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This is why our school children are protesting...
Photo Story: Why are children from poor families deliberately denied the right to education.
Odyssey: The desire to return...
By Narendra Pachkhede. Odysseus must leave home once more. He must carry the instrument of his voyage beyond the reach of the story that made him heroic, into a country where his name, his ordeals and the sea itself possess no authority.
GROUP PHOTOGRAPH next to a BHAGAT SINGH statue?: NOT ALLOWED!
“Go anywhere and take a photo, but not here in front of Bhagat Singh’s statue…”
The Fractured Lens: A Kashmiri Student's Unfinished Theory
By Mubashir Maqbool. A dangerous, beautiful thought bloomed in his chest:
'We will write our future with this ink'
By Shahnawaz Akhtar in Ranchi. The Ranchi ‘ink attack’ highlights a historical pattern of targeting women leaders —from Savitribai Phule to Aruna Roy
Here’s an idea: MAKE MORE REELS
By Narendra Pachkede in London. Yes, make more reels. Pass it from one phone to another, one campus to another, one language to another.
Editor's Pick
The M Fort: The young have knocked off the front door
By Subrat Kumar Sahu. The youth have not only knocked on the front door of the Modi fort, they have knocked it off.
Why are journalists being booed in public places?
Why a big section of mainstream media in India, especially, TV, has lost all credibility.
The Cost of 'Non-Lethal': Kashmir's Pellet Gun Legacy, and Its Return to Delhi's Streets
At least four people were in Delhi hospitals with wounds their doctors have linked to pellet-firing shotguns, a ‘dangerous’ weapon whose use against civilians outside Jammu and Kashmir is unprecedented.
Politics
GROUP PHOTOGRAPH next to a BHAGAT SINGH statue?: NOT ALLOWED!
“Go anywhere and take a photo, but not here in front of Bhagat Singh’s statue…”
The M Fort: The young have knocked off the front door
By Subrat Kumar Sahu. The youth have not only knocked on the front door of the Modi fort, they have knocked it off.
'We will write our future with this ink'
By Shahnawaz Akhtar in Ranchi. The Ranchi ‘ink attack’ highlights a historical pattern of targeting women leaders —from Savitribai Phule to Aruna Roy
History
This is not a love song...
By Ganpy Nataraj. Kya kamaal hain: a world where no one is angry, no one is unfaithful, no one is separated, no one is ever lost again, where every sorrow shrinks smaller than the smallest flower and the coins of grief turn out to be counterfeit, refusing to pass from hand to hand.
At midnight, lane number 83, nostalgia arrives with a song
By Ramsharan Joshi..
And who could forget the talented beauties of Bollywood? The versatile, great, incredibly popular actresses?
Haldighati: 450 Years of the Battle
Photo Feature: 450 years of Haldi Ghati. The battle led by Maharana Pratap Singh.
Society
This is why our school children are protesting...
Photo Story: Why are children from poor families deliberately denied the right to education.
The Fractured Lens: A Kashmiri Student's Unfinished Theory
By Mubashir Maqbool. A dangerous, beautiful thought bloomed in his chest:
How they used Clever Cutting-Edge Tech to break Jammed Internet, Stay Connected
By Jayashree Srikant. How GenZ subverted the Internet blockade using high-tech stuff on their digital devices.
Ground Report
To Rebel is To Be!
By Amit Sengupta. The sudden, radical rupture inflames the rain-soaked afternoon. The fire spreads in the eyes, and inside clenched fists. A mother holds her little child close to her heart, eyes blazing. A thin, wiry young woman in a red sari, becomes a fiery symbol of shakti – women’s power. A grandmother is so intense, that her entire history of angst and anger explodes.
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This is why our school children are protesting...
Photo Story: Why are children from poor families deliberately denied the right to education.
Odyssey: The desire to return...
By Narendra Pachkhede. Odysseus must leave home once more. He must carry the instrument of his voyage beyond the reach of the story that made him heroic, into a country where his name, his ordeals and the sea itself possess no authority.
GROUP PHOTOGRAPH next to a BHAGAT SINGH statue?: NOT ALLOWED!
“Go anywhere and take a photo, but not here in front of Bhagat Singh’s statue…”
The M Fort: The young have knocked off the front door
By Subrat Kumar Sahu. The youth have not only knocked on the front door of the Modi fort, they have knocked it off.
The Fractured Lens: A Kashmiri Student's Unfinished Theory
By Mubashir Maqbool. A dangerous, beautiful thought bloomed in his chest:
'We will write our future with this ink'
By Shahnawaz Akhtar in Ranchi. The Ranchi ‘ink attack’ highlights a historical pattern of targeting women leaders —from Savitribai Phule to Aruna Roy
Here’s an idea: MAKE MORE REELS
By Narendra Pachkede in London. Yes, make more reels. Pass it from one phone to another, one campus to another, one language to another.
How they used Clever Cutting-Edge Tech to break Jammed Internet, Stay Connected
By Jayashree Srikant. How GenZ subverted the Internet blockade using high-tech stuff on their digital devices.
This is not a love song...
By Ganpy Nataraj. Kya kamaal hain: a world where no one is angry, no one is unfaithful, no one is separated, no one is ever lost again, where every sorrow shrinks smaller than the smallest flower and the coins of grief turn out to be counterfeit, refusing to pass from hand to hand.
It’s Time the Young Reclaim Indian Democracy!
By NR Mohanty. The youth must rise against this corrupt and authoritarian regime, and help restore a liberal-democratic government.
Why are journalists being booed in public places?
Why a big section of mainstream media in India, especially, TV, has lost all credibility.
An Open Letter from Concerned Citizens to the Police and Security Forces at Jantar Mantar, Delhi on July 20, 2026
We write this letter to you making a demand on your heart and your conscience.
This generation does not see fun and resistance as opposites
By Divya Trivedi. Our job is not to tell the next generation how to fight and resist. It is to stand beside them. Or get out of the way.
Barbie doll, candy and fluff: All this stuff, no, it won’t work now
By Anuradha Bhasin. The cockroaches are not buying into the PM’s illusory tactics.
The Instagram generation knows its mind
By Aditya Nigam. Much of the initial response to the movement, was based on prejudice, completely devoid of any factual basis.
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