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What is the Perfect Rape Conviction?

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...

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Tanima Kishore

The Punjab That Partition Left Behind

Listen to this article: Chandigarh: For most Punjabis born after Independence – and certainly for anyone under the age of 60 today – Partition is...

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Rahul Bedi

Can Only the Incumbent Reclaim the Night in West Bengal?

Listen to this article: The cancellation of an initiative by Reclaim the Night Women Trans Queer United on August 14, 2026, in Kolkata raises...

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Satabdi Das

'Freedom Has No Religion': An Open Letter to Mayor V.V. Rajesh

Listen to this article: In an open letter addressed to Thiruvananthapuram Mayor V. V. Rajesh, George Abraham urges him to reflect on religious freedom...

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George Abraham

Dhaka Says Hasina's Press Meet in Delhi 'Vitiated' Bangladesh PM's India Trip, Seeks Extradition Update

Listen to this article: New Delhi: Bangladesh on Sunday (August 16) signalled that Prime Minister Tarique Rahman’s proposed visit to India this...

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The Wire Staff

'PoK Residents May Have Sought to Join J&K Before Article 370 Revocation': Omar Abdullah

Listen to this article: New Delhi: Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah, at an Independence Day event on Saturday (August 15), said people...

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The Wire Staff

Are Our Bureaucrats Only Busy Putting 'Lipstick on a Pig'?

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...

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Mathew John

36% to 44% of Railway Budget Underutilised in 2019-20 to 2023-24, CAG Finds

Listen to this article: New Delhi: An audit of passenger amenities and sanitation by the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India has revealed...

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The Wire Staff

Two Weeks After Muslim Man Dies After Alleged Assault by Kanwariyas in UP, Five Arrested

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...

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Omar Rashid

Sumit Sarkar Taught Generations to Take History Seriously

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...

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Shahana Bhattacharya And

The Good Indian’s Guide to Generations

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...

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Mrinal Pande

Why and How Chapal Bhadhuri Became 'Rani'

Listen to this article: When Shirsho Bandyopadhyay’s cover story Beneputul on the male queens of the Bengali folk jatra performance world came out...

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Mallarika Sinha Roy

Blood Has a Memory

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...

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Suvir Saran

Indians Switching to Cash Transactions, Using UPI Less Since Govt’s Merchant Fee Announcement: Report

Listen to this article: New Delhi: While the parliament has passed the Taxation and Other Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2026, in the recently-concluded...

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The Wire Staff

Why is the Govt Still Dragging its Feet on Integrated Theatre Command for Military?

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...

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Ajai Shukla

80th Independence Day: Is India Recolonising Itself?

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...

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Arun Kumar

Why Have There Been No Polls Commissioned To Gauge Impact of Youth Protests?

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...

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Karan Thapar

Bangladesh PM’s India Visit Within Days? Hasina Issue Keeps Date Unsettled

Listen to this article: New Delhi: Bangladesh Prime Minister Tarique Rahman’s proposed visit to India this month remains under negotiation, with no...

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The Wire Staff

'Batwara 1947' Remembers an Idea of India That Is Fading

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...

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Tatsam Mukherjee

Zoya Hasan's Independence Day Speech on Why Pluralism Matters, Which She Was Prevented From Delivering

The following is the speech Professor Zoya Hasan, Professor Emerita, Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, was scheduled to...

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Zoya Hasan

History Must Be Based Solely on Evidence: Irfan Habib

Listen to this article: Aligarh: On August 12, 2026, historian Irfan Habib turned 95. As a distinguished figure in Indian historiography, Habib has...

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Ankit Raj

‘Dimagi Naxals’, Online Coaching, AI: No Mention of Youth Anger in Modi's Independence Day Speech

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...

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Sravasti Dasgupta

Summer of ’75: Emergency, Hindi Cinema and the India that Changed

Listen to this article: In the years leading up to the Emergency, the “miracle” democracy and its newly minted citizens came to realise that...

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Shivendra Singh

Number of Indian Students in the US Drops to 29-Month Low: Report

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...

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The Wire Staff

Modi's 12th Red Fort Speech Revealed a Leader Who Has Lost His Mojo

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...

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Harish Khare

This Independence Day, Modi is Empty, Out of Both Energy and Ideas

Listen to this article: Stale food stinks. Swinging between the two pet themes of “2014 se pahle (Before 2024)” and “2047 mein Viksit Bharat...

