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The Education of Donald Trump

Listen to this article: Back in 2016, just after the shock election of Donald Trump to the White House, one of the authors of this article suggested,...

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Bamo nouri and

Midnight FIRs, Undercover Police Counselling Employees: Questions Surround the 'TCS' Case

Listen to this article: Mangaluru: It was a particularly busy night at the Mumbai Naka police station in Nashik. During the intervening night of April...

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Sukanya Shantha

In Samserganj, SIR Exclusions Have Altered the Electoral Field Even Before Votes Are Cast

Listen to this article: Kolkata: Last year, Samserganj in Murshidabad’s border belt made national headlines after communal tension over the Waqf...

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Aparna Bhattacharya

No Bikes, No Tourists, No Entry to Complexes With Booths: EC Regulations Exhaust Bengal Residents

Listen to this article: Kolkata: Thirty-year-old Jay Acharya lives in Sonarpur, on the outskirts of Kolkata. The sales agent of a paint company, every...

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Anwesha banerjee

Why Pakistan’s Diplomatic Win Need Not Be India’s Loss

Listen to this article: South Asia rarely knows what to do with a moment that is not zero-sum. In a region as combustible as ours, that should be an...

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Rabia akhtar

The End of Naxalism, the End of Accountability

Listen to this article: Naxalism may have more or less ended by Union home minister Amit Shah’s March 31 deadline with the vast majority of Maoist...

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Nandini Sundar

Representation, Redistribution and India’s Revised Federal Compact

Listen to this article: The recent bill to amend the Women’s Reservation Bill, which failed to pass in the Lok Sabha, was tethered to delimitation,...

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Ankur singh and

US Opens Process for Trump Tariff Refunds, But Indian Exporters Unlikely to See the Benefits

Listen to this article: New Delhi: Since the US Supreme Court has ruled that President Donald Trump’s “reciprocal” tariffs imposed from April...

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The Wire Staff

Day 54 of US-Israel War on Iran: Trump Says US Has Extended Ceasefire to Give More Time to Tehran

Listen to this article: New Delhi: The crisis in West Asia triggered by the US and Israel’s attack on Iran entered day 54 on Wednesday (April 22)....

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The Wire Staff

Delimitation Must Be Rooted Within a Broader Reset of Union-State Relations

Listen to this article: While the government failed to garner the majority required to pass The Constitution (One Hundred and Thirty-First. Amendment)...

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Sarayu Pani

'Under an Invisible Lock': In Post-Pahalgam Kashmir, Locals Live and Survive Silently

Listen to this article: Pahalgam/Shopian: Every day at the crack of dawn, Ishfaq Nazeer’s ears, conditioned to awaken to the azaan that echoes from...

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Tarushi Aswani

Madhu Kishwar Booked For Circulation of 'Forged' and 'Misleading' Social Media Content

Listen to this article: New Delhi: Teams of Chandigarh and Delhi police reached the office of writer Madhu Purnima Kishwar, a day after she was booked...

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The Wire Staff

Tamil Nadu Campaign Ends as State Shapes Into a Three-Cornered Contest

Listen to this article: New Delhi: The curtains have come down on one of Tamil Nadu’s most layered and closely watched election campaigns in recent...

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The Wire Analysis

Why the Uttar Pradesh SIR is a Riddle

Listen to this article: By now, the special intensive revision (SIR) has been completed in 10 states and three Union territories, namely Andaman and...

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Sanjay Kumar

A Year After Pahalgam, Modi Govt Yet to Clarify 'Lapses' That Led to Attack

Listen to this article: Srinagar: A year after the Pahalgam terrorist attack, the Bhartiya Janta Party-led Union government is yet to specify the...

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Jehangir Ali

As Rajnath Singh Lands in Germany, Two-Decades-Old Submarine Project Still Awaits Deal

Listen to this article: New Delhi: With Defence Minister Rajnath Singh in Germany to deepen defence ties, a stubborn reality overshadows the visit:...

