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Listen to this article: We live in a country where rape conviction rates remain stubbornly low. In 2023, the conviction rate for rapes was recorded at...
Listen to this article: Chandigarh: For most Punjabis born after Independence – and certainly for anyone under the age of 60 today – Partition is...
Listen to this article: The cancellation of an initiative by Reclaim the Night Women Trans Queer United on August 14, 2026, in Kolkata raises...
Listen to this article: In an open letter addressed to Thiruvananthapuram Mayor V. V. Rajesh, George Abraham urges him to reflect on religious freedom...
Listen to this article: New Delhi: Bangladesh on Sunday (August 16) signalled that Prime Minister Tarique Rahman’s proposed visit to India this...
Listen to this article: New Delhi: Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah, at an Independence Day event on Saturday (August 15), said people...
Listen to this article: Having pledged her troth to one of the species, my spouse has scant respect for bureaucrats in general, a measured judgement...
Listen to this article: New Delhi: An audit of passenger amenities and sanitation by the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India has revealed...
Listen to this article: New Delhi: Two weeks after a 24-year-old Muslim man was brutally thrashed, allegedly by a group of kanwariyas, following a...
Listen to this article: We were both Professor Sumit Sarkar’s students at Delhi University in the 1990s, and are now teachers there. At his...
Listen to this article: English speaking cultural icons in India have always made a lot more money than those who can’t. Their self assured regal...
Listen to this article: When Shirsho Bandyopadhyay’s cover story Beneputul on the male queens of the Bengali folk jatra performance world came out...
Listen to this article: There are poems we inherit the way we inherit family recipes or old shawls folded into cedar trunks. They arrive wrapped in...
Listen to this article: New Delhi: While the parliament has passed the Taxation and Other Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2026, in the recently-concluded...
Listen to this article: Addressing the nation on Independence Day in 2019, from the ramparts of New Delhi’s Red Fort, Prime Minister Narendra Modi...
Listen to this article: The prime minister’s speech from the ramparts of the iconic Red Fort built by the Mughals was shorter than his earlier...
Listen to this article: Whether you approve or strenuously disagree, we’ve had plentiful coverage of last month’s student protest. We have a clear...
Listen to this article: New Delhi: Bangladesh Prime Minister Tarique Rahman’s proposed visit to India this month remains under negotiation, with no...
Listen to this article: A.R. Rahman has been trusted to do the heavy lifting in the climaxes of his recent films. The wailing vocals at the end of...
The following is the speech Professor Zoya Hasan, Professor Emerita, Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, was scheduled to...
Listen to this article: Aligarh: On August 12, 2026, historian Irfan Habib turned 95. As a distinguished figure in Indian historiography, Habib has...
Listen to this article: New Delhi: In his first remarks after youth protests in Delhi’s Jantar Mantar that spread across the country and forced...
Listen to this article: In the years leading up to the Emergency, the “miracle” democracy and its newly minted citizens came to realise that...
Listen to this article: New Delhi: Amid immigration policy changes, the number of Indian students in the US has dropped to a 29-month low, after...
Listen to this article: It was the 13th time this morning that Narendra Modi occupied the Red Fort pulpit. But it was perhaps the first time that he...
Listen to this article: Stale food stinks. Swinging between the two pet themes of “2014 se pahle (Before 2024)” and “2047 mein Viksit Bharat...
Listen to this article: New Delhi: More than 100 activists, writers, filmmakers, journalists and academics have written to Chief Justice of India...
Listen to this article: New Delhi: The graduating students of India’s first law university, the National Law School of India University or NLSIU,...
Listen to this article: Imagine you and your neighbour buy the same groceries, from the same supermarket, on the same day, but you pay more. The...
New Delhi: On August 14, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) professor emerita Zoya Hasan scheduled address on “Why Pluralism Matters” at Sardar...
Listen to this article: In March 1929, communist organisers and trade unionists were arrested across India and charged in what became the Meerut...
Listen to this article: The recent NEET protests in July 2026 highlighted the use of women as focal points in public conflict. The incident involved...
Listen to this article: Few constitutional questions have generated as much public debate in recent years as the prospect of the next delimitation...
Listen to this article: New Delhi: The Great Nicobar island – which will lose 130 square kilometers of rainforest to upcoming controversial...
Listen to this article: Over the past decade, despite prolonged litigation, the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET-UG), the world’s...
Listen to this article: The Special Intensive Revision (SIR), the Election Commission of India’s (ECI) mechanism for verifying electoral rolls, is...
Listen to this article: In June this year, Karwan e Mohabbat organised a festival in Hyderabad called Rehmat, to celebrate radical love and courageous...
Listen to this article: The Indian Air Force (IAF)’s Request for Proposal (RfP) for 60 Medium Transport Aircraft (MTA), estimated at around Rs 1...
On September 7, 1964, American television screens flickered with an innocent vignette that instantly crystallised the supreme horror of the modern...
New Delhi: August 11 marked Umar Khalid’s 39th birthday, which is taking place nearly six years into his incarceration. On the same day, speakers...
Listen to this article: New Delhi: The Jawaharlal Nehru University Teachers’ Association (JNUTA) and Jawaharlal Nehru University Students’ Union...
Listen to this article: Care is fundamental to how societies function, but the work of providing it is seldom shared equally. Children need to be...
Listen to this article: Every August 15, the prime minister of India stands before the Red Fort in Delhi and speaks to a nation that is at once...
Listen to this article: New Delhi: On Friday (August 14), two realities unfolded right before the Independence Day, when the doorbell of Jawaharlal...
Listen to this article: With Tata Sons Chairman N. Chandrasekaran stepping down as the Tata Group’s top executive, a question is growing louder in...
Listen to this article: In the aftermath of the nationwide protest by the youth, especially after July 20, the Modi government has become ever more...
Listen to this article: A huge gathering of students of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) assembled in the open space in the vicinity of the...
Listen to this article: The following speech was delivered on August 1 in Mumbai, by Justice Abhay S. Oka, former judge of the Supreme Court, as part...
Listen to this article: Mangaluru: At around 5 am on August 8, a team of police – very few in uniform, several in plainclothes – descended on a...
Listen to this article: New Delhi: As women in Afghanistan are being subjected to one of the world’s most severe crisis of gender discrimination and...