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Decoding the NDA's big victory in Bihar

15-12-202530 STORIES

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Bihar Assembly Election—The Lede

The horse that outran the field

The NDA’s sweeping victory rested on a nine-point vote share lead and an exceptional mobilisation of women voters.

Game changed in Bihar

Bihar Assembly Election 2025

Editor’s note: A masterclass in ‘level’ playing fields

A pre-set game decided Bihar’s match. The ECI’s biased rulings, a silenced media, and a flood of cash have changed the rules of democracy.

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Bihar Assembly Election 2025

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How Nitish Kumar’s new social contract with women has converted decades of carefully targeted interventions into overwhelming political support.

BIHAR ASSEMBLY ELECTION 2025

The battle beyond Bihar

Regional parties now brace for a supercharged BJP, while INDIA bloc’s leadership looks shakier than ever.

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BIHAR ASSEMBLY ELECTION 2025

A vote against tokenism

Since voting for rival parties has not stopped the BJP’s ascent to power, Muslims now want alternatives that can safeguard their rights.

BIHAR ASSEMBLY ELECTION 2025

Can the son rise again?

Bihar’s verdict was not just an NDA win—it was the unmaking of Tejashwi Yadav’s inheritance. The big question is: will he reclaim the Mandal mantle?

FROM THE SIDELINES

The changing face of Bihar

The BJP has not only emerged as the single largest party, but its success in Mandal-transformed Bihar was dominated by privileged-caste candidates.

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Revision of electoral rolls

Lessons from Bihar SIR: Onus now on political parties

Although loath to admit it, the ECI has learnt from Bihar but it has shifted the burden of ensuring universal adult suffrage on to political parties.

Blast in Delhi on November 10, 2025

DELHI TERROR ATTACK

Red Fort blast exposes structural intelligence crisis

Despite the Modi government’s muscular rhetoric about secure borders and safer cities, its failures against terror attacks are piling up.

Ashutosh Sharma

Belling the RSS cat

Priyank Kharge’s uncomfortable questions about the RSS have turned the spotlight on an organisation that has long evaded regulatory scrutiny.

Vikhar Ahmed Sayeed

Priyank Kharge

FRONTLINE EXCLUSIVE

I’m asking the RSS to follow the law of the land: Priyank Kharge

The Karnataka Minister says his call for regulating RSS activities in public spaces is not about ideology but accountability.

Vikhar Ahmed Sayeed

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NORTH EAST INDIA

ONE: A political dream defying realpolitik

“One Voice, One Vision, One Northeast” comes at a crucial moment, but it will matter only if more regional parties join to form a united front.

Patricia Mukhim

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Coercion, not policy

The two-child norm of States like Madhya Pradesh is violence against the poor dressed up as population control.

The saffron obsession with state violence

With Modi and Shah making “terrorism” the centrepiece of domestic and foreign policy, the nation deserves to know what it has actually gained.

Mani Shankar Aiyar

Women Paddy Fields

Did Kerala end Extreme Poverty?

The State mounted a rare, laudable, hands-on hunt for extreme poverty, but the reality on the ground is far more complex than the headline claim.

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Economic Perspectives

Profit over public interest

The Centre’s push for PSB consolidation and foreign investment prioritises bank profitability over financial inclusivity.

C.P. Chandrasekhar

Shaheen Bagh’s bright legacy

The 2019 women-led protest cleared room for a new Muslim public sphere, giving young urban Muslims the confidence to stand visibly in their own story.

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A city stirred by dissent

A photo exhibition brings alive the power of the dissenting multitude during the Civil Disobedience Movement against colonial rule in 1930s Bombay.

Avrati Bhatnagar,Sumathi Ramaswamy

Tyeb Mehta Delhi

Tyeb Mehta: A mirror to the split self

A hundred years after his birth, if Tyeb Mehta’s works still disturb and disorient viewers, it is because he graphically captures the self’s violent s

Gaitonde

A new map to Gaitonde

A new book gathers rare drawings and interviews, giving V.S. Gaitonde’s silent, colour-soaked world the documentation he never cared to leave behind.

Astitva

Counter Culture

AI revolution and synthetic cinema

By trying to smoothen out the path to filmmaking, AI-driven cinema ends up eradicating the very desire for films. MAFF’25 is a case in point.

Prathyush Parasuraman

Priyambadha Jayakumar

M.S. Swaminathan was a product of history: Priyambada Jayakumar

The author of The Man Who Fed India on how “M.S.” bridged science and policy, his bond with Indira Gandhi, and the legacy of the Green Revolution.

Vasanth Srinivasan

Shrilal Shukla

Shrilal Shukla: The unsparing eye

Revaluating Shrilal Shukla’s oeuvre makes us realise that the India of broken promises which he wrote so sharply about persists unchanged to this day.

Amritesh Mukherjee

Field training exercise

The deep state’s snake pit

Srivastava shows how Pakistan’s military garrison, driven by an anti-India ideology, cultivates jihadist “snakes” that now bite their keeper.

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Interpreter of social maladies

Manu Joseph’s glib social commentary is generally sympathetic to the “poor”, yet sees poverty as one-dimensional and the poor as merely deprived.

Ravikant Kisana

Khasi women

Love, loss, and rain

The anthology blends oral traditions, sharp social insight, and ecological concerns, revealing the force of writers from the north-eastern region.

Rohini Mokashi Punekar

Longform

Wrapped in melancholy

Diversity and plurality are the motto in this anthology of persistently inward-looking graphic narratives.

New books on the shelves

A supernatural romantic thriller, the biography of a mighty river, and much more.

Maguni’s Bullock Cart

Maguni’s bullock cart

Translated from Odia by Leelawati Mohapatra, Paul St-Pierre, and K.K. Mohapatra

Godavarish Mahapatra

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