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Women voters show their inked fingers after casting their votes in Purba Medinipur, West Bengal, on May 25.
Mandate 2024

How women voted

T.K. Rajalakshmi
Sharebrokers watch BSE Sensex and NSE Nifty stocks fall at the Calcutta Stock Exchange, a file picture. 
MARKET WATCH

What it means for the market and economy

Mitali Mukherjee
Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the inauguration of the Kashi Vishwanath Dham Corridor in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, on December 13, 2021.
MANDATE 2024

Jan ki baat: How voters humbled Modi by rejecting authoritarianism and embracing inclusive politics

India voted emphatically for political, social, and economic inclusion, for a more consultative government, and for the sanctity of the Constitution.
Nirupama Subramanian

Editor's Pick

DMK members celebrate at the DMK headquarters in Chennai on June 4, 2024.
MANDATE 2024

How the DMK-led alliance has swept Tamil Nadu, thwarting BJP’s perception battle

It has won all 39 seats with its social justice plank anchored in secularism. While BJP’s vote share rose, AIADMK suffered its worst electoral defeat.
Ilangovan Rajasekaran
MANDATE 2024

Kashmir’s revolt at the ballot box

The increased voter turnout reflects the public’s non-acceptance of the abrogation of Article 370 and their discontent with the BJP.
Irfan Amin Malik
MANDATE 2024

Why the BJP suffered a shocking defeat in Faizabad, the home of the Ram Mandir

Despite raising the Ayodhya Ram temple issue with an eye on the election, the saffron party fell short of its goal in the constituency.
Ashutosh Sharma
On the final day of Sonam Wangchuk’s 21-day hunger strike in Leh on March 26.
Mandate 2024

Why the lotus wilted in Ladakh

The victory of the independent candidate Mohmad Haneefa Jan signals that voters have united over statehood and Sixth Schedule demands.
Zaid Bin Shabir

Audio Stories

Environment

Kashmir’s famed saffron fields are under siege

Controversy

Inheritance taxes: A key step towards reducing economic inequality

West Asia

Israel’s diversionary attack on Iran has set off a new security crisis in West Asia

Election 2024

India’s employment crisis: Jobless growth, threat of automation, and impact of climate change on productivity

Spotlight

Spotlight

MANDATE 2024

The Dalit-Bahujan finally roars

A new anti-caste spectrum is emerging. And that promises to put social justice on the centre stage while signalling that BJP is not an alternative.
K. Kalyani

Photo Essay

Photo Essay

Art

Art of resistance: Venice Biennale, 2024

At the 60th edition, works on politics, war, sexuality, identity, and anticolonial defiance converge to make a grand statement against oppression.
Shaikh Ayaz

Arts & Culture

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Current Issue

Members of the UNAU tribal women’s forum at a protest against the ethnic violence in Manipur, in New Delhi on May 4.
Manipur | One Year Later — Lede

Eyes wide shut: How the state turns away from Manipur’s realities

The government’s demonisation of the Kuki-Zo and support for radical Meitei groups has driven a permanent wedge between the two communities.
Greeshma Kuthar
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A member of UNAU Tribal Women’s Forum during a protest over the ethnic violence in Manipur, at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi, on May 4, 2024.
Manipur | One Year Later

Editor’s Note: The deafening silence on Manipur

As PM Modi floods the airwaves with bizarre edicts, the silence around Manipur’s tragedy lays bare the state’s unequal treatment of human suffering.
Vaishna Roy
Manipur | One Year Later

Arambai Tenggol: How a Meitei ‘sociocultural organisation’ became an armed-to-the-teeth militia

Angshuman Choudhury
Manipur | One Year Later

Singing in the dark: How artists from Manipur are reacting to the conflict

Angana Chakrabarti
From the Sidelines

400? 272? 210?

Saba Naqvi
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