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5 questions, many stations, and the ideas of India from coach to coach

Jobs, communal speeches, women’s safety: BHU students weigh Modi’s tenure, campus life

Atul Chaurasia Manisha Pande

Punjab: Election posters on Ram across Amritsar, 20 complaints, little action by ECI

100 days at Shambhu border: Farmers protest through heatwave, polls, govt’s blind eye

‘Police now part of active psychology’: Author Vyomesh Shukla on politics of Varanasi

Guns and democracy in the Hindi hinterland: 70% NDA and INDIA candidates armed in UP, over 42% in Bihar

Punjab: Why are farmers protesting outside houses of BJP candidates?

Modi report card, Ep 4: Saffron takeover of India’s education system

‘Can’t bury myself 10 ft under’: Prashant Kishor on his political ‘advice’ to an NDA ally

What are Delhi students’ big woes? Saffronisation, Kejriwal’s arrest, jobs or high fees

‘If Congress is over, why is Modi chanting its name?’: Kanhaiya on BJP, INDIA, JNU

Rohtak BJP MP fled his campaign amid grilling by woman farm leader. What were her questions?

‘PM needs third chance but will retire us in 4 years’: Haryana youth angry over Agniveer

‘BJP tortured farmers, women’: AAP’s Sushil Gupta on Haryana contest, Modi, INDIA bloc

Grand rallies at Mumbai: What are Mahayuti and MVA supporters saying?

Prateek Goyal Tanishka Sodhi

Uttarakhand: Vast forest lands burned in a year. Were fire lines drawn to prevent it?

Hridayesh Joshi

What do Mumbai’s women want? Catch the conversations in local trains’ ladies compartment

Another Election Show: What’s the pulse of Bengal’s youth? On Modi, corruption, development

Uttarakhand: Over 1,000 forest fires in 4 months, crisis looms amid poor preparedness

Hridayesh Joshi

‘No one comes as we’re Dalits’: Resentment and perpetual struggle in UP’s poorest seat

Rajan Chaudhary

The Muslim vote and the message from Hyderabad

The News Minute

More hate, more votes? Maharashtra’s voters on how they’re impacted by hate speech

‘Tribals hold their pain within’: Hindutva, rumblings of discontent in Birsa Munda’s land

Hridayesh Joshi

PM Modi’s mangalsutra, bhains, Muslims speech: What do Bihar’s youth think?

What’s the big poll issue in West Bengal? Communalism, corruption or unemployment

Uttarakhand forest fires: Forest staff, vehicles deployed on poll duty in violation of orders

Hridayesh Joshi

Mandate 2024, Ep 3: Jail in Delhi, bail in Andhra. Behind the BJP’s ‘washing machine’ politics

‘They call us Bangladeshi’: Assam’s citizenship crisis and neglected villages

‘Govt can’t do anything about court case’: Jindal on graft charges, his embrace of BJP and Hindutva

Modi govt policies benefit only Adani: KTR

Reporter’s diary: Assam is better off than 2014, but can’t say the same for its citizens

Amid Lingayat ire, BJP invokes Neha murder case, ‘love jihad’ in Karnataka’s Dharwad

‘INDIA coalition set to come to power’: RJD’s Tejashwi Yadav on polls, campaign and ECI

‘Allies don’t have to agree on everything’: Jana Sena’s Pawan Kalyan on differences with TDP, BJP

In Assam, a battered road leads to border Gorkha village with little to survive on

India’s lost decade: How LGBTQIA+ rights fared under BJP, and what manifestos promise

Modi Report Card, Ep 3: The rise in hate speech

Another Election Show: Hurdles to the BJP’s south plan, opposition narratives

‘Top 1 percent will be affected by wealth redistribution’: Economist and prof R Ramakumar

‘Need to reclaim Constitution’: The Karnataka civil society groups safeguarding democracy

5 questions, many stations, and the ideas of India from coach to coach

Jobs, communal speeches, women’s safety: BHU students weigh Modi’s tenure, campus life

Atul Chaurasia Manisha Pande

Punjab: Election posters on Ram across Amritsar, 20 complaints, little action by ECI

100 days at Shambhu border: Farmers protest through heatwave, polls, govt’s blind eye

‘Police now part of active psychology’: Author Vyomesh Shukla on politics of Varanasi

Guns and democracy in the Hindi hinterland: 70% NDA and INDIA candidates armed in UP, over 42% in Bihar

Punjab: Why are farmers protesting outside houses of BJP candidates?

Modi report card, Ep 4: Saffron takeover of India’s education system

‘Can’t bury myself 10 ft under’: Prashant Kishor on his political ‘advice’ to an NDA ally

What are Delhi students’ big woes? Saffronisation, Kejriwal’s arrest, jobs or high fees

‘If Congress is over, why is Modi chanting its name?’: Kanhaiya on BJP, INDIA, JNU

Rohtak BJP MP fled his campaign amid grilling by woman farm leader. What were her questions?

‘PM needs third chance but will retire us in 4 years’: Haryana youth angry over Agniveer

‘BJP tortured farmers, women’: AAP’s Sushil Gupta on Haryana contest, Modi, INDIA bloc

Grand rallies at Mumbai: What are Mahayuti and MVA supporters saying?

Prateek Goyal Tanishka Sodhi

Uttarakhand: Vast forest lands burned in a year. Were fire lines drawn to prevent it?

Hridayesh Joshi

What do Mumbai’s women want? Catch the conversations in local trains’ ladies compartment

Another Election Show: What’s the pulse of Bengal’s youth? On Modi, corruption, development

Uttarakhand: Over 1,000 forest fires in 4 months, crisis looms amid poor preparedness

Hridayesh Joshi

‘No one comes as we’re Dalits’: Resentment and perpetual struggle in UP’s poorest seat

Rajan Chaudhary

The Muslim vote and the message from Hyderabad

The News Minute

More hate, more votes? Maharashtra’s voters on how they’re impacted by hate speech

‘Tribals hold their pain within’: Hindutva, rumblings of discontent in Birsa Munda’s land

Hridayesh Joshi

PM Modi’s mangalsutra, bhains, Muslims speech: What do Bihar’s youth think?

What’s the big poll issue in West Bengal? Communalism, corruption or unemployment

Uttarakhand forest fires: Forest staff, vehicles deployed on poll duty in violation of orders

Hridayesh Joshi

Mandate 2024, Ep 3: Jail in Delhi, bail in Andhra. Behind the BJP’s ‘washing machine’ politics

‘They call us Bangladeshi’: Assam’s citizenship crisis and neglected villages

‘Govt can’t do anything about court case’: Jindal on graft charges, his embrace of BJP and Hindutva

Modi govt policies benefit only Adani: KTR

Reporter’s diary: Assam is better off than 2014, but can’t say the same for its citizens

Amid Lingayat ire, BJP invokes Neha murder case, ‘love jihad’ in Karnataka’s Dharwad

‘INDIA coalition set to come to power’: RJD’s Tejashwi Yadav on polls, campaign and ECI

‘Allies don’t have to agree on everything’: Jana Sena’s Pawan Kalyan on differences with TDP, BJP

In Assam, a battered road leads to border Gorkha village with little to survive on

India’s lost decade: How LGBTQIA+ rights fared under BJP, and what manifestos promise

Modi Report Card, Ep 3: The rise in hate speech

Another Election Show: Hurdles to the BJP’s south plan, opposition narratives

‘Top 1 percent will be affected by wealth redistribution’: Economist and prof R Ramakumar

‘Need to reclaim Constitution’: The Karnataka civil society groups safeguarding democracy