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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.


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.


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.


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!


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.


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. ‘


‘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.


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.


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?


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


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.


'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?"


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?


'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.


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


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.
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