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Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake is selling hope ahead of the November 14 Parliamentary elections. Not just for the Sinhalese in the south, but for the Tamils in the north. The election of Dissanayake in late September this year as President was a breath of fresh air for a country long dominated by a set of influential political families.
SRI LANKA PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION 2024

Is Sri Lanka witnessing a shift in its ethnic politics?

Amit Baruah
A vendor watches a live telecast as Sri Lanka’s newly elected President Anura Kumara Dissanayake addresses the nation in Colombo on September 25, 2024.
SRI LANKA PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION 2024

Can Anura Dissanayake convert his surprise presidential victory into parliamentary control?

Dissanayake courts Tamil and Muslim regions with development promises, seeking to expand beyond his Sinhala base. November 14 holds the answers.
R K Radhakrishnan
R.K. Radhakrishnan

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NCP chief Sharad Pawar challenges BJP’s welfare-driven campaign, citing ground reports of inflation nullifying cash benefits among women voters and widespread discontent among cotton and soyabean farmers. 
MAHARASHTRA ASSEMBLY ELECTION 2024

I am sure people want change: Sharad Pawar

The veteran politician says while welfare schemes of the Mahayuti government may have had some impact, rising inflation negates all those benefits.
Amey Tirodkar
ASSEMBLY ELECTION

In Maharashtra election, it is caste over crops

Soyabean sells Rs.700 below MSP and crops rot in unseasonal rain, but farmers seem to vote for their identity first. What’s gone wrong?
Amey Tirodkar
ASSEMBLY ELECTION

In Jharkhand, a contest between BJP’s anti-infiltration stance and JMM’s tribal identity politics

While BJP stirs fears of demographic change in Santhal Pargana, JMM banks on Sarna Code demand and welfare promises to protect tribal rights.
Anand Mishra
Dinanath Batra (left) receives a memento from RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat at a programme commemorating the 125th birthday of RSS founder K.B. Hedgewar in Kolkata on April 01, 2015.
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Dinanath Batra: The ‘educationist’ who waged war against knowledge 

The RSS stalwart used lawsuits to pulp books and purge curricula on the grounds of making education ‘Indianness-centric’. 
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ECONOMY

The great inequality myth that rules India

For decades, policymakers and businessmen sold the hoax that making the rich richer would lift all boats. History proves them catastrophically wrong.
Ashoka Mody

Photo Essay

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Human Struggles

Men at sea: The untethered lives of deep-sea fisherfolk

For the fisherfolk of Tamil Nadu and Kerala, earning a living often means sailing on the Arabian Sea and Bay of Bengal for months on end.
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Destroyed buildings at the site of an Israeli air strike in the neighbourhood of Mreijeh in Beirut on October 23, 2024. Israel launched attacks on Lebanon nearly a year after Hezbollah began firing rockets in support of its ally Hamas.
GAZA AND BEYOND — THE LEDE

Israel delivers West Asia its Sarajevo moment

Netanyahu sees a “historic chance to reshape West Asia”, but with no strategy in sight, mass killing appears to be Israel’s principal war aim.
Talmiz Ahmad
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A child injured during an Israeli operation in the Jabalia refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip awaits treatment at the Al-Ahli Arab hospital in Gaza City on October 21, 2024. Since October 7, 2023, some 42,000 Palestinians have been killed, entire villages and towns razed, and hospitals and schools destroyed.
GAZA AND BEYOND

Editor’s Note: The ghosts of Gaza

If the world will not call it by its name even now, it won’t be able to stop another Holocaust from happening.
Vaishna Roy
GAZA AND BEYOND

Iran’s anti-Israel stance has evolved from a purely ideological position into a sophisticated political instrument

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Why are Arab powers so cautious about Israel’s onslaught in West Asia?

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Why Israel’s bombing of Iran might not cause a spike in crude prices

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