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Listen to a selection of Frontline's best stories each fortnight.

Episode Date
Hasdeo Arand and the manufacturing of tribal consent
Feb 19, 2025
What Kerala’s temple dress code row reveals about faith, caste, and religious reform
Feb 18, 2025
A broken hiring system has spawned the Rs.300 crore cash-for-jobs scam in Goa
Feb 17, 2025
UGC’s new university leadership rules could imperil academic independence
Feb 16, 2025
Will the rise of Waris Punjab De reignite radical politics in Punjab?
Feb 15, 2025
Manmohan Singh: The heterodox economist
Feb 03, 2025
Chhattisgarh claims it is winning against Naxals. But the victory comes at the cost of tribal lives and rights
Feb 02, 2025
Will Trump break world’s faith in US dollar?
Feb 01, 2025
India’s strategic agility will define its US ties in Trump’s second act
Jan 31, 2025
Recalibrating the moral compass
Jan 26, 2025
A new dawn
Jan 25, 2025
Back to the future
Jan 24, 2025
India 2024 is Bhopal 1984++
Jan 23, 2025
Free press makes way for fealty
Jan 22, 2025
All is not well
Jan 21, 2025
The blackboard crisis
Jan 19, 2025
The steady immiseration of labour
Jan 19, 2025
Agriculture in the age of inequality
Jan 18, 2025
An unfraternal democracy
Jan 17, 2025
Tulsi Gabbard’s metamorphosis is the quintessential case study in political shape-shifting
Jan 05, 2025
Did Azure Power grab tribal farming land in Assam for its solar plant?
Jan 04, 2025
How US federal charges punctured the myth of Adani’s invincibility
Jan 03, 2025
Mahayuti’s historic win in Maharashtra hinged on seven strategic pillars
Jan 02, 2025
The myth of the ‘women vote bank’
Jan 01, 2025
Tsundoku: When your unread books read you back
Dec 28, 2024
Normal people, abnormal times: Sally Rooney’s beautiful world of radical romance
Dec 27, 2024
Should private companies be required to reserve jobs for disadvantaged castes?
Dec 26, 2024
Mayhem continues in Manipur
Dec 25, 2024
Cannabis: A cultural gift
Dec 24, 2024
When China rules Africa
Dec 23, 2024
Revisiting Bhojpur and its naxal legacy
Dec 22, 2024
The great inequality myth that rules India
Dec 21, 2024
Thalapathy Vijay’s grand political entry stumbles on basic ideological contradictions
Dec 20, 2024
Who really benefits from the Waqf Amendment Bill?
Dec 19, 2024
A sacred forest dies in Gurugram as Bandhwari landfill’s toxic waste breaches Aravalli sanctuary
Nov 27, 2024
Vedanta’s oil exploration plan threatens Assam’s last gibbon sanctuary
Nov 26, 2024
When did Musi beautification become about erasing the poor?
Nov 25, 2024
Random enforcement of KYC rules is denying the poor their own money and dignity
Nov 24, 2024
Israel delivers West Asia its Sarajevo moment
Nov 23, 2024
Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay: The rebel who saw tomorrow
Nov 22, 2024
The enablers of Israel
Nov 21, 2024
The grandson rises: How Udhayanidhi Stalin’s meteoric rise challenges DMK’s democratic claims
Nov 20, 2024
Kashmir’s split verdict: Democracy or division?
Nov 19, 2024
More than just demographic dividend: Investigating India’s youth bulge
Nov 18, 2024
The invisible ink of Dalit literature
Nov 17, 2024
Environmental degradation and urbanisation are pushing a 700-year-old fishing community to abandon their boats and nets
Nov 16, 2024
DMK at 75: How Karunanidhi’s vision collides with caste realities in modern Dravidian politics
Nov 15, 2024
The Indus Waters Treaty faces a perfect storm
Nov 14, 2024
Dark tunnel, elusive light: India-Pakistan diplomacy locked in a strategic stasis
Nov 13, 2024
The great Mumbai robbery: How prime land is being sold to vested interests on the cheap
Oct 13, 2024
Decent, homely, and IELTS pass
Oct 12, 2024
The conspiracy of silence in Tamil and Kannada film industries
Oct 11, 2024
Telugu cinema: A male stranglehold
Oct 10, 2024
Lights, camera, litigation: Hema Committee report spotlights Malayalam cinema’s gender battleground
Oct 09, 2024
Can poetry survive translation?
