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Outside the police station, this dawn, Ankita Bhandari felt like our sister too…
By Harish. At the Delhi protests with just enough Hindi to order tea. A protester from Chennai describes his day.
3 days ago7 min read


From the Magic of Wullar Lake, to the World Stage on Ecology
Documentary film Wullar Lake, the second largest freshwater lake in Asia, has been accepted in a prestigious initiative: in Canada.
3 days ago3 min read


Dragged, man-handled, detained: A woman journalist tells her story
By Astha Savyasachi. There was hostility, yes.
There was also solidarity. One did not cancel out the other.
4 days ago6 min read


Justice? Or, yet another Green Light to Modi and Gyanesh Kumar?
By NR Mohanty..Going by their recent track record, these judges will green light what the Executive want them to do!
4 days ago6 min read


An UPRISING of CONSCIENCE
By ACL Kalpana in Chennai. The right to dissent matters. The right to assemble peacefully matters. Your refusal to accept injustice as inevitable matters.
Oct 133 min read


Stop the CRACKDOWN on journalists reporting the peaceful protests: Press Club of India
Several journalists, including Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, reporters from The Quint, The Wire, Scroll, Reporter TV, Navbharat Times and Newslaundry were under detention. ‘
Oct 122 min read


‘We Burn Trash, You Burn Our Future... Under Our Text Books, Anger’
By Narendra Pachkhede in London. In India, protests began after the NEET paper leak. France’s lycée revolt asks a similar question from the other end. Schools.
Oct 89 min read


Will Modi-Shah let Gyanesh Kumar go?
By NR Mohanty. if Gyanesh Kumar goes, Modi’s entire edifice and the Lotus bandwagon, will come crashing down. Indeed, it’s a do-or-die battle for Modi.
Oct 66 min read


Amit Shah’s Police Manual: ‘Inhuman, Nasty, and Brutish’
So why drag Neha Bora and others with such savagery that her hands, forearms, neck, shoulders are full of wounds?
Oct 46 min read


No ‘next time’ for a stolen election
neither an Election Commissioner nor a judge owns Indian democracy. We, the People, do.
Oct 11 min read


Finally, 'Ringleader' GYANESH KUMAR IN THE DOCK. A TURNING POINT for India?
By Manan Kumar. Modi’s regime will collapse in a year, or he will impose an Emergency, said Rahul Gandhi.
Sep 256 min read


'Why should I hide, journalism is not a crime?' Women Journos Protest at the Press Club of India
"We are independent journalists," she said, "how will we earn and continue to work if accounts are suspended?"
Sep 234 min read


So What's the Big Secret?
Independent Ink Editorial: The secrecy surrounding the fund and its contributors is puzzling. If the money it receives is being used for public relief, why is there a need for secrecy?
Sep 224 min read


'Europe belongs to Picasso, Matisse, Braque…. India belongs only to me' : Mira Nair's Amrita Sher-Gil
She arrived like a comet, changed what Indian art could be, and died at the age of 28 before the world had fully understood what it had lost.
Sep 218 min read


SIR, victimhood, and the imaginary woes of a WhatsApp group
It's a no-brainer: without voting rights, there is no citizenship.
Sep 187 min read


Parole, Furlough, and a Full Page ‘Ad’ as Icing on the Cake: So How Sacha Is This Sauda?
By Suresh Nautiyal. He has reportedly been released 17 times since 2020. His latest release, in August 2026, is a 21-day furlough; earlier he has been out of prison for roughly 435 days.
Sep 157 min read


Eiffel Tower, Paris: Women staffers asked to remain ‘invisible’, hide in the back rooms. Why?
By Rajiv Shah. The Eiffel Tower was forced to close for the day after its staff staged a walkout and strike, in protest.
Sep 126 min read


GO BACK, AFGHAN medical students in Pakistan told. WILL INDIA HELP?
India has an opportunity to demonstrate once again that education can be a bridge between nations and a powerful instrument of humanitarian solidarity.
Sep 113 min read


Pakistan’s Shame: Expulsion of Afghan Medical Students and Moral Bankruptcy of the Army Generals
By Murtaza Shibli. The image of a 24-hour eviction notice handed to final-year Afghan medical students will haunt Pakistan’s reputation for years.
Sep 116 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.
Aug 314 min read
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