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Does the PM care?
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?
16 hours ago4 min read
Why something is so rotten about so many of our schools...
By Anuradha Bhasin. Over one lakh schools nationwide are run by a single teacher.
5 days ago4 min read
The Violence of Humiliation
By Suresh Nautiyal. It's a deliberate attack on a woman's autonomy, dignity and self-respect.
Aug 286 min read
Fear, surveillance and do it or else! The Making of Independence Day in Kashmir
The emphasis, a teacher adds, is more on collecting evidence of celebration than the actual celebration.
Aug 218 min read
‘I claim Tagore and Iqbal, Lata Mangeshkar and Mehdi Hassan, Mohenjo-daro and Taxila’
By Pervez Akhtar Khan, retired Air Commodore of the Pakistan Air Force. Patriotism does not mean hate another country.
Aug 205 min read
‘You are not alone’: How Indians Across America Rallied for the Cockroaches, in a Divided Diaspora
A community that was identified with Modi’s project was, in significant numbers, now standing against it.
Aug 198 min read
The Fractured Lens: A Kashmiri Student's Unfinished Theory
By Mubashir Maqbool. A dangerous, beautiful thought bloomed in his chest:
Aug 95 min read
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.
Aug 65 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
Why are journalists being booed in public places?
Why a big section of mainstream media in India, especially, TV, has lost all credibility.
Jul 305 min read
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.
Jul 274 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
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
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
Aha! Vozinha!
By MJ Vijayan. They dared to challenge the champions and almost got them down on their knees!
Jul 75 min read
Predators, Perverts, Paedophiles: And all that Sleaze on Social Media
By Ajith Pillai in Chennai. Targeting children. Two recent verdicts in New Mexico and Los Angeles exposes the sleazy side of social media:
Jul 67 min read
So where do I truly belong?
By Dr Aditi Parimoo. So where are you from?
Jun 215 min read
The ‘Good Bahu’ Checklist vs The LinkedIn Bio
The Generation in the Middle: The pressure arrives in waves. First, it is the well-meaning aunt at a wedding. Then it is a forwarded article in the family WhatsApp group. Then it is a reel on Instagram, featuring a 29-year-old woman tearfully describing how she "waited too long". Independent Ink Feature Service There is a particular kind of exhaustion that has nothing to do with sleep deprivation, though millennial women are certainly familiar with that too. It is the exhaust
Jun 204 min read
The Leaks. The Scandal. The Botch-up. The students' protests. Every image tells a story...
Images of the week: NEET leaks. CBSE scandal. CUET botch-up. The massive protests. Etc.
Jun 131 min read
Welcome to the 'Heat Islands'
By Dr Shiwani Pandey. Expand disaster management to include heatwaves as a primary hazard.
Jun 137 min read
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