Vaishna Roy Editor, Frontline

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Editor’s note: The other freedom fight

Periyar knew self-rule without self-respect meant servitude in disguise. A hundred years later, his point still stands—loudly.

Oct 08, 2025

The RSS quietly captured India’s institutions, challenging the country’s secular and plural foundations.

Editor’s Note: A century of dissimulation

How India’s most powerful “cultural organisation” cloaked its divisive political agenda in the garb of nationalism and unity.

Sep 24, 2025

Women voters show their ink-marked fingers after casting votes for the Lok Sabha election, at Barwada Village in Jaipur on April 19, 2024.

Editor’s Note: Truth on the ballot

The republic’s promise rests on honest rolls and fair counts. Without them, democracy is a sham.

Sep 10, 2025

School children carrying Indian national flags run along a paddy field, on the eve of Independence Day, at Bergram, in Birbhum district, West Bengal, Thursday, August 14, 2025.

Editor’s Note: Miles to go

A century after empire, India’s classrooms remain bound by caste, class, and narrow nationalism, far from Tagore’s vision of equal schooling.

Aug 26, 2025

The Prime Minister’s ambition of India becoming a global superpower by 2047 is laudable, but it will need his government to rapidly upgrade the country’s education and health levels to global standards.

Editor’s Note: Viksit Bharat needs more than GDP growth

Without investing in education, health, and jobs, the 2047 dream will remain a slogan.

Aug 05, 2025

While it seems that Netanyahu could be forced to accept a Trump-brokered ceasefire in the near future, the concessions he might be granted will probably strengthen Israel’s hands and further weaken Palestinian hopes for a just homeland.

Editor’s Note: How the West broke West Asia

The crisis in Gaza is the latest convulsion in a region disfigured by colonial cartography and sustained by oil-fuelled Western ambition.

Jul 23, 2025

People wait to cast their votes during the 2024 Lok Sabha election, in Saran, Bihar, on May 20, 2024.

Editor’s Note: The Bihar paradox

Despite the urgent need for jobs, schools, and hospitals, this Assembly election, like others before it, will be fought on caste.

Jul 08, 2025

The RSS has cunningly blended Hindutva with Axomiya nationalism to create a fount of insecurity in Assam, and the resentment that was once directed against all immigrants crossing over is now being honed against Muslim immigrants alone.

Editor’s Note: The Assam template

Target a community, arm the rest, and call it security. If it worked in Manipur—for a while—why not try it next door?

Jun 25, 2025

An artist applies the final touches to a mural of the iconic actor Raj Kapoor on a wall in Bandra, Mumbai, on January 5, 2025. In many ways, Kapoor’s career, cinema, and concerns closely shadow India’s own.

Editor’s Note: Raj Kapoor’s India