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When the Press card offered no protection: women and queer journalists on the protest frontline
Keep filming and reporting or stay safe: the choice that women and queer journalists had to weigh under the watch of an aggressive, unfriendly, and often violent police presence. By Sameeksha Sharma in Delhi How do you report from a protest when some 38,000 paramilitary personnel and police have been deployed to crush it? For women and LGBTQ+ journalists, the question is more pointed: how do you hold your ground when doing your job means risking arrest, intimidation, abuse
4 days ago6 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
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


Barbie doll, candy and fluff: All this stuff, no, it won’t work now
By Anuradha Bhasin. The cockroaches are not buying into the PM’s illusory tactics.
Jul 277 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
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