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Off-the-record arrests: Mystery of the 24-hour deadline!
By Naren Singh Rao. Constitution requires that those arrested be brought before a magistrate within 24 hours, but unrecorded detention can evade that safeguard
Discovery of India: A Precious Visual History
By Raju Mansukhani, Early Photography and Archaeology in Western India: The Udaipur Chapter: A rare collection of 19th century photographs of Western India and the visual history of Mewar is on display in an incredible show in Udaipur.
Ouster, Prosecution, Arrest, Punishment: The Ball is Set to Roll for Gyanesh Kumar
By NR Mohanty. India will see massive Jantar Mantar and Ramlila Maidan protests if the CEC and his patrons are not ousted and held accountable through a revamped legal process.
‘Detention centres in Delhi remind me of Nazi times’
By Anuradha Bhasin. The grammar of police brutalities in Delhi is reminiscent of Kashmir’s interrogation centres.
Sing it loud and strong comrades. Let the world hear it!
By Amit Sengupta. El pueblo unido jamás será vencido! The people united will never be defeated…
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.
Editor's Pick
BJP’s embrace. For Chandrababu Naidu, is it worth THE RISK?
By Ajith Pillai. The lure of power may make such a partnership with the BJP tempting. But the potential dangers have never been starker
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
Nana Patekar, 1951–2026: The Fire That Burned Through Bollywood for Five Decades
Indian cinema cannot replace him. It will remember him.
As a great actor. And an outstanding human being.
Politics
Ouster, Prosecution, Arrest, Punishment: The Ball is Set to Roll for Gyanesh Kumar
By NR Mohanty. India will see massive Jantar Mantar and Ramlila Maidan protests if the CEC and his patrons are not ousted and held accountable through a revamped legal process.
BJP’s embrace. For Chandrababu Naidu, is it worth THE RISK?
By Ajith Pillai. The lure of power may make such a partnership with the BJP tempting. But the potential dangers have never been starker
‘Detention centres in Delhi remind me of Nazi times’
By Anuradha Bhasin. The grammar of police brutalities in Delhi is reminiscent of Kashmir’s interrogation centres.
History
Discovery of India: A Precious Visual History
By Raju Mansukhani, Early Photography and Archaeology in Western India: The Udaipur Chapter: A rare collection of 19th century photographs of Western India and the visual history of Mewar is on display in an incredible show in Udaipur.
When History No Longer Requires Us
"We saw that clearly with CJP, where reels, memes, satire and first-person footage became part of the political event itself."
This book found me in London. When I finally reached for it, something shifted
Amit Sengupta’s A Sudden Golden Smile enters with the tempered force of early spring,
Society
If Mishti Doi is a delicious sweet dish, why has Bengal missed it all?
By Sudipta Biswas. Despite the state's insatiable consumption of its delicious variety of sweets, West Bengal fares poor in the dairy sector.
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
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.
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.
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Off-the-record arrests: Mystery of the 24-hour deadline!
By Naren Singh Rao. Constitution requires that those arrested be brought before a magistrate within 24 hours, but unrecorded detention can evade that safeguard
Discovery of India: A Precious Visual History
By Raju Mansukhani, Early Photography and Archaeology in Western India: The Udaipur Chapter: A rare collection of 19th century photographs of Western India and the visual history of Mewar is on display in an incredible show in Udaipur.
If Mishti Doi is a delicious sweet dish, why has Bengal missed it all?
By Sudipta Biswas. Despite the state's insatiable consumption of its delicious variety of sweets, West Bengal fares poor in the dairy sector.
Ouster, Prosecution, Arrest, Punishment: The Ball is Set to Roll for Gyanesh Kumar
By NR Mohanty. India will see massive Jantar Mantar and Ramlila Maidan protests if the CEC and his patrons are not ousted and held accountable through a revamped legal process.
BJP’s embrace. For Chandrababu Naidu, is it worth THE RISK?
By Ajith Pillai. The lure of power may make such a partnership with the BJP tempting. But the potential dangers have never been starker
‘Detention centres in Delhi remind me of Nazi times’
By Anuradha Bhasin. The grammar of police brutalities in Delhi is reminiscent of Kashmir’s interrogation centres.
Sing it loud and strong comrades. Let the world hear it!
By Amit Sengupta. El pueblo unido jamás será vencido! The people united will never be defeated…
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
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.
Just at this moment in history, it would appear, it is India’s turn
By Ranjit Bhushan, How does this brutality and coercion square up with Amartya Sen’s vision where he defines democracy not just as the act of voting, but as the ongoing exercise of "public reasoning"...
Nana Patekar, 1951–2026: The Fire That Burned Through Bollywood for Five Decades
Indian cinema cannot replace him. It will remember him.
As a great actor. And an outstanding human being.
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.
Punish the Thief who Stole from the Vault of Democracy!
By Ajith Pillai. Scrap Sir. Gyanesh Kumar and his masters must face the consequences.
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