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Why Delhi HC is angry with Wikipedia for calling ANI a ‘government propaganda tool’

The attempt by the courts to gag the online encyclopedia has raised concerns about online free speech in India.

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MK Stalin asks Centre to recall Tamil Nadu Governor RN Ravi after row over state song

The governor attended an event organised by the public broadcaster where the word ‘Dravida’ was omitted while singing the state song.

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‘Women living by their own free will’: SC shuts case against Isha Foundation in habeas corpus plea

The bench said its decision does not prevent the police from proceeding with other investigations against the group, founded by preacher Jaggi Vasudev.

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In GN Saibaba’s death, a sign for disability rights movement to take its struggles beyond inclusion

The criminal justice system’s brutal outlook towards disabled prisoners is reflected in decade-long imprisonment of the wheelchair-bound professor.

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Simmering fires of Pakistan’s inflationary crisis could sever connection between citizens and state

We don’t have full appreciation of all the ways in which a population which has stewed so long in the fires of inflation will react and behave.

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‘It was more insanity than courage’: Arpita Das on what made her start Yoda Press twenty years ago

When asked why Yoda Press focuses on voices from the margins of India, Das said she did not want the press to fall into an ‘urban, upper-class, elite trap.’

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Sakshi Malik’s memoir ‘Witness’: The wrestler sees an unsparing image of herself in her own mirror

Her parents, siblings, former opponents, and present comrades will also find reflections of themselves that they would far rather have hidden from the world.

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‘Snakes and Ladders’ review: Teenagers go enjoyably rogue

The Tamil-language series from Karthik Subbaraj’s company is out on Prime Video.

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