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Farida's dream
By Amit Sengupta. With her tenacity and idealism, Farida has achieved the impossible.
3 days ago7 min read


Dropping a potential bestseller: Fear of the Establishment?
By Meher Pestonji. Three paragraphs are reportedly at the root of PRHI asking Sonia Gandhi to delete or edit sections which she has refused to do.
4 days ago4 min read


Nepal Floods: ‘There’s nothing left, she said simply. ‘Most of the people are gone...’
By Arjun Paudel. A 'Kathmandu Post' journalist witnessed his childhood village disappear, and with it all his loved ones, through fragments of video and phone calls that stopped connecting.
6 days ago6 min read


‘Heartbreak and Loss Threw Me Into Politics’: Sonia Gandhi Breaks a Lifetime of Silence With a 544-Page Memoir
Rajiv Gandhi entered politics, over Sonia Gandhi’s fierce objections. “For the first time, there was tension between Rajiv and me. I fought like a tigress — for him, for us and our children, above all, for our freedom.” American Kahani News Desk On Tuesday, August 18, 2026, Alfred A. Knopf — one of the most prestigious literary imprints in American publishing, an arm of Penguin Random House — made an announcement that sent an immediate ripple through Indian political and lite
7 days ago7 min read


ISRO: Privatization triggers an unprecedented exodus
By Ranjit Bhushan. Over 100 scientists and engineers have quit the country’s prestigious national space agency, ISRO.
Aug 277 min read


The Age of Innocence
By Ratna Raman. This is a book that Indian children must be asked to read, since it captures growing up in a large family in the countryside with friends and community, in an age of innocence; unheard of in the modern nuclear families in the cities and circumstances in which we currently live.
Aug 274 min read


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…”
Aug 164 min read


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.
Aug 75 min read


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.
Aug 64 min read


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.
Jul 315 min read


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.
Jul 253 min read


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.
Jul 2410 min read


This Gen Z will not go down so easily
Independent Ink Editorial: Those who perpetrated the atrocities on June 20, 2026, especially those who sexually assaulted the women protesters, must be severely and immediately punished under law
Jul 234 min read


Pakeezah, Zeenat, Asmat, Shaziya, Shobiya…
By Amit Sengupta. Kashmir Diary. Kashmir Diary 2: The future of the world is in this room
Jul 125 min read


Which way is up?
By Uttara Shidore. What M.C. Escher taught me about autism and parenting.
Jul 124 min read


An 11-year-old girl, a birthday gift, 10 CCTV clips, one pair of shoes, and a marshy swamp
By Antara Swarnakar. Ordinary folks investigate a child’s rape and murder, while the police drag their feet.
Jul 119 min read


Satluj is becoming a cult classic
By Divya Trivedi. People are taking projectors into villages across Punjab and organising screenings.
Jul 105 min read


The Man without a CV, and the Man with a Charge Sheet of History
By Narendra Pachkhede in London. The Man without a CV.
Jul 57 min read


The Dancing Girl
By Anuradha Bhasin. Pink dress or digital garbs, she stands as she is – with her naked truth...
Jul 36 min read


So why did her tennis racket showcase the Water Melon?
Role model of the day: If the Ukrainian flag is allowed, why not the flag of Palestine?
Jul 31 min read
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