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Weaponising Truth: A critical analysis of the Karnataka Misinformation and Fake News (Prohibition) Bill, 2025
Marketed as a tool to fight disinformation, the Karnataka Misinformation and Fake News (Prohibition) Bill, 2025 hands sweeping powers to the executive, criminalises speech, and threatens to silence dissent, satire, and critique—under vague and ideological pretexts
Potential of reasoned Collegium resolutions as a starting point for transparency in the Indian higher judiciary
One way ahead out of the recent quagmire is for the higher judiciary, especially the Supreme Court to provide more reasoned public communiques on the decisions for appointments, transfers etc; though not the ideal solution, this would be a step forward
Evolution of the Left [CPI (M)] approach towards Hindutva politics: A Reading of its own documents – Part 3
Building on the ideological clarity achieved at the 22nd...
Evolution of CPI(M)’s approach towards Hindutva Politics: A Reading of its own documents – Part 2
While attempting to comprehend how CPI (M)’s response towards...
Evolution of CPI(M)’s approach towards Hindutva Politics: A Reading of its own documents – Part 1
As the All India Conference (s) of leading Communist...
Pakistan’s education policy blatantly anti-minority, anti-women
The outcome of the school curriculum reason behind religious extremism, crimes against women
Who is Mumbai for? Students and Mumbaikars ponder the question
The voices I heard at the Government Law College...
Mountain Man Dasrath Manjhi: A Kabir panthi from the MahaDalit community who toiled for 22 years to make the impossible possible
Kindly consider these three facts, also try to imagine...
India’s Censorship Hypocrisy: Ban on Santosh and promotion of Chhaava
When films that expose caste and gender violence are banned, but nationalist narratives are celebrated, what remains of artistic freedom?
Syncretic Dreams, Shattered Realities: Kashmir in “The Hybrid Wanderers”
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The paradox of nationalism & Indian representation abroad: S. Jaishankar’s visit to my university
A student at the University College Dublin, positions his experience of the Indian external affairs minister recent visit to the country where he studies; the author sensitively probes the worrying dichotomy of unconcern with the situation back home that the majority Indian diaspora experiences, even as India and Indians falter on the human rights indices test
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