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During a protest organised by the Cockroach Janta Party demanding Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan's resignation, at Savitribai Phule Pune University, in Pune, Maharashtra, on June 11, 2026.

Will the BJP weather the Gen Z revolt?

Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Myanmar President Min Aung Hlaing before a meeting in New Delhi on June 1, 2026.

India’s Myanmar gamble

India is moving beyond its faith in Myanmar’s military rulers, but its search for influence and rare earths is drawing it into a far more complex and uncertain landscape.

Nirupama Subramanian

A Rajya Sabha nomination rejection with wider consequences

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Buddhist monks during a “walk for peace”, in Surabaya, Indonesia, on May 15.

The Ethical Life

Undone by unthinking

In a world where strong forces systematically devalue our inner lives, what is sorely needed is the recovery of the conditions under which self-reflection and thinking become possible.

Rajeev Bhargava

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu with Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian at “Bharat AI Shakti”, an event hosted by Google, in New Delhi on October 14, 2025.

Artificial Intelligence

Is Andhra Pradesh’s data centre push a recipe for disaster?

With nine-day environmental clearances, phantom job figures, and staggering incentives, Andhra Pradesh’s AI infrastructure push exposes the country’s regulatory vacuum for data centres.

Governor Lakshman Prasad Acharya addresses the first session of Assam’s 16th Legislative Assembly on May 22, 2026. Barely a week after, the House passed the Uniform Civil Code Bill.

Assam’s new uniform civil code opens a question of intent

Assam’s UCC places Muslim personal law under scrutiny while shielding tribal customary law from the same assessment, raising questions about whether the project is really about uniformity or about “reforming” specific communities.

Madhav Singh Sodhi

Performers on the pitch during the opening ceremony before the start of the FIFA World Cup Group A match between Mexico and South Africa in Mexico City on June 11, 2026.

A World Cup with conditions attached

The biggest World Cup in history kicked off in Mexico City even as travel bans and visa refusals kept fans, officials and a referee from several qualifying nations away from the tournament they had earned a place in.

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Next in Context

India after the rules-based order

Cockroach Janta Party

Anger is not an ideology

MIND OF THE LIFE

FIFA’s own goal in America

Former DMK partners search for space and relevance

The Maratha effect: Social justice under political pressure

Spotlight

A Congress rally demanding immediate implementation of the Women’s Reservation Bill without delimitation, in Visakhapatnam on May 4.

Failing the federation

Ajay K. Singh,Amisha Thakur,Khalid Ansari,Nalin Verma

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay at Tamil Nadu Bhavan in New Delhi on May 27, 2026: a visit that included a call on Prime Minister Narendra Modi but not Congress leaders.

Act One: Promises and plot twists

R.K. Radhakrishnan

Like many great filmmakers, Bharathiraja was fascinated by violence and romance. He reached his artistic peak when portraying these emotions.

Bharathiraja (1942-2026): The complete artist

He brought real villages to the screen and ordinary people to the centre of Tamil cinema. Restless, emotional and endlessly curious, Bharathiraja spent a lifetime chasing stories and reshaping the medium.

Citizens shout slogans and hold placards during a peace vigil organised to protest violence against Muslims in the country, in New Delhi on April 16, 2022. The rapid growth of the “cockroach movement” following a Supreme Court remark raises broader questions about dissent, political participation, and public perceptions of identity in India.

What if the cockroach movement had a Muslim face?

Argentine football legend Diego Maradona controls a ball during a photocall for Serbian director Emir Kusturica’s documentary Maradona by Kusturica at the 61st Cannes Film Festival, in France, on May 20, 2008.

God, gunpowder, and the gospel of Maradona

Vidyarthy Chatterjee

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