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A "Historic" Heist, a Hollowed Republic
2+ hour, 17+ min ago (17+ words) Following the BJP's election victory in West Bengal, painful structural readjustments lie ahead for the polity....
Watch | Why These Elections Were Beyond Just Bias By EC: Professor Gilles Verniers
1+ hour, 53+ min ago (103+ words) The Wire. in Professor Gilles Verniers, political scientist at Sciences Po, Paris, joined The Wire's discussion on May 4, the result day for five assembly elections in India He spoke to The Wire's Jahnavi Sen and Soumashree Sarkar on the dubious…...
Netanyahu Has Pledged to "Finish the Job" Against Hezbollah. It"s a Promise He Can"t Deliver On
2+ hour, 45+ min ago (883+ words) Israel and Lebanon agreed to a ceasefire three weeks ago. The violence, however, hasn't stopped. In recent days, Israeli airstrikes have killed at least 40 people and the military has issued evacuation orders for residents of ten villages and towns in…...
Ratul Puri on India's Renewable Shift: From Rapid Expansion to Execution-Led Growth
2+ hour, 32+ min ago (610+ words) New Delhi [India], May 7: India's renewable energy sector is transitioning into a more execution-driven phase, moving beyond headline capacity addition numbers with sharper focus on system-level optimisation, reliability and integrated power delivery, according to Hindustan Power Chairman Ratul Puri. This…...
India's Custodial Death and Torture Crisis and a Global Call for Accountability
21+ hour, 35+ min ago (604+ words) This global attention reflects a visceral reality. Earlier this year, in a span of roughly two weeks, Tamil Nadu documented three cases of custodial torture leading to death: Selvakumar in Ariyalur, Punithan in Tambaram and Aakash in Madurai. Their deaths…...
Bangladesh Was the BJPs Most Potent Electoral Weapon in West Bengal
20+ hour, 51+ min ago (320+ words) The Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) seismic breakthrough in West Bengal represented the cold, calculated engineering of a new political psychology that involved recasting Bangladesh " historically the cultural sibling of the Bengali imagination " as a visceral symbol of demographic dread and…...
Indias Custodial Death and Torture Crisis and a Global Call for Accountability
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (604+ words) This global attention reflects a visceral reality. Earlier this year, in a span of roughly two weeks, Tamil Nadu documented three cases of custodial torture leading to death: Selvakumar in Ariyalur, Punithan in Tambaram and Aakash in Madurai. Their deaths…...
Bengal was the First Breeding Ground of Hindu Nationalism and the Idea of Hindutva Originated There
1+ day, 7+ hour ago (463+ words) The Wire. in...
What the Gavai-Dhirendra Shastri Meeting Reveals About Marginalised Identities Becoming Part of Dominant Norms
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (320+ words) Given the claims made by Gavai " a public figure " about the legacy of Dr Ambedkar and identity of being Buddhist, such an engagement with these spaces holds symbolic meaning. The presence of CJI Gavai in such a scenario cannot simply…...
Sonipat Human Development Report 2026 Presented in Delhi, Sparks Dialogue on Local Development Challenges
1+ day, 5+ hour ago (224+ words) The Wire. in New Delhi, 6 May, 2026: The Sonipat Human Development Report (HDR) 2026, earlier released by the Hon'ble Chief Minister of Haryana in January 2026, was formally presented in New Delhi recently The event was organised by the Jindal Institute of Haryana…...