Representative image of a labourer in a stone quarry (photo: National Herald archives)

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The Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra is an important platform for Rahul Gandhi to resonate with the youth too (photo: @bharatjodo/X)

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Rahul Gandhi’s new march: Will it rewrite India’s political destiny?

Blurry blast from the past: L.K. Advani (centre) with Atal Bihari Vajpayee and a few other familiar faces in Ranchi, 2014 (photo: @_LKAdvani/X)

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Ayodhya: Chronology of an 'accident'

PM Modi snorkelling in Lakshadweep (photo: @narendramodi/X)

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Why Indians suddenly love Lakshadweep

Bilkis Bano, 15 years after the event, holds her infant daughter. The Bombay High Court had just upheld the rapists' life sentence & convicted 5 policemen, 2 doctors for covering up the crime (photo: Raj K Raj/Hindustan Times/Getty Images)

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Herald View: Bilkis, maybe there’s hope still

Maharashtra speaker Rahul Narvekar ruled in favour of the Eknath Shinde (left) faction as the official Shiv Sena, rejecting submissions from the Uddhav Thackeray faction (photo: National Herald archives)

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Will Maharashtra speaker’s ruling lead BJP to engineer defections in Bihar, Bengal?

Aaditya Thackeray has breathed fire and brimstone against the ruling (photo: @AUThackeray/X)

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Maharashtra: A battle lost, war remains to be won

During the first Covid-19 wave, Muslim citizens found themselves pilloried, blacklisted, detained for 'corona jihad'.  Representative image shows a group of Muslim youth in surgical masks (photo: National Herald archives)

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The curious case of the 'corona jihad'

What can be a new mantra for India? Representative image shows a Bharat Jodo Yatra logo over a text collage showing: inflation, poorer, inequality, suppression, subversion, propaganda, jumla, coercive, divisiveness, hate, discrimination etc

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INDIA in 2024: What will the new mantra be?

Babri Masjid being demolished on 6 December 1992 (photo: National Herald archives)

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INDIA in 2024: Know your enemy to fight it

Representative image of a row of Buddhas/bodhisattvas—that is, the Buddha in many lives and iterations (photo: IANS)

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Of death, deja vu and many lives

Representative image of Indian youth in a Pride parade with the rainbow flag and a placard saying "Love only knows equality" (photo: National Herald archives)

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India 2024: Have faith in the youth, says Leela Samson

Eknath Shinde (photo: IANS)

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Maharashtra: With Haji Malang, Eknath Shinde is lighting a fire for personal gain