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The spectre of ethnic conflict returned to haunt Manipur on May 3 when a solidarity march by the All Tribal Students’ Union of Manipur (ATSUM) turned violent. Reports of killings, rioting and destruction of property soon emerged from several district

Of the 60 assembly constituencies in Manipur, 40 seats are in the valley areas which comprise six districts—Imphal East, Imphal West, Thoubal, Bishnupur, Kakching and Kangkopi. The remaining 20 seats are spread over the other 10 districts. The valley

Sharad Pawar is a political cat with far more than nine lives. His withdrawal of resignation on May 5 as the president of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) may be seen by many as only a temporary truce within the party, but with that denouement, P

For years now, Trinamool Congress general secretary Abhishek Banerjee, West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s nephew and chosen heir as party chief, has been trying to fill out his role as future supremo by spearheading a kind of ethical cleans

What the Cooum is to Chennai or the Sabarmati to Ahmedabad, the Musi is to Telangana capital Hyderabad. Rising in Vikarabad, west of the city, the river travels for about 250 kilometres before it joins the Krishna at Vadapally near Suryapet in Telang

In a dramatic, 13-hour operation on April 29, a rogue elephant that had terrorised the Chinnakanal area of Kerala’s Idukki district for close to 20 years was finally captured and transported to the Periyar Tiger Reserve. A 35-year-old wild male tuske

It was a political earthquake of sorts when, in 2020, Jyotiraditya Scindia led a coup that felled the Kamal Nath government and enabled the formation of the BJP government in Madhya Pradesh. The true gauge of its intensity is that its aftershocks are

Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s ambitious caste survey has hit a serious legal roadblock. On May 4, the Patna High Court put an interim stay on the state government’s ongoing caste-wise enumeration of its population just 10 days before the May 15 deadl

The BJP, it seems, is scouting for younger faces to include in Uttarakhand chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami’s cabinet. The 47-year-old CM has already done several rounds of Delhi to get the high command’s clearance for four vacancies and a few othe

Once a party stalwart, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) general secretary Satish Mishra’s public appearances have become rare these days. He was also M.I.A. in the campaign for the recent local body polls in Uttar Pradesh. While party insiders blame put it

Twenty-five years after India and Pakistan conducted a series of nuclear tests in May 1998 and declared themselves as nuclear weapon states, it’s a good time for stocktaking. There is no better expert than Ashley J. Tellis, senior fellow at the Carne

The Chief Minister’s Research Fellowship provides a monthly stipend of Rs. 25,000 for three years to 120 eligible scholars from various streams. In order to promote equitable access to engineering education, 16,647 Government school students have bee

December 29, 2021. That’s the day Nagpur-based psychiatrist Surabhi Mitra, 31, and operations executive Paromita Mukherjee, 27, decided to embark on a life-changing journey. Dressed in matching leather jackets, and riding a bike, they set out for Hot

Aditi and Susan have built a life for themselves that’s enriched by love, companionship, equality, an affectionate dog and an adopted two-and-a-half-year-old son. Yet, there are so many things that they can’t do together, including being legal parent

For Sridhar and Saagar, joining the India Network for Sexual Minorities (INFOSEM) in the petition filed at the Supreme Court on April 13 was a step that came from the harsh realisation that after nearly three decades of living together, they still ca

Vaibhav and Parag got legally married in the US in 2017. While Vaibhav is an Indian citizen, Parag is an Overseas Citizen of India (OCI). Yet, the couple couldn’t get their marriage registered in India. “An officer at the Indian consulate in New York

When Surabhi and Paromita exchanged rings during their engagement in Nagpur in December 2021, the only family member in attendance was Surabhi’s father. His support came after much concern about the impact it would have on his daughter’s career. “My

The Centre, in its affidavit, told the Supreme Court that same-sex marriage was an “urban elitist concept” far removed from the social ethos of the country and did not represent the view of the “entire population” of the nation. But the CJI said same

During the hearing, Chief Justice of India D.Y. Chandrachud observed that the core elements of marriage are protected by constitutional values. “One, marriage itself postulates two individuals to cohabit. Two, marriage accompanies with it the existen

Supriyo and Abhay got married in 2021 in Hyderabad, the city where they first met. The decision to tie the knot and seek legal recognition for their marriage was triggered by a series of incidents that made them feel discriminated against. The duo ha

Rituparna and Amrita have been seeing each other since 2016. The couple found acceptance from almost everyone in their families, except Rituparna’s brother. “It’s my super-educated brother and his wife, a former law professor, who have been a source

I see no reason why the state should discriminate against homosexual couples,” says Kotia. The couple moved the SC in January this year, seeking the right to get married to a person of their choice. As Utkarsh says, they are not asking for a new law,

Sprinter Dutee Chand, a two-time Olympian and 100m national record holder, made headlines in 2019 when she opened up about her sexuality and became the first openly lesbian athlete in the country. That was two years after she fell in love with Monali

The May 2 decision of Go First, India’s third-largest carrier, to suspend flights for two days—later extended till May 19—caught fliers, the aviation regulator and the Centre totally off guard. So did its move to file for voluntary insolvency proceed

FOR TWO DECADES NOW, the million or so residents of Dharavi, one of the largest slum clusters in the world, have dreamt of a life of greater dignity—of owning a house, not having to wait in long queues for water and using public toilets, escaping the

The women and the elderly have to bear the brunt when it comes to issues such as sanitation, water and electricity. Public toilets and community water taps are our life. The toilets are dirty and many shut down after 11.30 pm. And if the toilets on t

Our family of 12 stays in an 8x8 ft tenement. I was born in Dharavi and it is our dream that the children have good houses to live in. Dharavi has produced doctors, engineers and professionals despite every adversity. We can do even better if we get

In February, when the Enforcement Directorate (ED) arrested Virendra Ram, chief engineer in the Jharkhand rural development department, for alleged money-laundering, he seemed just one of the routine catches. After all, a chief engineer does not figu

Ganesh Haloi: A Rhythm Surfaces in the Mind is, like its title, about the melody evoked by the artist’s earth-toned abstract oeuvre. This recently published monograph brought out by Mapin Publishing and Akar Prakar, and edited by Natasha Ginwala and

The Panchatantra is one of those story collections that is everywhere and all the time, not simply in the subcontinent, where it is believed to have originated, but in animal stories across Europe and West Asia. As the stories settle into different l

Art is art, right? But two new art galleries in Mumbai showcase the sheer range of artistic perspective, with two very different approaches to art. One, ensconced in the glamorous Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre at the Bandra-Kurla Complex, is a p

By director Kanu Behl’s own admission, the protagonist in his second feature, Agra, is up to no good. Guru (newcomer Mohit Agarwal), a sexually repressed twentysomething man, does “dastardly things” and has a “difficult gaze”, but Behl and his co-wri

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Considered North America’s longest-running and most prestigious Indian film festival, the 23rd edition of the New York Indian Film Festival (NYIFF) is being held from May 11-14, 2023, and will include over 30 narratives, documentaries and shorts, wit

Q. What was going through your head when you realised you might be in an Anurag Kashyap movie? When Anurag sir called me for Kennedy, he said he wanted me to come in for the film, but he actually wanted me to audition for the role. I was extremely ne

A Lutyens’ Delhi address, retired bureaucrats and army officers on the advisory board of his foundation, social media profiles crammed with pictures with the who’s who, going right up to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Meet Sanjay Rai ‘Sherpuria’, the