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Words fail as 2,000-pound bombs shred lives and limbs. The sheer number of children killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza…
On Tuesday, May 7, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee alleged that the Election Commission had turned a blind eye…
On 14 August 2023, heavy rainfall in North India triggered flash floods and landslides, devastating the region. Kishori Lal, the…
Protest movements can look very different depending on where you stand, both literally and figuratively. For protesters, demonstrations are usually…
Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs), governments, and corporations across 160 countries consider or approve more than one investment per day in…
Print and electronic media are coping admirably with the upheavals being wrought by social media. When 29-year-old YouTuber Dhruv Rathee…
Kashmir, the world’s second-largest producer of saffron has faced a decline in saffron cultivation over the past two decades. Some…
The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Christianity’s holiest shrine in the world, is an unlikely place to lose yourself in…
The debate over the future relationship between news and social media is bringing us closer to a long-overdue reckoning. Social…
On Sunday, May 5, Congress leader Supriya Shrinate claimed that PM Narendra Modi was reading from his 2019 script for…
As I write, the grim count of journalists killed in Gaza since last October has reached 97. Reporters Without Borders…
December 30, 2022, was a day to forget for India’s already badly mauled and tamed media. For, that day, influential…
William Shakespeare’s famous tragedy “Othello” is often the first play that comes to mind when people think of Shakespeare and…
This week, Columbia University began suspending students who refused to dismantle a protest camp, after talks between the student organisers…
Freedom of the press, a cornerstone of democracy, is under attack around the world, just when we need it more…
Parts of India are facing a heatwave, for which the Kerala heat is a curtain raiser. Kerala experienced its first…
The idea of a squadron of government officials storming a newsroom to shut down news-gathering and seize laptops and phones…
A wave of protests expressing solidarity with the Palestinian people is spreading across college and university campuses. There were more…
Climate anxiety, ecological anxiety, eco-anxiety, or environmental anxiety are umbrella terms used to describe a spectrum of mental and emotional…
For nine of the last ten years, the most searches were for why Apple products and Evian water are so…
Almost half the world is voting in national elections this year and AI is the elephant in the room. There…
When 65 Indian construction workers landed in Israel on April 2 to start jobs once taken by Palestinians, they were…
Chhattisgarh-based environmental activist Alok Shukla was conferred the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize for leading a community campaign to protect the…
On Tuesday, 30 April, the Congress accused PM Narendra Modi of ignoring the plight of farmers in Marathwada and also…
Widespread joblessness explains why Punjab’s migrants resort to desperate means to reach their final destinations. Dunki in Punjabi means to hop,…
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