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Indian Politics · 12 Nov 2026 · 6 min read

Bihar’s Women Voters Have Outgrown the Commentariat’s Pet Explanations

Record female participation cannot be reduced to inducement, identity or elite-approved grievance. Women are judging delivery, security and welfare for themselves—and that autonomy unsettles the INDIA alliance’s narrative managers.

By Meenakshi Iyer

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Budget Reform Is Boring—Which Is Precisely Why It May Endure

Aditya Rao · 12 Nov 2026

Bihar’s Women Voted in Record Numbers; Delhi’s Commentariat Still Looked for a Conspiracy

Meenakshi Iyer · 11 Nov 2026

The New Tax Code’s Real Reform Is That Ordinary Indians May Finally Read It

Aditya Rao · 11 Nov 2026

Indian Sports

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Anahat Singh Should Not Need an Olympic Medal Before India Learns Her Name

Farah Sheikh · 12 Nov 2026

India’s Test Calendar Is Being Treated Like an Heirloom Nobody Intends to Use

Rohan Deshmukh · 12 Nov 2026

Neeraj Chopra Cannot Remain Indian Athletics’ One-Man Publicity Department

Farah Sheikh · 11 Nov 2026

Entertainment

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Pyre Finds More India in Two Old Faces Than Streaming Finds in a Thousand Algorithms

Ishita Banerjee · 12 Nov 2026

Ramayana’s Scale Is Impressive; Its Reverence Is Not a Substitute for Drama

Kabir Malhotra · 12 Nov 2026

Adolescence Is Not Really About Killer Children; It Is About Adults Who Stopped Looking

Ishita Banerjee · 11 Nov 2026

Technology

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Made in India Must Move Beyond Counting Finished Phones

Priya Nair · 12 Nov 2026

The Best Phone Feature in 2026 Is the One Still Working in 2029

Nikhil Bhatt · 12 Nov 2026

Make in India Has Mastered Phone Assembly; Components Are the Exam It Cannot Bluff

Priya Nair · 11 Nov 2026

Automobiles

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India’s EV Problem Is Not Range Anxiety; It Is Charger Truthfulness

Ritika Menon · 12 Nov 2026

The Toyota Hilux Is Brilliant at a Job Most Indian Buyers Do Not Have

Arjun Chawla · 12 Nov 2026

A Better Nexon EV Cannot Fix the Socket You Don’t Own

Ritika Menon · 11 Nov 2026

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Forty-Two Nagaland Villages Chose to Protect Pangolins—and Made Enforcement Look Almost Human

Ananya Ghosh · 12 Nov 2026

Nagaland’s Butterfly Sisters Did What Official Reports Rarely Manage: They Made Attention Contagious

Devansh Kapoor · 12 Nov 2026

Komic Is a Village, Not an Altitude Certificate for Tourists

Ananya Ghosh · 11 Nov 2026

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