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A $15 billion data centre in Vizag: So WHY this SECRECY ?

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

‘Guns may shoot, and knives may carve, but we won’t wear your silly scarves'

By Divya Trivedi. Tribute to Marjane Satrapi. Rebel, graphic artist, writer, filmmaker, a great human being.

An Israeli War Criminal gallivanting in Manali?

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

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.

A Disaster in the Making: Red Carpet for Hyper-scale Data Centres

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

Give One Hundred Flowers to the Cockroach Who Rebels!

By Amit Sengupta and Suresh Nautiyal. Give flowers to our brave young cockroaches.

Editor's Pick

Facebook, Apple, Neem Karoli Baba, and the devotion of a 'power couple'

By Shamya Dasgupta. So what's common between Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs, Virat Kohli, Anoushka Sharma?

the first taste of the first...

By Sreela Dasgupta in Santiniketan. Prologue of my song.

'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.

Politics

A $15 billion data centre in Vizag: So WHY this SECRECY ?

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

‘Guns may shoot, and knives may carve, but we won’t wear your silly scarves'

By Divya Trivedi. Tribute to Marjane Satrapi. Rebel, graphic artist, writer, filmmaker, a great human being.

A Disaster in the Making: Red Carpet for Hyper-scale Data Centres

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

History

‘In this clickbait-driven era, mainstream media has become spineless’

Interview: Binu Mathew, Editor, countercurrents.org : I think last year’s Nobel Peace Prize should have been awarded to the journalists of Gaza.

“Are you taking us to the police station?” Phooleshwari asked, jokingly

By Amit Sengupta /Bom/Sonebhadra. A revolution has already unfolded here. A peaceful, protracted, non-violent revolution. With fearless, resilient women as vanguard.

Live. Observe. Experience. Don’t dramatise. Draw.

By Suresh Nautiyal. To see the Himalaya today is not just to admire it. It is to recognise its fragility, its complexity, and our connection to it.

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Society

NOT ACCEPTABLE...

The demolition drive of the Gujjar Bakrwal community by the Jammu Administration is in absolute violation of Article 21 of the Constitution and Forest Rights Act 2006.

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.

Welcome to the 'Heat Islands'

By Dr Shiwani Pandey. Expand disaster management to include heatwaves as a primary hazard.

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A $15 billion data centre in Vizag: So WHY this SECRECY ?

NOT ACCEPTABLE...

‘Guns may shoot, and knives may carve, but we won’t wear your silly scarves'

Ground Report

To Rebel is To Be!

By Amit Sengupta. The sudden, radical rupture inflames the rain-soaked afternoon. The fire spreads in the eyes, and inside clenched fists. A mother holds her little child close to her heart, eyes blazing. A thin, wiry young woman in a red sari, becomes a fiery symbol of shakti – women’s power. A grandmother is so intense, that her entire history of angst and anger explodes.

Come, sit beside me by Arjun Janah

" The self impedes, where duty beckons most / So try to leave the self and all its weight / Behind. ..."

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A $15 billion data centre in Vizag: So WHY this SECRECY ?

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

NOT ACCEPTABLE...

The demolition drive of the Gujjar Bakrwal community by the Jammu Administration is in absolute violation of Article 21 of the Constitution and Forest Rights Act 2006.