How and why religious and social customs continue to dictate where women can go, whom they can worship with and how their bodies should be regarded.

In Pinky Brahma Choudhury’s Duphang-Ni Solo, a Gaan tale of a grieving mother asks how many more families in Assam must lose their children before the mourning stops.

Translated from Telugu by Jayashree Mohanraj

As he interrogates Kannada literary history over the last century, Rajendra Chenni sees it as neither a celebration of masterpieces nor a catalogue of movements, but an inquiry into power, memory, and language.

This book by a former bureaucrat makes a persuasive case for balancing the material and non-material dimensions of life and building happiness indices into governance, but ultimately remains within a safe analytical perimeter.

Sahil Wakode’s story is eerily similar to other cases of student suicides at IIT Bombay. The common thread is the complaint of caste discrimination.

Minakshi Thakur’s sensitive and poignant novel is about ways of seeking closure after the devastation wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic. 

This anthology of queer writing in India is suffused with the language of US identity politics and the liberal emptiness of the diversity, equity, and inclusion model, which does not change structures at all but merely assimilates difference.

Montage, the technique that once revolutionised cinema, has now become the very thing chaining the film to itself, shrivelling all its possibilities into one resolved meaning.

A cycle of governance failures, official denials, and attacks on critics is eroding public trust and deepening the Modi government’s crisis of legitimacy. The Election Commission controversy is its latest example.

CCTV footage of Sahil Wakode’s final exam, leaked before any inquiry, was aired on a loop, and his parents were grilled about it on television. Why? 

The controversial filmmaker on Deshlai, his new film about a Bangladeshi TikToker; the Bengali cult of the dada; returning to Kolkata after a decade in Goa; and many mentionables and unmentionables.

The controversy over Supreme Court Justice Satish Chandra Sharma’s non-recusal from hearing certain cases revives questions on judicial disclosure and institutional conflict-checking mechanisms.

Amendments seeking references to Articles 370 and 35A were withdrawn before the vote, disappointing some legislators of the People’s Democratic Party and the ruling National Conference.

Two different surveys done a few years ago highlighted the reality of caste-based discrimination that SC/ST students face.

They were acquitted in 2025 after the Bombay High Court found evidence of torture and fabrication. A year later, they are struggling to rebuild families, careers, and lives lost to a case that also claimed years they can never recover.

The strides India has made in electronic warfare infrastructure often don’t get the recognition they deserve. But the system is currently more capable of countering adversary drones than protecting its own, and therein lies a problem.

Sold as a path to equality, the Uniform Civil Code lets parents will property away from daughters, and leaves Hindu and Muslim women more vulnerable to disinheritance.

While countries such as Russia, Iran, and China have policies governing people with links to foreign nations who seek or hold high public office, India has no such policies, and that is troubling.