Abhijit Joshi

Amid mounting economic pain, Maharashtra’s Opposition is losing the plot on price rise. As tensions between the United States and Iran roil energy markets, crude prices have surged, currencies have wobbled and inflationary tremors have spread across much of the developing world. India, heavily dependent on imported oil, finds itself exposed once again to the brutal arithmetic of global instability. The rupee is under strain. Petrol prices have breached the psychologically important Rs...

Few states have shaped India’s political imagination as profoundly as Maharashtra. From the freedom struggle to labour agitations, from anti-caste reform movements to modern coalition politics, the state has repeatedly generated ideas that altered the country’s political vocabulary. Among the communities that most decisively influenced this journey, the Scheduled Castes occupy a singular place. Yet for all their ideological depth, emotional solidarity and historic legacy, Scheduled Caste...

The rape and murder of a four-year-old girl has left Maharashtra grieving and demanding accountability from a system that failed to stop a known offender. She was only four years old. She was spending her summer holidays at her grandmother’s house in Nasrapur, a quiet village in the Bhor area of Pune district. She liked playing outside. On the afternoon of May 1, 2026, a 65-year-old man from the same village walked up to her and said he would show her a calf. She smiled and followed him. She...