India’s National Fortnightly Magazine | Frontline

Many across Ladakh believe that political representation in the region is being steadily hollowed out.

Political Representation

Democracy faces a long winter in Ladakh

Zaid Bin Shabir

The Rohingya camp in Kalindi Kunj, New Delhi, on October 26, 2022. The recent remarks from India’s highest judge signal a growing hostility toward the Rohingya, a community the United Nations has termed “the most persecuted minority in the world”.

Red carpet for deportation?

A Supreme Court hearing on missing Rohingya becomes a swipe at “intruders”, even as evidence points to covert expulsions carried out like trafficking.

Saurav Das

FL 15-12-2025.jpg

Read the Latest Issue

A war not its own

Zombie economics

Videos

WATCH | Ashutosh Sharma in conversation with senior security expert Yashovardhan Jha

WATCH | Ashutosh Sharma in conversation with senior security expert Yashovardhan Jha

WATCH | Amit Baruah in conversation with Yashwant Sinha

WATCH | Amit Baruah in conversation with Ramanathan Kumar, former head of R&AW’s Pakistan desk

WATCH | Why India exists because of the monsoon | Author Sunil Tambe explains

WATCH | Gowhar Geelani in conversation with Imran Nabi Dar

WATCH | Why are human-tiger conflicts growing in India? Ullas Karanth explains.

WATCH | What makes Serendipity Arts Festival so unique? Sunil Kant Munjal explains.

WATCH | Prashant Bhushan on SIR, voter deletions, and the ECI’s credibility crisis

WATCH | Inside Delhi’s pollution protest: Public health, policy, and the right to breathe

WATCH | Nirupama Subramanian in conversation with Vignesh Rajahmani

VIEW ALL VIDEOS

Editor's Pick

Mukerji’s Brahmāstra offered spectacle without coherence: a shaky script, clunky dialogue that awkwardly switched between English and Hindi, and mythology that felt decorative rather than rooted.

Myths and money

Can Indian fantasy films outgrow their formulas?

Supernatural films are minting crores, but as budgets balloon and scripts chase universality, the genre’s subversive edge risks going dull.

Actor Dileep with his fans on the court premises after the verdict on December 8, 2025. After the case rocked the Malayalam film industry, Dileep found support from his fellow actors while the woman actor-survivor had to literally vanish from plain sight.

Kerala court sets actor Dileep free in abduction and sexual assault case

Ernakulam sessions court cleared Dileep of conspiracy, saying prosecution failed to prove his role; six, including “Pulsar” Suni, found guilty.

R.K. Radhakrishnan

Pandit Bhimsen Joshi’s middle style was where his music achieved a remarkable and sustained equipoise between power and affect.

Mastering the middle

The middle style marks a phase in a musician’s life when thought and craft entwine so completely that invention flows without the scaffolding showing.

A still from the climax of Green Girl directed by Sarthak Hegde. The film has an acute sense of what is at stake—life—but has a deep desire to not forget, even as life is at stake, that one cannot stop living.

Counter Culture

Green Girl: A rippling spectacle of loss

A bold Kannada film blends tragic Hindu-Muslim love, political tension, and dreamlike style to reveal how beauty becomes the texture of loss.

Prathyush Parasuraman

Next in Context

Johnson & Johnson’s toxic asset

Shillong Literary Festival

In Shillong, literature breathes easy

Netanyahu’s coalition conundrum

Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2025: Being in the body

Whose agent is the Booth Level Agent?

Spotlight

The economist said discrepancies in the data have been large between the expenditure side and the production side.

India’s real growth may be 2.5–3 per cent, not 8 per cent: Arun Kumar

Sukumar Muralidharan

C. Radhakrishnan warns that entrenched interests now capture power through political manipulation and media subservience.

World classics, the Upanishads, the Gita, and popular science made me who I am: C. Radhakrishnan

Supporters of the Jamaat-e-Islami party demanding legal status to the “July Charter” and its ratification by a referendum ahead of Bangladesh's national elections, in Dhaka, on November 11, 2025.

Where BNP–Jamaat go next

Their old alliance is gone. The real contest begins now as both parties scramble for ground and seek new coalitions.

Tom Stoppard at The Hay Festival on June 5, 2010, in Hay-on-Wye, Wales. A refugee child who became a giant of the stage, Stoppard transformed exile into art.

Tom Stoppard (1937-2025): Death as plaything

Christmas decorations made overseas in China, Cambodia, and Vietnam are displayed for sale in Richmond, California, on November 4, 2025, as the US Supreme Court considers the legality of President Donald Trump's global tariffs.

ASEAN in Trump’s tariff squeeze

C.P. Chandrasekhar

Featured Authors

Iftikhar Gilani

Arts & Culture

Sections

Sign in to Unlock member-only benefits!

Bookmark stories to read later.
Comment on stories to start conversations.
Subscribe to our newsletters.
Get notified about discounts and offers to our products.