Oct 08, 2024
Agnipath: Playing with fire?
Oct 07, 2024
Bangladesh: Modi government’s diplomacy debacle
Oct 06, 2024
Death penalty for rape: A counterproductive approach to justice
Oct 05, 2024
One billion rising, again
Oct 04, 2024
James Baldwin: The guiding star
Sep 22, 2024
Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee (1944-2024): Poet-politician who dreamed of an industrial renaissance for West Bengal
Sep 21, 2024
Wayanad landslides: When nature rewrote the map
Sep 20, 2024
How Modi’s ‘double engine’ is derailing fiscal federalism
Sep 19, 2024
Politics over the purse
Sep 18, 2024
Maharashtra’s multidimensional poverty trap
Sep 04, 2024
Maximum city, minimum care
Sep 03, 2024
A saga of drought, debt, and deaths in Maharashtra
Sep 02, 2024
Maharashtra’s sputtering economic engine
Sep 01, 2024
Something is rotten in the state of Maharashtra
Aug 31, 2024
India’s record heatwave vows to return: Can we survive the next?
Aug 21, 2024
Scorching new normal demands bold, long-term government action
Aug 20, 2024
Myanmar refugees in Manipur: Caught between war and lies
Aug 19, 2024
Amaravati: Chandrababu Naidu’s resurrected dream faces reality check
Aug 18, 2024
The Ambani wedding: A spectacle of excess in an age of inequality
Aug 17, 2024
India’s bulldozer raj: Over 1,50,000 homes razed, 7,38,000 left homeless in two years
Jul 31, 2024
The slow, steady march of Hindutva in South India
Jul 30, 2024
Is NEET designed for exclusion?
Jul 29, 2024
Is NTA’s MCQ fixation failing India’s higher education?
Jul 28, 2024
NTA’s dangerous obsession with centralisation
Jul 27, 2024
In a parched landscape, a dance competition keeps artists’ dreams alive
Jul 22, 2024
Karnataka: The southern outlier
Jul 21, 2024
Is it the end of the road for the Akali Dal?
Jul 20, 2024
The changing face of Dalit politics
Jul 19, 2024
Reinventing Rahul Gandhi
Jul 18, 2024
With Modi leading a coalition government, what lies ahead for India’s tense neighbourhood?
Jul 09, 2024
The Dalit-Bahujan finally roars
Jul 08, 2024
What Modi 3.0 means for the market and economy
Jul 07, 2024
Salaam, Indian voters!
Jul 06, 2024
How the SP-Congress alliance in Uttar Pradesh became a sponge that soaked in people’s discontent against BJP and Modi
Jul 05, 2024
Clues, culprits, and cultural crossovers: Indian detective fiction is entering the mainstream
Jun 18, 2024
Protests in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir reflect frustration with disempowerment and interference from Islamabad
Jun 17, 2024
Eyes wide shut: How the state turns away from Manipur’s realities
Jun 16, 2024
Arambai Tenggol: How a Meitei ‘sociocultural organisation’ became an armed-to-the-teeth militia
Jun 15, 2024
Swadeshi Steam: A shipping company propelled by patriotism
Jun 14, 2024
How the BJP is failing the OBC test
Jun 05, 2024
Starving and homeless in the UK
Jun 04, 2024
Remembering Abu Abraham, the cartoonist who bore witness
Jun 03, 2024
Election Commission: No longer neutral
Jun 02, 2024
Machine’s whim versus people’s will
Jun 01, 2024
Kashmir’s famed saffron fields are under siege
May 19, 2024
Inheritance taxes: A key step towards reducing economic inequality
May 18, 2024
Israel’s diversionary attack on Iran has set off a new security crisis in West Asia
May 17, 2024
India’s employment crisis: Jobless growth, threat of automation, and impact of climate change on productivity
May 16, 2024
India is haunted by an unprecedented economic deprivation
May 15, 2024
The Uralungal phenomenon: How a workers’ cooperative from Kerala defied caste, class barriers to become a model for the world
May 07, 2024
The saint, the song, and the social revolution
May 06, 2024
Palestinian Authority’s declining influence portends more trouble for Gaza
May 05, 2024
Viral fever: The curious spectacle of campaign films
May 04, 2024
Movie trailers: The unofficial manifestos of our time
May 03, 2024
How do pandemics begin?
