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If India wants to be a leader of the Global South, it must enact a refugee protection law

Under the guise of detaining ‘illegal migrants’, the police has been arresting refugees recognised under the mandate of the UNHCR.

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How Indian schools’ focus on entrance tests is stunting education

Dummy schools and others that focus on training students for tests leave many ill-equipped to lead full professional and social lives.

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How stigma makes mental health a ghost in India’s public conscious

Rather than a social problem, mental suffering is viewed as weakness, moral failure or spiritual deficiency, making it difficult to seek help or support.

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Opposing genocide is not complicated. So why does Germany back Israel unflinchingly?

The country’s support for Israel as Staatsräson, or reason of state, collides with the architecture of international justice.

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As the world goes digital, young artists keep India’s printmaking legacy alive

Featuring 30 young artists from 14 states, a show in Hyderabad showed that a new generation values process as much as product.

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When the literature Nobel Prize winner László Krasznahorkai journeyed through China

An excerpt from ‘Destruction and Sorrow beneath the Heavens’, a travel memoir from China by the 2025 Nobel Laureate.

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Review: ‘Search: The Naina Murder Case’ is a clinical, engaging whodunit

The Hindi series, adapted from ‘The Killing’, is out on JioHotstar.

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