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Rahul Bedi

‘Blatant Abuse of Power’: Congress MP Submits Privilege Motion Against PM Modi in Lok Sabha

Listen to this article: New Delhi: Congress MP K.C. Venugopal has submitted a privilege notice against Prime Minister Narendra Modi alleging that he...

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The Wire Staff

Record FPI Outflows, Crude Price Surge, Even as India Inc Expands Overseas

Listen to this article: New Delhi: India recorded a sharp rise in outbound investment in March even as foreign portfolio investors continued to...

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The Wire Staff

What We Need to Do to Understand Manipur

Listen to this article: The only time Manipur enters into our collective national consciousness is when there is violence. The violence is usually...

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Nandita Haksar

‘BJP, TMC Jointly Involved,’ Say Villagers as Bankura’s Sand-Mining Devours Land, Lives and Law

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Madhu Sudan Chatterjee

Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma Asks Litigants to Prove Bias, Not Merely to Apprehend it Reasonably

Listen to this article: Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma of the Delhi high court on April 20 dismissed former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal’s...

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The Wire Analysis

Day 52 of US-Israel War on Iran: Iran Says Negotiations Can't Happen Under 'Shadow of Threats'

Listen to this article: New Delhi: The crisis in West Asia triggered by the US and Israel’s attack on Iran entered day 52 on Tuesday (April 21)....

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The Wire Staff

Please, Modi ji, Don’t Shed Tears for India's Women

Listen to this article: Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi ji, You had stated in your address to the nation on the women’s reservation issue that...

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Brinda Karat

The Illusion of Balance: Why India Must Reclaim Strategic Autonomy Now

Listen to this article: In the mid-2024, India was buying more than 2 million barrels per day (bpd) of oil, some 43-44% of its imports, from Russia....

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Manoj Joshi

Is Bengal's Lakshmir Bhandar Scheme a Patriarchal Model? Economists and Beneficiaries Debate

Listen to this article: Lakshmi Das and her daughter Jayanti sell sweets from door to door. At least four days a week, Lakshmi, with two heavily...

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Anwesha banerjee

In Excise Policy Hearing, Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma Won't Recuse Herself

Listen to this article: New Delhi: Delhi high court judge, Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma on Monday (April 20) rejected the petition filed by Aam Aadmi...

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The Wire Staff

India's Crippling Dependence on Imported Aero Engines

Listen to this article: Chandigarh: The outcome of India’s Atmanirbhar or indigenous military aviation ambitions is determined less by design...

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Rahul Bedi

A Society Built as Caste Cannot Be Reformed Into Equality

Listen to this article: Below is the edited transcript of a speech delivered online by Professor Anand Teltumbde, on April 17, 2026, at a seminar on...

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Anand Teltumbde

BJP’s 'Men’s Reservation Bill' Defeated, But When will Women's Reservation Win?

Listen to this article: Opposition parties were successful in defeating the “Mens’s Reservation Bill” clad as Women’s reservation Bill  and...

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Shivasundar

More Than 700 Citizens Complain to EC Over MCC Violation in PM Modi's 'Address to Nation'

Listen to this article: New Delhi: Over 700 concerned citizens have signed a complaint to the Election Commission of India noting that Prime Minister...

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The Wire Staff

What India Can Learn from Hungary’s Democratic Comeback

Listen to this article: I felt a surge of jubilation on learning that the people of Hungary had finally ousted their long-entrenched strongman, Viktor...

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Anand Teltumbde

Workers Protests Highlight the Fault Lines that the State Must Address

Listen to this article: Recent protests across Noida, Manesar, Gurugram, and Panipat – now extending into adjoining industrial clusters – might...

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Kawalpreet Kaur

What the Voter Purges in Three Constituencies Reveals About West Bengal's SIR

Listen to this article: A granular analysis of deleted voter rolls in three West Bengal constituencies suggests that what is being presented as...

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Aparna Bhattacharya

Denial and Damage Control: What the I-PAC Pause Row Could Mean For TMC

Listen to this article: Kolkata: In politics, a story often acquires real weight the moment it is denied. That is what unfolded on April 19 in West...

