on the West Bank continues

151

Tunnel collapse in Uttarakhand is part of a bigger problem in the Himalayas

152

India’s lawless financial capitalism fosters a culture of scams

153

Whose Ayodhya?

154

Gurez Valley: Kashmir’s pristine land braces itself for a tourism surge

155

Time for a modern law protecting the right to offend through comedy

156

How small-town comedians are taking the internet by storm

157

Maratha quota agitation: A cat among the pigeons

158

Intolerance and outrage leave Indian stand-up comics with less to laugh about

159

Anti-Semitism: How it should and should not be defined

160

The Gaza crisis was a ticking time bomb

161

How Karnataka’s maths reflect the interplay of power, piety, and politics

162

Is this Mandal 2.0?

163

Conflating Hinduism with Vedic religion is a dangerous distortion

164

Assault on NewsClick marks the lowest point for media freedom in India since Emergency