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Mind, marriage, law: Re-assessing family dynamics in India

Mind, marriage, law: Re-assessing family dynamics in India

In June 2025, Rithanya from Tamil Nadu’s Tiruppur district died by suidcide allegedly due to dowry harassment, triggering debates across the...

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Gitanjali diwakar

Tamil Nadu’s battle for political relevance and a share in the national pie

Tamil Nadu’s battle for political relevance and a share in the national pie

The impending delimitation of parliamentary constituencies has triggered a sharp response from Tamil Nadu, and for good reason. The state fears a...

26.05.2026 10

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Raghunath Nageswaran

The sound of the mukavinai: How a theatre ensemble is preserving a little-known instrument

The sound of the mukavinai: How a theatre ensemble is preserving a little-known instrument

“Kuttu paathi, kottu paathi,” says Perungattur Po Rajagopal, a professional Kattaikkuttu theatre artist, playwright, and the founder of...

26.05.2026 10

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Sasikumar panchu

Remembering DI Aravindan: Beyond writer and translator, a kind and generous human being

Remembering DI Aravindan: Beyond writer and translator, a kind and generous human being

When I first met Aravindan in 2014, he was working for The Hindu Tamil. I was meeting journalists from various publications in Chennai and he was one...

26.05.2026 20

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Tm krishna

Ring of concrete: The seven flyovers that will cost Hyderabad a national park

Ring of concrete: The seven flyovers that will cost Hyderabad a national park

At dawn, the Indian Grey Hornbill cruises over the Jubilee Hills police checkpost, five to 12 metres above the road, following a flight corridor that...

26.05.2026 10

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Sandeep khurana

Un-crushed cockroaches: Censorship only multiplies dissent

Un-crushed cockroaches: Censorship only multiplies dissent

The ruling class of the digital space — Gen Z — has once again asserted its dominance. A stray and isolated remark from the Chief Justice of India...

26.05.2026 10

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Subash mohan

El Niño: How women are disproportionately affected by the meteorological phenomenon

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has announced that an El Niño event is expected to develop from mid-2026, impacting global temperature...

27.04.2026 30

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Dr jean d’cunha

The vanishing vote: How villages are silenced to build the city

Members of Parliament from southern states have argued, with genuine democratic force, that delimitation of Lok Sabha constituencies based on current...

27.04.2026 30

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Dr narasimha reddy donthi

Fixing a 75-year-old flaw: Why Parliament must repeal 1950 Constitution order

Follow TNM's WhatsApp channel for news updates and story links. On March 24, 2026, the Supreme Court of India confirmed what the law has said...

23.04.2026 30

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Kashif Mansoor

Misreading Ambedkar: Why the Trans Amendment Act betrays the Preamble

Sumit Baudh’s recent piece seeks to invoke the writings of Dr BR Ambedkar to critique the focus on the right to self-identification of one’s...

21.04.2026 20

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Arvind Narrain

‘The problem is the male-constructed notion of purity’: TM Krishna writes on Sabarimala

Follow TNM's WhatsApp channel for news updates and story links. In the Indian context, the cultural and the spiritual are cohabitants of the...

15.04.2026 30

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Tm krishna

Does conversion erase caste? Supreme Court says yes, reality says otherwise

The Supreme Court, in the case of Chinthada Anand v. The State of Andhra Pradesh and others, recently ruled that individuals who convert to...

11.04.2026 30

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Payal gaikwad

Reality check: India can downplay Pakistan’s role in US-Iran ceasefire, but can’t deny it

Israel has bombed Lebanon despite a temporary ceasefire between the US and Iran, putting a fragile Pakistan-brokered truce in West Asia at risk. After...

11.04.2026 30

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Nirupama Subramanian

Self identification and the transgender law: An Ambedkarite view

Follow TNM's WhatsApp channel for news updates and story links. Debates around amendments to India’s transgender law have once again brought...

09.04.2026 30

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Sumit Baudh

Who pays the bill?: The real cost of the war in West Asia for India

John Mearsheimer writes in The Tragedy of Great Power Politics: “States rarely go to war unless they think that rapid success is likely.” It has...

06.04.2026 40

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Vivek Kaul

Opinion: Beyond simultaneous elections – the need for deeper electoral reform

The renewed debate on simultaneous elections to the Lok Sabha and state Assemblies has brought electoral reform back into national focus. A Joint...

05.04.2026 30

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Shrikant karwa

From safeguard to weapon: The slow and steady evolution of FCRA

The journey of India’s Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act (FCRA), from a law meant to shield domestic politics from foreign influence to one...

02.04.2026 30

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Aakar Patel

Who really owns common lands? Mamallan Reservoir and the politics of ‘poramboke’

On January 24, during the annual bird race organised by the Madras Naturalists’ Society, we set out to count birds in the Great Salt Lake stretching...