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Aparna bhattacharya and

Elections Come and Go, But Jangalmahal's Questions and Sufferings Persist

Listen to this article: Lalgarh (Bengal): By the third week of April, Lalgarh, under the Jhargram district of Bengal’s Jangalmahal had already begun...

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Madhu Sudan Chatterjee

Nine Takeaways From Modi Govt’s Loss Over Constitution Amendment Bills for Delimitation

Listen to this article: The Narendra Modi government’s defeat over the Constitution Amendment three-Bills package to get new rules for the next...

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The Wire Analysis

Amendment Falls, Delimitation Gambit Fails, Permanent Majority Push Falters

Listen to this article: The Constitution (One Hundred and Thirty-First Amendment) Bill, 2026, moved by the Union Government to redistribute...

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Zoya Hasan

NMMS Didn’t End Corruption in MGNREGA. It Changed Its Shape – and Locked Workers Out

Listen to this article: For five hours, around 30 workers stood at a worksite in Raichur district of Karnataka, waiting – not for work, but for...

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Chakradhar buddha and

Not For Failure to Push Bills Through Parliament, Modi Should Have Apologised to Women Over Bigger Failures

Listen to this article: Let’s get this straight first – it was not the Women’s Reservation Bill 2026 which was rejected by the opposition...

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Vrinda Gopinath

Day 52 of US-Israel War on Iran: US Captures Iran-Flagged Ship, Cloud Over Pakistan Talks

Listen to this article: President Donald Trump has now said that the US has forcibly seized an Iranian-flagged cargo ship that tried to get around the...

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The Wire Staff

Becoming Schrödinger’s Voter

Listen to this article: In quantum mechanics, Schrödinger’s cat is both alive and dead until observed. In contemporary Bengal, that paradox has...

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Nandita roy

In Bengal SIR, 'Logical Discrepancy' Became the Election Commission's Alibi for Mass Voter Exclusion

Listen to this article: Logical discrepancy is a malady that seems to have afflicted some of the highest echelons of the Indian state. One is not...

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Partha Chatterjee

Noida Workers' Protest: Lawyers, Activists Allege 'Witchhunt' by UP Police, Illegal Detentions, False Narratives

Listen to this article: New Delhi: The Uttar Pradesh police and administration have engaged in a “witch-hunt” and “repression” of workers and...

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The Wire Staff

Atmospheric And Local Land Factors Together Create Heatwaves Over the Indo-Gangetic Plain

Listen to this article: New Delhi: The Indo-Gangetic plain region is one of the most heavily affected by heatwaves in India. A new study shows that...

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The Wire Staff

CPI, CPI(M), Congress Flag MCC Violations in PM Modi's 'Address to Nation'

Listen to this article: New Delhi: A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi delivered an extraordinary public speech targeting opposition parties...

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The Wire Staff

Interview | Geeta Parag, Kabir Singer, on Breaking Caste and Patriarchal Barriers Through Nirgun Music

Listen to this article: Kabir khade baazaar mein, chaahe sabki khair, naa kaahu se dosti naa kaahu se bair. Kabir stands in the marketplace, wishing...

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Anjana Rajan

Lines, Purchase Caps and Support: How Bangladesh Is Managing a Fuel Crisis

Listen to this article:  Dhaka: Sohel Rana, a businessman, went to buy fuel for his motorbike on April 14, the first day of the Bangla New Year 1433,...

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Jebun nesa alo

Manipur Erupts Again: Protests Intensify Over April 7 Killing of Two Children In Their Home

Listen to this article: New Delhi: Manipur is on the boil again. Fresh protests are rocking the state after two children were killed and their mother...

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The Wire Staff

It’s the Small Things | Saved by a Cat

Listen to this article: In the quiet, disciplined rows of an army cantonment in Devlali in Maharashtra, life usually followed a predictable rhythm....

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Aadrita hazarika

CPI MP Writes to Chief Election Commissioner on MCC Violations in Modi's Speech

Listen to this article: New Delhi: Communist Party of India Rajya Sabha MP Sandosh Kumar P. has written to Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar...

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