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Frontline, the fortnightly English magazine from The Hindu, since 1984. Covering politics, social issues, environment, finance, business, economy, science, technology, art, culture, movies, entertainment, and social media.
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Protest and Politics: Why Emotions Drive Movements
4+ day, 2+ hour ago (130+ words) Published: Sep 09, 2026 18:00 IST - 10 MINS READ “Be realistic, demand the impossible.” “Under the paving stones, the beach.” That is the emotional threshold from which movements are born. And perhaps that is why every government should occasionally ask itself a question more…...
Swatantra Bhardwaj and the BJP’s Politics of Violence
6+ day, 1+ hour ago (231+ words) Published: Sep 07, 2026 18:43 IST - 6 MINS READ Many videos of Bhardwaj appearing on TV shows have appeared. It also means that he was not a loony. He was treated as a normal spokesperson of an ideology. Swatantra Bhardwaj was so confident of…...
CJP and Caste: Can Gen Z Hold Its Coalition?
1+ week, 6+ day ago (653+ words) Published: Aug 31, 2026 12:51 IST - 7 MINS READ They were united by their recognition that India’s creaking education system mars the life chances of all, regardless of who among them was or wasn’t entitled to reservation. A genuinely cross-caste, cross-class movement was spawned,…...
Rahul Gandhi’s "Chhatro Ki Goonj": Can Congress Win Gen Z?
2+ week, 1+ day ago (277+ words) Published: Aug 29, 2026 18:03 IST - 7 MINS READ The Indian National Congress’s (INC) “Chhatron Ki Goonj” (Echo of Students) campaign is the party’s outreach initiative to build ties with the country’s youth and discuss reforms addressing their concerns. Pune was the fourth leg…...
Kanwar Yatra 2026: Violence, Vulgarity, and Hindu Politics
2+ week, 1+ day ago (224+ words) Published: Aug 29, 2026 15:55 IST - 5 MINS READ What explains the obscene acts that have characterised this year’s Kanwar Yatra? How do these children know the meaning of the gestures they can be seen making? One explanation could be early exposure to pornography,…...
Why Companies Still Send CSR Money to PM CARES
2+ week, 4+ day ago (1363+ words) Published: Aug 26, 2026 14:39 IST - 10 MINS READ When the Prime Minister’s Citizen Assistance and Relief in Emergency Situations (PM CARES) Fund was set up in March 2020, India was entering an emergency without precedent. Hospitals needed ventilators and oxygen, migrant workers needed help,…...
At Jadavpur, Campus Violence Signals a Wider Political Shift
2+ week, 4+ day ago (485+ words) Published: Aug 26, 2026 16:08 IST - 12 MINS READ The mob that surrounded him asked two questions—why he was on the campus and whether he was part of any active student faction—before he was hit by a PVC pipe on his arm…...
Delhi Protests and the Making of a Citizens’ Movement
2+ week, 4+ day ago (573+ words) Frontline Magazine We have just witnessed a mini-uprising, the first of its kind in independent India: spontaneous, virtually leaderless, born of horizontal networks rather than political organisation It had no ideological script and no experienced command What it had was…...
CJP, Civil Liberties, and the Price of Political Power
2+ week, 5+ day ago (273+ words) Published: Aug 25, 2026 17:36 IST - 9 MINS READ The Cockroach Janta Party’s (CJP) emergence as a dissenting, iconoclastic voice and its attempt to grow from protest theatre into a grassroots movement through campaigns such as “School Theek Karo” and “Kya Bolti Public” have…...
Apar Gupta on Surveillance, Censorship, and Dissent
2+ week, 6+ day ago (1061+ words) Published: Aug 24, 2026 13:16 IST - 16 MINS READ Members of Gen Z, whose protests captured the imagination of the country, made their voices heard loud and clear on social media, especially Instagram. But their activism was met with a clampdown on online content…...