In Assam, Presence Of Fluoride In Groundwater Is Bending Bones
Several districts of Assam report unsafe levels of fluoride in the groundwater. Prolonged consumption is leading to irreversible cases of...
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‘Being Out In Nature Is A Small But Significant Act Of Resistance’
Summer is the season of amaltas in Delhi. The yellow-flowering trees, also known as Indian laburnum, burst into bloom as...
Banning Telegram Will Not Stop Paper Leaks, Says Arvind Kejriwal
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convener Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday sharply criticised the government's decision to temporarily ban messaging platform...
India’s Youth‑Led CJP May Prove As Hard To Kill As Its Namesake
The greatest challenge to India’s government in years began as an online joke. On May 16, after Supreme Court Chief...
As India Gets Hotter, Clothing Adds A Layer To Caste Inequality
Inside the narrow lanes of Shahbad Dairy, a suburb outside north-west Delhi, is a concrete maze of houses packed tightly...
Jaipur Attack: “There Were Some People Belonging To RSS…”
Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) founder Abhijeet Dipke has alleged that an attack on him during a protest in Jaipur was...
Iran War: What Did The US & Israel Truly Achieve?
After weeks of on-again, off-again negotiations, US President Donald Trump finally seems to have secured an agreement from the Iranian...
‘I Fear I’ll Retire Before Then’: High Fuel Costs Leave Drivers Stranded
For 60-year-old app-based cab driver Ramsurat, rising fuel prices are more than a temporary inconvenience. “The rising fuel cost keeps...
‘Organised Loot’ Of Over ₹1,400 Cr In Ram Temple Donations: Congress
The Congress on Tuesday intensified its attack on the BJP and the RSS over allegations of financial irregularities linked to...
Earth’s Energy Imbalance Has Doubled – Here’s Why That Matters
Heatwave across Europe and south Asia have dominated the news recently. But these events are really a surface expression of...
India’s Cockroach Janata Party And The Crisis Of Collective Politics
The recent blocking of the “Cockroach Janata Party” account revealed something deeper than the fate of a meme page or...
CG Mining Project Overlaps Wildlife Corridor, Ignites Debate
A proposed iron ore mining and processing project in Maharashtra’s Gadchiroli district has ignited a fresh debate over the future...
What Happens When The World’s Breadbaskets Start Failing At Once?
Agriculture today is a massive, globally interconnected industry. That interconnectivity has brought jobs and varied foods to people who might...
India’s Opposition Stays Stranded Between Alliance And Disarray
In its first meeting after the five state legislative assembly elections held in April-May this year, the Opposition INDIA bloc...
Mumbai’s Hidden Water Crisis: Groundwater Reliance Under Lens
Mumbai depends significantly on groundwater, supplied by water tankers, to meet its municipal water supply shortfall. However, weak regulation and...
What Is ‘Strategic Autonomy’ & Why Is Everyone Reaching For It?
Strategic autonomy is having a moment. European leaders are invoking it to justify a historic defense buildup; India’s foreign ministry...
Congress Slams Modi’s Longest PM Tenure Milestone
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s achievement of becoming India’s longest continuously serving elected prime minister has triggered a sharp political confrontation,...
A Man Out Of Time – E.M. Forster And The Legacies Of Colonialism
I was aware of David Lean’s cinematic adaptation of A Passage to India (1984) before I encountered E.M. Forster’s original...
A Bird Call That Signals Rains
In rural Darjeeling, West Bengal, communities predict the arrival of rains with a bird call that sounds like a maniacal,...
‘No Comparison Possible Between Jawaharlal Nehru And PM Modi’
Nationalist Congress Party (SP) chief Sharad Pawar on Wednesday said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi's long tenure in office should...
Baloch Insurgency: How It Imperils South Asian Regional Security
In the space of 10 days in late April 2026, insurgents in Pakistan purportedly carried out 27 attacks in the...
Rethinking Restoration Of Forests In India Beyond Tree Cover
India’s dry forest region gained 2.10 million hectares between 2014 and 2024, but this increase masks substantial deforestation, much of...
’12 Years Of Headlines, Not Results’
As the Narendra Modi-led government marked two years of its third term on 9 June, the Congress intensified its attack...
India’s Waste-Climate Opportunity Begins Before Disposal
India does not need to wait for a new generation of climate technologies to begin reducing emissions from waste. A...
‘We Are Losing Not Only Work, But Survival’: India’s Informal Workers
“Why do you want to know what we do? Do you want to steal our work and shut our shops?”...
