By Ajith Pillai. Do we really require data centres, even as protests against them have erupted in Europe and Latin America?

Said Arundhati Roy: ‘It is a way of shutting down a conversation about a crime against humanity even as it unfolds before us in real time—when artists, writers and filmmakers should be doing everything in their power to stop it.’

By Aditya Nigam. From Hitler and Mussolini, to Epstein and Trump, to Modi, Mossad/Israel and Ambani, to to the hate politics of RSS, the ongoing story...

By Aditya Nigam. The whole world is laughing at them.

By Anuradha Bhasin. Epstein’s world is not an aberration. He weaved a world of financial crimes and sex-trafficking ...

By Binu Mathew. The death of ten-month-old Aalin Sherin Abraham in a road accident in Kerala is a tragedy that words cannot hold.

By Ganpy Nataraj. t’s everywhere this time of year — on chocolates, on cards, on candy, on text messages sent with varying degrees of regret. The Red Heart.

Photo feature by Amit Sengupta. If life is a play, play on...

By Raju Mansukhani. Vibrant colours, creative energy and pulsating hues of Bharat Rang Mahotsav 2026 at NSD and Mandi House in Delhi: Don’t miss it.

Singapore Diary 1. Singapore speaks in measured tones. Debate exists within boundaries; elections occur without the feverish volatility of a civilisation-sized contest. Governance resembles engineering — precise, anticipatory, long-horizon.

“These assertions collectively erase the existence of Bengali Muslims who are lawful Indian citizens and long-standing residents of the State,” the statement said.

By Meher Pestonji. 'The Weight of Longing' (Iktsuarpok) received the Special Jury Award for Best Debut Director at the recently concluded 22nd Third Eye Asian Film Festival in Mumbai.

By Suresh Nautiyal. I am an Indian and everyone is equal before the law. I would not consider myself a human being if I did not protect the old man.”

By Vikram Zutshi. There is something almost surreal about reading a luxury fashion writer describe her sequined Manish Malhotra sari paired with Cartier jewellery, and then shifting into commentary about anti-immigration marches.

By Aditya Anurag Roy in Srinagar. Cement factories have turned the sublime saffron fields into a condemned wasteland. .

By Yadukrishna C S in Palakkad/Kerala. With even the famous Kerala monsoon unable to create ground water, the traditional Palakkad Red Matta rice is falling prey to the vagaries of the weather.

EDITORIAL: independentink.in Later in the evening, a message was conveyed to Naravane from the Prime Minister: “Jo uchit samjho, woh karo. (Do whatever you deem fit).”

By Bidhi Adhikari in Kathmandu. In GenZ terms, Arundhati Roy is a woman’s woman.

By Narendra Pachkhédé in Toronto. What happens to a society when brutal force is displayed with this kind of confidence, arrogance and impunity?

Alaa's diary is an act of resistance. By Aayushi Rana What remains when everything vanishes? A shadow? A voice in the dark? The echo of footsteps on stones that remember? In Ibtisam Azem's The Book of Disappearance , long listed for Booker Prize for Literature in 2025 , all Palestinians living in their original homeland occupied by Israel, vanish overnight . Gone. The streets of Jaffa in the West Bank fall silent like after a storm has passed by.. Empty homes,