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Without Any Prior Warning, Paranjoy Guha Thakurta's Websites, Associated Subdomains Taken Down

Listen to this article: New Delhi: Veteran independent journalist Paranjoy Guha Thakurta’s websites and its associated subdomains like...

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Antara Baruah

House Arrest, Detentions, FIRs: What Protesters Demanding Justice For Sahil Wakode Say Police Are Subjecting Them to

New Delhi: Samya Korde is reasonably familiar with protests and the Mumbai police, and is usually unsurprised when she is detained from protest sites....

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'Ports Are Not For War': Indian Dockworkers Join Global Call for Action

Listen to this article: New Delhi: On Friday, October 30, approximately 5,000 Indian dockworkers are responding to a global call for action against...

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IIT-B Students Allege Police Brutality, Violent Detentions at Protest for Sahil Wakode

Listen to this article: New Delhi: On October 18, marking the one month anniversary of Sahil Wakode’s death by suicide, a fresh wave of harassment...

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‘Couldn’t Have a Show Just on How Beautiful Things Are’: Raihan Vadra After Delhi Gallery Forces Him to 'Take Down' 75 Protest Photographs

Listen to this article: New Delhi: At Raihan Vadra’s exhibition, titled ‘No Idea Is Final’, the empty walls speak more than any photograph...

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Antara Baruah

‘Couldn’t Have a Show Just on How Beautiful Things Are’: Raihan Vadra After Delhi Gallery Forces Him to 'Take Down' 75 Protest Photographs

Listen to this article: New Delhi: At Raihan Vadra’s exhibition, titled ‘No Idea Is Final’, the empty walls speak more than any photograph...

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Randall Sequeira and Laxman Naik's Arrests Among Several Meant to Clear the Way for Mining in Odisha, Say Activists

Listen to this article: New Delhi: At 11 pm on October 16, medical doctor and community health organiser Randall Sequeira and Dalit activist Laxman...

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Lathis at the Pandal: Heavy-Handed Policing Unsettles C.R. Park Durga Puja

Listen to this article: New Delhi: This year’s Durga Puja celebrations have been marked by unexpected, surprisingly invasive interlopers – Delhi...

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'Had No Fear of Crocodiles as a Child, Now Scared of Cockroaches': CJP, Left Groups, Activists Slam Modi Govt

Listen to this article: New Delhi: All India Students’ Association (AISA) president Neha Bora, Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) founder Abhijeet Dipke,...

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Jantar Mantar, and What Experts Feel About the Denotification of Dissent

Listen to this article: New Delhi: On the morning of October 13, Cockroach Janta Party leaders Saurav Das, Ashutosh Ranka, Ajinkya Shinde and a...

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‘No Fear, Only Rage’: After Days of Brutal State Crackdown, Delhi Returns to the Streets

Listen to this article: New Delhi: From a distance, this is how it looked: the flags of the Congress party merged into those of the Communist Party of...

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Across Class and Circumstance: 10 Stories of Delhi Voters Grappling with SIR

In the national capital Delhi, the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of voters lists and the legion of problems it has produced for citizens is...

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10 Citizens, 10 Stories of Chaos: How Delhi is Erasing Vulnerable Voters Through SIR

In the national capital Delhi, the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of voters lists and the legion of problems it has produced for citizens is...

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'Was Ghosted': Why Nisarga Adhikary Wrote to Election Commission and CERT-in in July

Listen to this article: New Delhi: Nineteen-year-old software engineer Nisarga Adhikary, known for identifying security lapses in the CBSE’s online...

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MP John Brittas Says His Letter to President on CEC Gyanesh Kumar 'Has Been Forwarded'

Listen to this article: New Delhi: Among the various opposition MPs who are currently on their way to Jantar Mantar is CPI(M)’s John Brittas, who...

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PMO Wants Central Universities to Rethink Seminal Anti-Caste Readings Based on Anonymous X Post

Listen to this article: New Delhi: The Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) has apparently asked central universities to rethink the inclusion of seminal...

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App Glitches, Absurd Errors, Scared Voters: In Delhi’s Chhattarpur and Mehrauli, BLOs Struggle to Clear SIR Notices

Listen to this article: New Delhi: Sunil Kumar, a voter in Delhi’s Jaunpur, a tightly packed middle class neighbourhood in the Chhatarpur...

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Amid SIR Hearings Across Delhi, Many Voters Say They Were Unaware of Notices

Listen to this article: New Delhi: Sunita Devi has an Aadhaar card, a PAN card, and a bank passbook. She has lived in Delhi for the last 30 years,...

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As Gurugram Hit-and-Run Spirals Online, Biker Sia Has One Motive – Make Roads Safer For Women

Listen to this article: New Delhi: What happened to biker Shivani Chauhan, alias Sia, was not extraordinary. The 27-year-old was driving her motorbike...

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How Sufi Comics is Changing Mainstream Mentality One Book at a Time

Listen to this article: New Delhi: Muhammad Ali Vakil grew up in Dubai in the early 1990s, suspended between worlds: learning and internalising Islam...

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Antara Baruah

'They Tore My Clothes': Delhi Police Beat, Detain Protesters Demanding MCD Commissioner's Resignation

Listen to this article: New Delhi: Around 30 students and workers, including members of Himkhand, an environmental collective, were detained and...

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Climate Change One of Several Factors That Could Have Triggered Nepal Floods

Listen to this article: New Delhi: Human-induced climate change may have thawed permafrost contributing to the instability of the rock wall that gave...

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Mob Violence Is Now Commonplace: Six Points From a Report Tracing Lynchings From 2014-2024

Listen to this article: New Delhi: Lynching and the prevailing climate of ‘Sangh-affiliated violence,’ often targeting Muslims, was previously...

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Antara Baruah

Why Gurugram Flooding Reflects Multi-Sectoral Failure

Listen to this article: Gurugram (Haryana): It happened quickly and unceremoniously. On August 26, a sinkhole opened up on a chunk of the Delhi-Jaipur...

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Zubeen Garg saga is resembling Sushant Singh Rajput. Did we not learn our lesson?

Oceans sit between the Assamese singer and the Bollywood actor. But what their deaths reveal is a study in human behaviour as performed in the public...

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Nepal protest shows Gen Z believes in comeuppance—not due process

This is a generation that has been made mincemeat. Whether it’s Nepal, Sri Lanka, or Bangladesh, each country’s youth has been slapped with crisis...

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Manali floods show how short-term tourism vision brings long-term ruin

India’s hills are caught in a time warp of repeating disasters. It’s a sign for the authorities leading the lofty development plans that have...

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Officers Qureshi, Singh & Deosthalee on KBC hot seat—a Bollywood-like spectacle

At one point in the episode, Commander Deosthalee, who is the first Indian woman to command a naval warship, compared the three of them to a...

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