A fundamental difference between venom and poison is how toxins enter the victim’s body. As a venom evolution expert describes it, “If you bite it and you die it’s poison, but if it bites you and you die, that’s venom.” The telltale sign of venom is that it is introduced via a wound. In much the […]
CPI(M) General Secretary Sitaram Yechury addresses a foundation stone laying ceremony of the building of Jyoti Basu Centre For Social Studies and Research, at Kolkata, January 17, 2024. | Photo Credit: PTI On this page, readers will find a remarkable collection of interviews with Sitaram Yechury (1952-2024), conducted by Frontline over the span of several decades. These conversations […]
Rahul Gandhi listens to children during the Bharat Jodo Yatra, in Makthal in Telangana’s Narayanpet district on October 27, 2022. | Photo Credit: NAGARA GOPAL For dialogue, first ask, then… listen. From Proverbs and Songs by Spanish poet Antonio Machado In a conversation at Texas University, Dallas, on September 9, opposition leader Rahul Gandhi touched […]
For most of its existence, the Jammu and Kashmir National Conference (NC) and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have shared a similar defining feature: their steadfast alignment with pro-India politics in Jammu and Kashmir. Despite varying levels of influence and power over the years, the NC and PDP leaderships have faced local resentment and separatist anger […]
Jawhar Sircar speaking in the Rajya Sabha. | Photo Credit: ANI Jawhar Sircar, Rajya Sabha MP of the Trinamool Congress, dropped a political bomb on September 8, by sending his resignation letter to West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool supremo Mamata Banerjee, citing the State government’s “faulty handling” of the rape and murder case at […]
Former President Donald Trump’s plan to have Elon Musk lead a government efficiency commission would vault the world’s richest man to an unprecedented role: American oligarch. The details of the commission and Musk’s involvement are still vague, but any formal role in government would give greater influence to the billionaire owner of Tesla, Space X, […]
A drone attack by militants on Manipur’s Koutruk village on September 1 marks a phase of escalation of conflict after a relative lull of four months. “She had bought a new phanek (sarong), along with her friends, with the money they earned from working in a nearby field. Wearing it, she had gone to her […]
In May this year, a picture of a banned Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI) leader casting his vote in the Parliamentary election in South Kashmir’s Pulwama district surprised everyone in the valley, marking a significant shift in the region’s political dynamic. The organisation, which boycotted elections for 30 years, has now indicated a willingness to join the mainstream […]
“Waqf” means the permanent dedication of movable or immovable property for the purposes enshrined in Islam as pious, religious, or charitable. The administration of waqf institutions was entrusted to different entities at different times in India. During the Muslim Rule in India, the waqf administration was decentralised and controlled by provincial and district officers, such […]
Mahatma Gandhi speaks with Jawaharlal Nehru in Bombay, in 1946. Both Gandhi and Nehru represented a tradition of “thinking-in-action” or “thinking-in-politics” that characterised Indian political thought during the anti-colonial movement. | Photo Credit: Getty Images Yogendra Yadav took a dig(Indian Express, August 26) at practitioners of modern political thought and theory in India by pronouncing […]