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Palestinian Writers Have Long Explored Horrors Of Amputation

Words fail as 2,000-pound bombs shred lives and limbs. The sheer number of children killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza…

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MCC Turned Into ‘Modi Code Of Conduct’ Under BJP Rule: Mamata

On Tuesday, May 7, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee alleged that the Election Commission had turned a blind eye…

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How Bioengineering Saved A Himalayan Road From Floods

On 14 August 2023, heavy rainfall in North India triggered flash floods and landslides, devastating the region. Kishori Lal, the…

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Media Coverage Of Campus Protests Focuses On The Spectacle

Protest movements can look very different depending on where you stand, both literally and figuratively. For protesters, demonstrations are usually…

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MDBs Must Prioritize Clean & Community-Led Energy Projects

Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs), governments, and corporations across 160 countries consider or approve more than one investment per day in…

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How News Gatherers Can Respond To Social Media Challenge

Print and electronic media are coping admirably with the upheavals being wrought by social media. When 29-year-old YouTuber Dhruv Rathee…

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Kashmir: Indoor Saffron Farming Offers Hope Amid Declining Production

Kashmir, the world’s second-largest producer of saffron has faced a decline in saffron cultivation over the past two decades. Some…

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Pilgrim’s Progress: Keeping Workers Safe In The Holy Land

The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Christianity’s holiest shrine in the world, is an unlikely place to lose yourself in…

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How Advertising And Not Social Media, Killed Traditional Journalism

The debate over the future relationship between news and social media is bringing us closer to a long-overdue reckoning. Social…

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PM Modi Reading From 2014 Script, Misleading People: Shrinate

On Sunday, May 5, Congress leader Supriya Shrinate claimed that PM Narendra Modi was reading from his 2019 script for…

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Killing Journalists Cannot Kill The Truth

As I write, the grim count of journalists killed in Gaza since last October has reached 97. Reporters Without Borders…

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The Corporate Takeover Of India’s Media

December 30, 2022, was a day to forget for India’s already badly mauled and tamed media. For, that day, influential…

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What Shakespeare Can Teach Us About Racism

William Shakespeare’s famous tragedy “Othello” is often the first play that comes to mind when people think of Shakespeare and…

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Student Protests Look Familiar But March To A Different Beat

This week, Columbia University began suspending students who refused to dismantle a protest camp, after talks between the student organisers…

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Free And Fearless Journalism In The Midst Of A Fight For Survival

Freedom of the press, a cornerstone of democracy, is under attack around the world, just when we need it more…

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Commentary: The Heat Is On, From Poll Booths To Weather Stations

Parts of India are facing a heatwave, for which the Kerala heat is a curtain raiser. Kerala experienced its first…

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India Uses National Interest As A Smokescreen To Muzzle The Media

The idea of a squadron of government officials storming a newsroom to shut down news-gathering and seize laptops and phones…

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Eco-anxiety Soars As Planet Health Plummets

Climate anxiety, ecological anxiety, eco-anxiety, or environmental anxiety are umbrella terms used to describe a spectrum of mental and emotional…

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The Curious Case Of Google Trends In India

For nine of the last ten years, the most searches were for why Apple products and Evian water are so…

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Here’s How Real Journalists Can Lead The War Against Deepfakes

Almost half the world is voting in national elections this year and AI is the elephant in the room. There…

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How India Can Do More To Protect Workers In War Zones

When 65 Indian construction workers landed in Israel on April 2 to start jobs once taken by Palestinians, they were…

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“This Is In Honour Of The Adivasis Fighting For Their Land, Water, Forest”

Chhattisgarh-based environmental activist Alok Shukla was conferred the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize for leading a community campaign to protect the…

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Why Has PM Ignored Plight Of Marathwada’s Farmers: Congress

On Tuesday, 30 April, the Congress accused PM Narendra Modi of ignoring the plight of farmers in Marathwada and also…

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Punjab’s ‘Donkey Flights’ To The Conflict Zones Of The World

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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Indian Ocean Is Headed For A Near-Permanent State Of Marine Heatwave

Marine heatwaves are events where ocean temperatures rise to extreme levels and hold steady for at least five days. These…

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