By Ajith Pillai. When a government or corporate entity opts for opacity and secrecy rather than transparency, it often indicates that it has much to conceal. The $15 billion Adani-Google hyper-scale project in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, exemplifies this. From the beginning, there has been a noticeable reluctance to share information with the citizens of this Tier 2 port city, who will be the most affected by the mega project. By all accounts, it was a covertly concei

By Divya Trivedi. Tribute to Marjane Satrapi. Rebel, graphic artist, writer, filmmaker, a great human being.

By Ajith Pillai in Chennai. So why are global tech billionaires zeroing in on Visakhapatnam?

Amit Sengupta in conversation with Priyamvada Gopal, Cambridge University.

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“The people resisting mining in the Sijimali Hills are not criminals,” a representative of the Human Rights Forum said. “They are cultivators, forest dwellers, labourers, women and youth seeking to protect their land, forests, water sources and constitutional rights.”

Editorial/independentink.in So don’t forget the rigged elections, the NEET question paper leak for the umpteenth time, the suicides of young aspirants, the soaring inflation, and the rising unemployment.

By Dr Soumya Sahin. Across loyalist TV studios and social media, demolitions are celebrated as instant justice.

By Shubham Arya. Why Keralam is on the dot.

By Seema Mustafa. Trump falls in a quagmire.

By Dr Vishvaja Sambath. West Asia Crisis: Let us ask the hard question: Why are we still subsidising the very vulnerabilities that are strangling us?

By NR Mohanty. The writing on the wall is clear: our so-called ‘legacy’ media is beyond salvation!

By Amit Sengupta/Saharanpur. How dare they enter the home of a woman, when she is alone with her teenage 14-year-old daughter, assault her and physically harm her

By Ganpy Nataraj. India’s women, and India’s states, deserve better than that.

By Rahul. SIR data show that over 53% of the deletions were women.

By Aditya Nigam. Will West Bengal be the Waterloo of the West India Company?

Women workers, who have played a leading role in these protests, have been brutally beaten by male police personnel in places like Manesar and Noida, and several have been detained and arrested.

Cryptic Comment by Seema Mustafa. For the bad guys, all news is bad news.

By Seema Mustafa. Trump is in a catch-22 situation.

By Jeff Berg. How do we keep this casino from shutting off the lights?