How VHP, Bajrang Dal protests over Aurangzeb’s tomb spiralled into a night of mayhem in Nagpur
Thirty-eight people were injured in the violence, including 33 police personnel. Curfew clamped in several areas, 5 FIRs lodged, and 50 suspects have been rounded up. Read this report by Purva Chitnis.
The shift toward multiplex cinemas, caused by the influx of Bollywood films, led to the decline of traditional single-screen theatres. And this made films increasingly inaccessible to the average Pakistani. Read this report by Debdutta Chakraborty.
The Congress MP was speaking at a session titled ‘Waging Peace: Looking Back to Look Ahead.’ He also emphasised India’s extensive role in peacekeeping. Read this report by Vandana Menon.
Pakistan doesn’t have enough troops for 2 fronts. It has to choose between LOC, Balochistan
The Pakistani state cannot and will not win unless it abandons the principles of colonial counter-insurgency, which have coated its institutional thinking like toxic sludge. Writes Praveen Swami.
How Modi 3.0 isn’t ready for Nilekani’s ‘four unlocks’ to make India an $8 trillion economy
After backing down on the land acquisition bill in the first term and on farm laws in the second, Modi seems to have lost the appetite for reforms in the third. Writes DK Singh.
Why Kerala is at peace with Hindi. It’s not like Tamil Nadu
Even after the spate of anti-Hindi agitations of the 1960s and 1970s in neighbouring Tamil Nadu, Kerala was open to the prospect of Hindi becoming the ‘national’ language. Writes Anand Kochukudy.