Keen to display a strongman image by making swift and decisive moves, a political leader with an eye on electoral benefits can ratchet up tensions and fuel escalation dynamics, writes Sushant Singh.
As The Government Failed Manipur, Once Peace-Loving People Picked Up Weapons, Fought & Died
The Manipur government’s failure to end the ethnic violence has caused ordinary Meitei and Kuki—a poet, a university student, an ironsmith—to pick up arms and die because they felt they had to defend their people.
The ‘half negative’ and other graphic memories of legendary Kashmiri photojournalist Meraj Ud Din
His rich archive of images bears painful witness to decades of strife as the territory endures a new era of censorship and erasure, writes Freny Maneckshaw.
Eleven intelligence inputs warning of Pulwama attack were ignored
Frontline’s investigation reveals that 11 intelligence inputs warning of the Pulwama terrorist attack of February 14, 2019, were ignored. Who was responsible for the “oversight”, which resulted in the death of 40 CRPF personnel, the Balakot surgical strike, and ultimately the thumping electoral victory of the BJP?