By Shahnawaz Akhtar in Ranchi. The Ranchi ‘ink attack’ highlights a historical pattern of targeting women leaders —from Savitribai Phule to Aruna Roy

By Narendra Pachkede in London. Yes, make more reels. Pass it from one phone to another, one campus to another, one language to another.

By NR Mohanty. The youth must rise against this corrupt and authoritarian regime, and help restore a liberal-democratic government.

By Anuradha Bhasin. The cockroaches are not buying into the PM’s illusory tactics.

Independent Ink Editorial: Those who perpetrated the atrocities on June 20, 2026, especially those who sexually assaulted the women protesters, must be severely and immediately punished under law

So why does this regime hate Gen Z with such perverse intensity? What was their crime? Stark injustice stalks India!

By NR Mohanty. The video evidence presented by the SIT shows that vehicles loaded with cash, gold and silver offerings have left the Ram Temple premises at least 70 times during a 45-day window.

By Divya Trivedi. People are taking projectors into villages across Punjab and organising screenings.

By Narendra Pachkhede in London. The Man without a CV.

By MJ Vijayan. What is the most striking question the FIFA World Cup throws at us today?

By NR Mohanty. Iran-US deal. Our leaders should hang their heads in shame for being bystanders in the entire process!

By Ajith Pillai. Data Centres: The citizens of Visakhapatnam deserve to be in the driver’s seat.

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

Amit Sengupta in conversation with Priyamvada Gopal, Cambridge University.

Independent Ink News Desk: “Eitan Gilboa's actions... meet the legal definition of war crimes under Indian law..."

“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.