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The BEST Strike: Years of unfulfilled promises, structural neglect and the future of public transport in Mumbai
From unpaid employee dues and stalled budget reforms to controversial depot monetisation and the expansion of the wet-lease model, the strike has reopened fundamental questions about the future of public transport in Mumbai
Murder(s) at and of Lalit Kala Akademi
On April 8, 2024 the Lalit Kala Akademi (LKA)...
A Cooperative Housing Society “embraces” the Vision of Viksit Bharat 2047
The Ruling Party released their hastily prepared manifesto with great fanfare with a rather compliant commercial media giving it much coverage and publicity.Chandru Chawla, a free-lance writer takes a satirical look through the lens of a Housing Society, whose quirky members are a microcosm of what’s happening around the country.This Housing Society has members of the privileged class, who are hard core fan boys of the Beloved Leader. They place a higher priority on the long term attention shifting narratives of a Leader clinging on to Power, while compromising on what the Indian people need immediately and urgently addressed
Anti-Rupala Rajputs ‘have no support’ of numerically strong Kshatriya communities
Personally, I have no love lost for Purshottam Rupala,...
Karnataka: While Congress lead increases, a neck to neck fight challenges party workers & organisation
With ten days to go for the first phase of Lok Sabha elections in Karnataka, while the state's voter preference is leaning towards the Congress, there are serious challenges in the run up to the polls reveals a Final Phase Survey conducted by Eedina.com. The survey estimates that the Congress will get more than 13-18 seats and the BJP-JD(S) alliance will get closer to 10-13 seats.
What’s Bill Gates up to? Have ‘irregularities’ found in funding HPV vaccine trials faded?
After having read the 72nd report of the Department Related Parliamentary...
Youth as game changers in Lok Sabha polls? Young voter registration ‘is so very low’
Young voters will be the game changers in 2024....
What are you doing Bro? Cyrus writes a 20 Point, Open Letter to Rahul Gandhi
In a hilarious and sarcastic dig, the author, a senior freelance journalist, lays out exactly what in the Indian National Congress’ manifesto (released on April 5, 2024) is irking the privileged and socially entrenched chatterati and this includes the country’s omnipresent television anchors; and why a re-assertion of India’s commitment to the constitutional vision at this juncture in our journey is something that ought to be celebrated
Modi v/s Modi – Will the Real PM Please Stand Up?
Given the relevance of the issues in this essay,...
Militarising Minds, Hindutvaising the Nation | Training Future Military Leaders Imbued in Hindutva Supremacism?
How the policy of PPP (Public Private Partnership) Model in Sainik Schools is counter to all Constitutional principles and values
PSST! Shall we inform the reader or let sleeping bonds lie?
The senior editor questions the strange shadows and silences in the pre-eminent and dominant Indian media industry on the obvious follow-ups to the mammoth Electoral Bonds Scam and points out how, from the questionable role of the State Bank of India (SBI) to former, Union Finance minister Arun Jaitley there are some crucial stories still crying to be done
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The BEST Strike: Years of unfulfilled promises, structural neglect and the future of public transport in Mumbai
From unpaid employee dues and stalled budget reforms to controversial depot monetisation and the expansion of the wet-lease model, the strike has reopened fundamental questions about the future of public transport in Mumbai
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Declared Foreigners, Facing Deportation: Supreme Court grants interim relief
Women detained after being declared foreigners argue that tribunals disregarded substantial evidence and relied on minor inconsistencies to reject their citizenship claims
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Release Kashmiri HRD Khurram Pervez immediately & unconditionally: International HR Fora
In a strong joint statement issued on the occasion of Khurram Parvez’s 49th birthday on June 18, 2026, close to 100 international organisations and an equal number of individuals, including those associated with the United Nations like World Organization against Torture (OMCT), within the framework of the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, Frontline Defenders, Amnesty International, among others, have demanded the immediate and unconditional release of the Kashmiri human rights defender and the relentless campaign of judicial harassment.
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Thirty years on, justice remains elusive for Dalits in Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Haryana
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The telegram NEET case and the expansion of platform-level censorship in India
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From a daughter to her mother Indiramma, Kavitha Lankesh writes, “I will miss you. Everyday.”
By the morning of Monday, June 15, 2026, Indira Lankesh (Indiramma as we all knew her), mother of Kavitha and Gauri Lankesh, wife and partner of Parvathi Lankesh and grandmother to her beloved Esha, left peacefully in her sleep. She was 83 years old. Today, on the afternoon of Saturday June 20, about 1/1.30 p.m. her beautiful and loyal daughter, Kavitha Lankesh wrote this tribute to her on Meta/Facebook.