26.03.2026 30

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T hari bharathi

A law without a people: How the 2026 Trans Bill excludes those it must protect

On Friday, March 13, the Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment Dr Virendra Kumar introduced the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights)...

22.03.2026 40

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Rihaa badhwar

Sexual assault survivors are waiving anonymity, but the system still holds them back

“I am Dr Asha Achy Joseph; a woman who has survived sexual assault at the workplace.” These were the opening lines of a powerful column by...

15.03.2026 40

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Indulekha Aravind

Andhra CM Naidu says ‘have more babies’ — women will pay the price

The government of Andhra Pradesh recently announced plans to implement the Draft Population Management Policy named Poshana - Shiksha - Suraksha from...

13.03.2026 30

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Swathysree s s

Opinion: If mismanaged, India’s LPG crisis can have far reaching consequences

A quarter of the gas, gone in 10 days The Strait of Hormuz is a strip of water barely 40 kilometres wide at its narrowest point, lying between Iran...

13.03.2026 40

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Dr narasimha reddy donthi

Imagining the reconversion of the bigot

What if those who came to assassinate MM Kalburgi or Gauri Lankesh had lived in the homes of these intellectuals for a week? What if they had spent...

01.03.2026 40

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Naveen Soorinje

Kerala elections: What the plea for ‘change’ entails

“Step aside, please, for the sake of change”: this is the call of the liberal intelligentsia in Kerala to the ruling CPI(M) on the eve of the...

27.02.2026 30

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Lipin ram

Opinion: The discomfiting maths behind Kerala’s viral ‘love story’ reels

A man and a woman stand close, garlands around their necks, looking deeply into each other’s eyes. He is 29, and she is 19, the text on the...

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Lakshmi Priya

How convicted ‘godmen’ are repackaged as cultural reformers

Every year on February 14, while much of the world marks Valentine’s Day as a celebration of love and companionship, a parallel campaign quietly but...

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Sriyanka Sahoo

Pregnant and refused care at a diagnostic centre over marital status

“An unmarried woman’s hymen must be guarded at all costs”: this phrase represents unanimity between family and community, who often gatekeep a...

16.02.2026 40

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Anju Rao G

Institutional reality vs abstract fear: A research-based analysis of criticisms of UGC Equity Bill

12.02.2026 30

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Murali Ramathoti

National security or identity politics? The Rohingya question in India

10.02.2026 30

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Sq Masood

Why Germany’s Opportunity Card may be a migration trap for Indians

06.02.2026 40

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Aju John

Union Budget 2026: Macroeconomic stability, fragile livelihoods

02.02.2026 40

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Ubaid Mushtaq

Why a caste census is crucial for Adi Dravidas in Tamil Nadu

29.01.2026 30

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D Ravikumar

The anaemia paradox: Why south Indian girls are anaemic despite wealthy GDP

24.01.2026 30

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John Roberts

The unsung heroes of justice: Why activists keep doing the system’s job

14.01.2026 30

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Sharada A L

Why Congress is mobilising to defend MNREGA

09.01.2026 20

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Vijay Thottathil

Grok, ‘bikini’ prompts, and the casual dehumanisation of women

05.01.2026 40

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Lakshmi Priya

The mobbing of Nidhhi and Samantha: When molestation is passed off as opinion

30.12.2025 30

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Sharada A L

Understanding Karunanidhi’s role in Tamil Nadu’s economic transformation

24.12.2025 40

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Suresh Sambandam

Gender empowerment: Examining Tamil Nadu’s women-centred development model

12.12.2025 30

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Dr Yazhini Pm

Digital spoons and kitchen pots: Instagram reels as cultural archives

11.12.2025 30

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Anjitha Gopi

Poorly informed criticism undermines Kerala’s drive against ‘extreme poverty’

16.11.2025 30

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R Ramakumar

In Andhra, dismantling village volunteers makes governance invisible in Adivasi areas

14.11.2025 20

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Chakradhar Buddha

Cost of health: How Karnataka's PPP hospitals can shut out the poor from free treatment

14.11.2025 30

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Swathi S Balachandra

Children’s Day 2025: Why India must fund climate education like our future depends on it

14.11.2025 20

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Priyanka Thirumurthy

The poverty debate in Kerala: Why eradication is never the end of the story

11.11.2025 40

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Cr Yadu

India’s gene-edited rice: Science needs sunlight, not spotlight

11.11.2025 40

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Sridhar Radhakrishnan

'A benevolent dictator': How a former student remembers Mary Roy

06.11.2025 40

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Indulekha Aravind

Nationwide SIR is a planned disenfranchisement of the poor and minorities

06.11.2025 50

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Shivasundar

While they were sleeping: How Bengaluru's leaders missed the urban boom

02.11.2025 40

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Ammu Joseph

Mile Sur Mera Tumhara failed in its second innings. What changed in two decades?

28.10.2025 40

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Anand Vardhan