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Tuesday, March 17, 2026
TopicSmall town India

Topic: Small town India

Netflix’s Jaadugar has a magical cast that scores many points. But it keeps shifting goalposts

Sameer Saxena’s Jaadugar has achieved a near-impossible goal of capturing the essence of small-town India. But there are too many loose ends.

A millennial desi femme fatale and in a saree. That’s Netflix’s ‘Yeh Kaali Kaali Ankhein’

Anchal Singh’s portrayal of Purva, a small-town femme fatale, feels straight out of Manohar Kahaniyan. Her ‘USP’ is her girl-next-door look.

Shauk, tashan, lagaav — What drives India’s small-town stringers to take risks without pay

The death of a stringer in Lakhimpur Kheri violence brought the spotlight on how little small-town journalists in India are paid or acknowledged, despite the risk they take.

On Camera

Free gas to waivers, govt-owned gas firms roll out incentives to push households from LPG to PNG

IGL, MGL & other city gas distributors announce benefits to encourage LPG users to shift to piped natural gas as Centre flags concerns over LPG supply in the wake of Iran conflict.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.