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Will MLC elections create new political equations in Maha?

30-04-2026

The big question this week in Maharashtra is whether there is a new political equation emerging in the state between the BJP and the Shiv Sena (UBT) chief, Uddhav Thackeray, over the upcoming Maharashtra Legislative Council (MLC) polls.
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El Nino, poor monsoon threaten Indian Kharif pulse production

30-04-2026

India, the epicentre of the global pulses ecosystem, is currently in transition. From the 2025-26 season, covering Kharif 2025 and Rabi 2026 harvests, the country is now looking forward to the 2026-27 season, and the emerging picture is one of looming climate risk.

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Women’s Reservation Bill was set to fail: it was only a ploy

29-04-2026

So the much-touted Women’s Reservation Bill failed to clear the parliamentary hurdle yet again. It truly became the story of Bikram and Betal in contemporary Indian politics. The Bill (Betal) goes back to hang upside down.

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A lesson in worker protection for India, ASEAN from Japan

29-04-2026

In the harrowing opening of Kim Stanley Robinson’s 2020 science fiction novel, The Ministry for the Future, a humid 38°C heatwave in Uttar Pradesh turns the very air into a mass executioner, transforming a familiar landscape into a graveyard of climate catastrophe.

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Delimitation Bill: A financial burden India was spared

28-04-2026

With Prime Minister Narendra Modi flaunting the halo of a new messiah for women and the Opposition gloating over its victory in the Lok Sabha by defeating the ruling NDA’s Delimitation Bill, nobody appears to be bothered about the financial catastrophe India has just escaped. The opposition parties may well have good reason to resist the ruling party’s bid to redesign the electoral college to its advantage in the guise of women’s reservation among elected representatives.

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Assembly polls 2026: The BJP versus Congress power test

28-04-2026

Barring West Bengal, where the second phase of polling will take place on April 29, assembly elections 2026 are almost done with. Held amid the controversy and concerns over phase 2 of the SIR, which has resulted in the deletion of 7.2 crore voters in 12 states and Union territories, the results of elections in Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, Assam, and West Bengal will have a bearing on political parties and their leaders—both state and national.

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The life and work of Charlotte Brontë from modern lens

27-04-2026

The news is that there is a television adaptation of Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre in the works to be released in time for the 180th year of the novel’s publication. This is the latest in the list of several screen projects based on the book, both faithful versions and modern-day retellings. The 210th birth anniversary of the author of this classic novel was on April 21, and it is interesting to explore why the writer and her best-known book have survived the test of time.

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The bloodbath at Kingston and its historic outcome

27-04-2026

“April is the cruellest month,” wrote TS Elliot in his poem The Wasteland. Fifty years ago, April 1976 to be precise, it certainly proved to be the cruellest month for India’s cricketers under late captain Bishan Singh Bedi.

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A pointless protest on city roads and a woman’s wrath

25-04-2026

In no time, the video of the angry woman screaming at Maharashtra cabinet minister Girish Mahajan went viral this week. She spared no quarter in giving him—and the posse of policemen and policewomen accompanying him—a piece of her mind in the choicest language she could muster,
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The quiet disenfranchisement reshaping Bengal’s election

25-04-2026

Armoured vehicles rumbled through Bengal’s countryside as Central Armed Police Forces patrolled market towns in a carefully choreographed display of electoral vigilance as the first phase of elections in West Bengal was conducted.

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Regulatory failure is locking India’s savings out of economy

24-04-2026

Financial regulators are guided by a simple mandate: protect depositors, policyholders, and investors. The RBI, the SEBI and the IRDAI have steadily tightened rules to safeguard the system. Yet, a paradox has taken root. In trying to protect financial assets and prevent money laundering, the system is increasingly making the assets inaccessible to their rightful owners.

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To read the Bard is, in effect, to read life in its entirety

24-04-2026

Looking for the traces of psychology, spirituality, and philosophy in the works of great writers and poets started in the early 20th century when the legendary Shakespearean critic AC Bradley began to study Shakespeare’s oeuvre from all aspects and facets. The undercurrents of spirituality in the works of the Bard of Avon have always fascinated the critics, readers, and connoisseurs.