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.

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.

So why drag Neha Bora and others with such savagery that her hands, forearms, neck, shoulders are full of wounds?

By Ajith Pillai. Scrap Sir. Gyanesh Kumar and his masters must face the consequences.

"We saw that clearly with CJP, where reels, memes, satire and first-person footage became part of the political event itself."

neither an Election Commissioner nor a judge owns Indian democracy. We, the People, do.

By Laasya Nandula.

By NR Mohanty. It’s not enough if the CEC is punished; it’s time some top judges are made accountable for their brazen acts of omission and commission.

By Manan Kumar. Modi’s regime will collapse in a year, or he will impose an Emergency, said Rahul Gandhi.

"We are independent journalists," she said, "how will we earn and continue to work if accounts are suspended?"

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?

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.

It's a no-brainer: without voting rights, there is no citizenship.

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.

By Rajiv Shah. The Eiffel Tower was forced to close for the day after its staff staged a walkout and strike, in protest.

India has an opportunity to demonstrate once again that education can be a bridge between nations and a powerful instrument of humanitarian solidarity.

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.

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.

By Ratna Raman. This is a book that Indian children must be asked to read, since it captures growing up in a large family in the countryside with friends and community, in an age of innocence; unheard of in the modern nuclear families in the cities and circumstances in which we currently live.

“Go anywhere and take a photo, but not here in front of Bhagat Singh’s statue…”