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Sanjay K. Jha

Over 100 Signatories Urge CJI Surya Kant to Uphold Liberty for Umar Khalid, Sharjeel Imam

Listen to this article: New Delhi: More than 100 activists, writers, filmmakers, journalists and academics have written to Chief Justice of India...

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The Wire Staff

NLSIU Bengaluru Graduating Students, Existing Students and Alumni Demand ‘Unconditional Apology’ from BCI

Listen to this article: New Delhi: The graduating students of India’s first law university, the National Law School of India University or NLSIU,...

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The Wire Staff

Privacy Matters: Your Data Can Make You Pay More, Earn Less and Lose Access to What You Need

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...

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Gayathri M.r

VHP Denies Protest Against JNU Professor Zoya Hasan After Talk on Pluralism Cancelled in Delhi School

New Delhi: On August 14, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) professor emerita Zoya Hasan scheduled address on “Why Pluralism Matters” at Sardar...

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Tarushi Aswani

How Indian Communists Built a Mass Movement and Why the State Feared It

Listen to this article: In March 1929, communist organisers and trade unionists were arrested across India and charged in what became the Meerut...

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Rashi Agrawal

The Rs 4.6 Lakh Crore Price India Pays For Violence Against Women

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...

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Sonali Mishra And

India's Next Delimitation Must Protect Federal Fairness, Not Just Follow the Numbers

Listen to this article: Few constitutional questions have generated as much public debate in recent years as the prospect of the next delimitation...

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Mano Thangaraj

Island Administration Now Wants A Private, ‘Green’ AI Data Centre on Great Nicobar

Listen to this article: New Delhi: The Great Nicobar island – which will lose 130 square kilometers of rainforest to upcoming controversial...

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The Wire Staff

The Unequal Road to Becoming a Doctor in India

Listen to this article: Over the past decade, despite prolonged litigation, the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET-UG), the world’s...

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Rasipogula Vinod Kumar And

If Voter Rolls Were Properly Maintained, Would SIR Be Needed? RTI Records Tell the Story.

Listen to this article: The Special Intensive Revision (SIR), the Election Commission of India’s (ECI) mechanism for verifying electoral rolls, is...

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Suchak Patel

How Abdul Basheer's Family Held a Funeral That Challenged Hatred

Listen to this article: In June this year, Karwan e Mohabbat organised a festival in Hyderabad called Rehmat, to celebrate radical love and courageous...

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Safa Kt

The Medium Transport Aircraft’s Hidden Burden

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...

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Rahul Bedi

Swaraj is Freedom from Xenophobic Nationalism

On September 7, 1964, American television screens flickered with an innocent vignette that instantly crystallised the supreme horror of the modern...

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Faisal C.k

Umar Khalid's Scholarship, Incarceration and the Question of Rights: What Speakers Said at Press Club

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...

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Saras Anand

‘Turned JNU Into Her Personal Fiefdom’: JNUTA-JNUSU Demand V-C’s Resignation, Probe into Alleged Recruitment Scam

Listen to this article: New Delhi: The Jawaharlal Nehru University Teachers’ Association (JNUTA) and Jawaharlal Nehru University Students’ Union...

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The Wire Staff

Are We Asking the Wrong Questions About Women’s Work and Falling Fertility?

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...

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Abhishek Vajjala And

Hi Friends, What If the PM Spoke to India With Radical Honestly in Tomorrow’s Speech?

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...

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Manoj Kumar Jha

VHP Ruckus Forces Sardar Patel Vidyalaya to Cancel Zoya Hasan’s Talk on Pluralism

Listen to this article: New Delhi: On Friday (August 14), two realities unfolded right before the Independence Day, when the doorbell of Jawaharlal...

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Tarushi Aswani

What Fuelled the Rebellion Within the Tatas

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...

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Dev Chatterjee

Kill the Censorship

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...

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Editorial

Why the Open Space Discussion Held in JNU on Umar Khalid's Book Reminds Us of the French Revolution

Listen to this article: A huge gathering of students of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) assembled in the open space in the vicinity of the...

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S.n. Sahu

Full Text | Justice Abhay S. Oka on Whether Articles 21 and 19(1)(a) Are Followed or Forgotten

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...

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Abhay S. Oka

Questions on Imo App, SIR: Bengaluru Police Targets, Beats and Detains Bengali Speaking Migrants

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...

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Sukanya Shantha

Senior Indian Officials Expected To Be Present At Taliban's 'Victory Day' Celebration in Delhi

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...

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