Apr 26, 2024
Did Periyar call for a genocide of Brahmins?
Apr 25, 2024
2024 general election is a masterclass in crony capitalism and authoritarianism
Apr 24, 2024
Electoral bonds: Why it is a giant scam
Apr 23, 2024
The totalitarian project behind the electoral bonds scheme
Apr 22, 2024
Farewell Appappan
Apr 19, 2024
Why a proposed private port in Karnataka’s Honnavara faces stiff resistance from fisherfolk
Apr 18, 2024
India’s oscillating opposition and the dynamic evolution of protest politics
Apr 17, 2024
The crisis of the secular opposition
Apr 16, 2024
2024: A leap year for Indian democracy?
Apr 15, 2024
Why the tiger-human conflict rages in Bandipur and Nagarahole
Mar 26, 2024
Kerala’s brain drain: How student migration impacts society
Mar 25, 2024
Farmers’ protest: It’s a battle against servitude
Mar 24, 2024
Fali S. Nariman (1929-2024): A life dedicated to the Constitution’s promise
Mar 23, 2024
Minimum Support Price: A question of how, not why
Mar 21, 2024
Mahatma Gandhi, in his own words
Mar 08, 2024
Finding home in the act: How Aagaaz theatre trust empowers young lives through art
Mar 07, 2024
Beyond borders: Unhoming in Lahore’s magical world
Mar 06, 2024
Have courts forgotten the Places of Worship Act, 1991?
Mar 05, 2024
What broke Paytm?
Mar 04, 2024
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps: A force to reckon with
Mar 01, 2024
How would Vivekananda view the Ramjanmabhoomi movement and Ram Mandir?
Feb 29, 2024
Modi government’s crackdown on FCRA cripples civil society organisations
Feb 28, 2024
Rahul Gandhi, Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra, and the power of walking
Feb 27, 2024
How Dravidian politics offers a bulwark against the exclusionary politics of Hindutva
Feb 26, 2024
The amended Biological Diversity Act puts profits over people
Feb 08, 2024
The grotesque fetish for realism in cinema
Feb 07, 2024
Is the Indian stock market headed towards a crash?
Feb 06, 2024
India braces for a potent brew of majoritarianism and authoritarianism in 2024
Feb 04, 2024
India in the South Asian neighbourhood: Friendship or friction?
Feb 04, 2024
A country of others
Jan 13, 2024
Lifting the gauntlet
Jan 12, 2024
Shooting for the stars with feet of clay
Jan 11, 2024
Emerging challenge to the Constitution
Jan 10, 2024
A nation at crossroads: Reflections on what India faced in 2023
Jan 09, 2024
The KJo phenomenon
Jan 01, 2024
Uttar Pradesh’s halal branding ban: Strategy to subjugate Muslims?
Dec 31, 2023
India’s partnership with Israel: A tightrope between justice and self-interest
Dec 30, 2023
When Tagore’s poem got the Indira touch
Dec 29, 2023
When will the violence in Manipur end?
Dec 28, 2023
As world focusses on Gaza, Israel’s onslaught on the West Bank continues
Dec 14, 2023
Tunnel collapse in Uttarakhand is part of a bigger problem in the Himalayas
Dec 13, 2023
India’s lawless financial capitalism fosters a culture of scams
Dec 12, 2023
Whose Ayodhya?
Dec 11, 2023
Gurez Valley: Kashmir’s pristine land braces itself for a tourism surge
Dec 11, 2023
Time for a modern law protecting the right to offend through comedy
Nov 24, 2023
How small-town comedians are taking the internet by storm
Nov 24, 2023
Maratha quota agitation: A cat among the pigeons
Nov 24, 2023
Intolerance and outrage leave Indian stand-up comics with less to laugh about
Nov 24, 2023
Anti-Semitism: How it should and should not be defined
Nov 24, 2023
The Gaza crisis was a ticking time bomb
Nov 24, 2023
How Karnataka’s maths reflect the interplay of power, piety, and politics
Nov 24, 2023
Is this Mandal 2.0?
Nov 24, 2023
Conflating Hinduism with Vedic religion is a dangerous distortion
Nov 24, 2023
Assault on NewsClick marks the lowest point for media freedom in India since Emergency
Nov 24, 2023