It’s defection season ...and Raghav Chadha and others now with the BJP have the media’s ears

POLITICS

Defections, FIRs rule the roost

West Bengal now faces a violent and terrifying transformation

Opinion

Waking up in West Bengal under the BJP

West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari

Opinion

From Nandigram to Nabanna: The contradictions of Suvendu Adhikari’s rise

Congress leaders celebrate the UDF victory in Kerala

POLITICS

How the deep south was won

Voters in phase 1 of Lok Sabha elections, in Rajasthan, 19 April 2024

Opinion

Democracy’s topsoil is blowing away

Villages that grow tonnes of water-guzzling sugarcane also clamour for tankers to supply drinking water

Opinion

Of sugar highs and water lows

TVK chief Vijay celebrates his party’s victory, but the challenges of coalition politics still lie ahead

Opinion

Vijay pries open the politics of Tamil Nadu

BJP workers in Kolkata celebrate the brute majority the party won on 4 May

Opinion

A people’s mandate lost in the fog of SIR

The border at Attari-Wagah

Opinion

One year of Operation Sindoor: South Asia needs diplomacy more than deterrence

Representative image voter ID cards

Opinion

Deleted voters must not be forgotten

Deleted voters gather before an SIR tribunal in Murshidabad, West Bengal, 13 April

Media

NAMO in, SIR out: an election the media did not question

BJP supporters celebrate at Ranaghat, in Nadia, 4 May

Opinion

Big changes and some bigger questions

The caption writes itself

Opinion

BJP had the ‘machinery’ backing it, Mamata Banerjee did not