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Meenal Baghel

Meenal Baghel

Articles by Meenal Baghel

Top cops who fought Mumbai’s underworld chronicle its history

Top cops who fought Mumbai’s underworld chronicle its history

Updated on May 30, 2026 22:36 IST

How Bombay’s elite built an institution that broke the Raj’s glass ceiling

A century of care: How Bombay’s elite built an institution that broke the Raj’s glass ceiling

Updated on May 3, 2026 24:49 IST

Identity fault lines, growth goals shape battle for India’s richest civic body

Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray and Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray during a joint rally ahead of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) election, in Mumbai. (PTI)

Updated on Jan 13, 2026 08:56 IST

Meenal Baghel picks her favourite reads of 2025

Erik Larson’s In the Garden of Beasts (Crown Pub)

Updated on Dec 26, 2025 12:01 IST

Very cautiously, Chanda Kochhar steps back into limelight

Chanda Kochhar (Anshuman Poyrekar/HT Photo)

Updated on Feb 24, 2025 01:20 IST

Meenal Baghel picks her favourite read of 2024

Exploring theology, stoicism, the paintings of El Greco, and Vaclav Havel’s credo of “living in truth” to find solace. (Metropolitan Books)

Updated on Dec 27, 2024 10:08 IST

In Maharashtra, a tale of two coalitions

These results will also likely accelerate the decline of the two regional parties that have long dominated politics in Maharashtra (Deepak Salvi)

Updated on Nov 23, 2024 23:40 IST

Bishnoi spectre in Mumbai and some questions

Policemen escort Lawrence Bishnoi in New Delhi in April 2023. (Reuters)

Updated on Oct 18, 2024 17:11 IST

HT Explains: A 5-point FAQ on the Lok Sabha battle in Maharashtra

Prime Minister Narendra Modi campaigning in Mumbai (Bloomberg)

Updated on May 17, 2024 11:51 IST

Election in Pincodes: Pawar power tussle plays out in family bastion of Baramati

Election in Pincodes: Pawar power tussle plays out in family bastion of Baramati

Updated on Apr 30, 2024 02:42 IST

HT interview | ‘INDIA bloc must stick together after June 4,’ says Sharad Pawar

Nationalist Congress Party (SP) president Sharad Pawar.

Updated on Apr 26, 2024 04:00 IST

Meenal Baghel picks her favourite reads of 2023

Of old masters and modern greats (Thames and Hudson)

Updated on Dec 29, 2023 12:08 IST

‘I have no problems with Ajit dada or Sharad Pawar, only with Uddhav’s back-stabbing’

“Shiv Sena will never merge with the BJP, it will remain independent. We have no interest in killing that party. You need all kinds of parties to accommodate the voter base,” said Devendra Fadnavis, in an interview with Hindustan Times. (Anshuman Poyrekar/ HT Photo)

Updated on Jun 29, 2023 19:32 IST

In Maha puzzle, Pawar may hold the answers

Sharad Pawar's recently-released autobiography, Lok Maze Sangati.

Updated on May 11, 2023 13:53 IST

Painter and his vanishing muse

Sudhir Patwardhan displaying his sketch work in a group show at the Guild Mumbai. (HT PHOTO)

Updated on Oct 16, 2022 12:12 IST

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