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In this interview, Grover tells Frontline that a film clicks or connects with people if it has honesty.Â

Art has to provide a creative way to resist: Varun Grover

President Vladimir Putin looks at Russian military officers during a wreath-laying in Moscow in June 2024. Ukraineâ€™s Operation Spiderâ€™s Web may mark a turning point in the post-Cold War orderâ€”Russia is no longer feared, just exposed.

MIND OF THE LIFE

Is Russia losing its status as a global power?

117 drones, five airfields, one wounded egoâ€”Ukraineâ€™s strike exposed not just Russiaâ€™s defences, but its dwindling claim to global heft.

Aditya Sinha

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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi addresses PCC members, district and block presidents, party leaders, and workers at the party conference in Ravindra Bhawan, Bhopal, on June 3.

Congress seeks to revive fortunes in Madhya Pradesh

Hoping to reverse its losing streak in the State, the party is revamping its organisation with an emphasis on decentralised decision-making.

A crowd of fans gather in large numbers during Royal Challengers Bengaluruâ€™s felicitation ceremony after winning the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025, in front of Vidhana Soudha, in Bengaluru on June 4, 2025.

Bengaluru stadium stampede: Who is responsible for the deaths at RCBâ€™s victory event?

FIRs blame organisers, but evidence shows that the State government approved the event despite police warnings.Â

Vikhar Ahmed Sayeed

Yunus speaks at a session during the World Economic Forum (WEF). The promise of renewal after Sheikh Hasinaâ€™s fall has given way to instability. With stalled elections, political bans, and military interference, Bangladesh risks slipping into deeper authoritarianism under a caretaker regime.

Can Yunus still deliver Bangladesh from the brink?

The Nobel laureate was meant to clean up after Hasina. Ten months in, the streets are still on fire, and the ballot box stays locked.

Nirupama Subramanian

General (Retd.) N. C. Vij addresses the gathering during the book launch event of Alone in the Ring: Decision-Making in Critical Times, at Kamala Devi Complex in New Delhi on May 15, 2025.

Pakistan has always considered India as existential threat: General N.C. Vij

The former Chief of Army Staff says India always viewed a stable Pakistan as in its interest, but Islamabad sees New Delhi as permanent threat.

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Spotlight

From the execution of Mansur al-Hallaj to the censorship of â€œHum Dekhengeâ€, poetic expression in South Asia has long served as a vehicle for spiritual rebellion and political resistance.

In Faiz, they hear blasphemy, because they fear what he truly stood for

Ashutosh Sharma

The razing of a decades-old Tamil migrant settlement in Delhi exposes the widening gap between political promises and urban housing policy.

What Madrasi Camp reveals about urban citizenship

Valmik Thapar in Kochi in 2012. His legacy lies in pushing the conservation discourse beyond romanticism and into the realm of politics, law, and ecological complexity.

Valmik Thapar (1952-2025): A force for nature

Thapar watched tigers with ferocious focus, and brought the same tireless intensity to writing, policy fights, and battling bureaucratic inertia.

$Phanishwar Nath Renuâ€™s fiction exposed the unfinished promises of Independence, bringing the fractured lives of rural India into sharp literary and political focus.$

Phanishwar Nath Renu (1921-1977): The man who decolonised language

Ashutosh Kumar Thakur

Gukesh DommarajuÂ and Magnus CarlsenÂ at the second Norway Chess tournament game on June 1, 2025.

When Gukesh went at â€˜Kingâ€™ Carlsen and didnâ€™t miss

Suhrid Sankar Chattopadhyay

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