Weekend Reading: 18 May 2025

As Project Cheetah Eyes Expansion Across States, Kuno National Park Becomes A Guiding Light

Less than a year after cheetahs were reintroduced to India in September 2022, media outlets started writing obituaries of Project Cheetah, calling it a 'colossal failure', Project Cheetah becoming 'toothless' and whatnot.

It was because, of a total of 20 cheetahs introduced in Kuno National Park (NP) of Madhya Pradesh (MP), eight from Namibia in September 2022, followed by 12 more from South Africa in February 2023, nine had died in a year.

A few critics went ahead to criticise Prime Minister Narendra Modi because he was the one who introduced cheetahs first on his 72nd birthday and is believed to be steering Project Cheetah.

However, soon, the critics were proven wrong. From a low of 15 cheetahs in Kuno in August 2023, the cheetah numbers have more than doubled today.

Why The Future Of Carnatic Music May Lie Outside Chennai

The insular approach of the city may not be doing any good to the growth of South Indian classical music and time may have come to branch out and involve other cities like Bengaluru and Hyderabad.

Assam Panchayat Polls Dash Three Gogoi Alliance, Himanta Biswa Sarma Appears Set For 2026

Jorhat was supposed to be the beginning of a comeback story. Congress's surprise victory in the Hindu-majority constituency during the 2024 Lok Sabha elections had opposition leaders speaking optimistically about cracking the BJP's dominance in rural Assam.

A year later, the Panchayat election results tell a starkly different tale.