Bihar’s Himalayan rivers bring recurring floods, while weak embankment management and faltering India-Nepal cooperation leave families exposed. As some districts drown and others go thirsty, relief offers brief respite, not a lasting solution.

The political scientist at the University of Haifa discusses the political status of Palestinian citizens of Israel, divisions among Arab political parties, the Gaza war, and the struggle for equal citizenship.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and teacher, who died on September 15, explored the violence of the natural world and the limits of faith in Pilgrim at Tinker Creek and Holy the Firm. She found the extraordinary in the everyday.

After three years of wars and upheaval, Palestinian Arab citizens remain a major part of Israel’s electorate, making up roughly one-fifth of the population. Yet their parties struggle to be accepted as partners in deciding who governs the country.

The Chief Minister says the Lieutenant Governor holds the real powers. Opposition leaders and a National Conference MP say 2024 promises are unmet.

The former UGC Chairman discusses caste discrimination in IITs, reservation, UGC equity rules, and the need for a law to protect SC students.

Bihar’s verdict was not just an NDA win—it was the unmaking of Tejashwi Yadav’s inheritance. The big question is: will he reclaim the Mandal mantle?

TVK chief and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay is treating the byelections to the Madurantakam and Dharapuram seats as a referendum on his four-month-old government, but the DMK and AIADMK are putting up a spirited fight.

And why the opposition should boycott elections to force electoral reform.

Santhi Soundarajan, stripped of her 2006 Asian Games silver after a gender test, says Vithya Ramraj’s Nagoya success will open doors for athletes, but asks why officials never fought for her equality.

Complicating the familiar claim that coal powers development, Matthew Shutzer’s history of coal extraction in India reveals how national abundance was built on rural dispossession.

How aquaculture farmers in Solomon Islands, Fiji, and Palau describe rain without sun, ponds that flood or run low, and clam cages choked with algae.

In the tourism-dependent State, resorts have long taken priority over residents. Now, that priority is reshaping its coastline.

Mumbai’s overwhelming response to the Cockroach Janta Party’s protest demanding Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar’s resignation is a shot in the arm for the CJP, which has now announced a Jantar Mantar protest on October 10.

Metro stations closed, roads barricaded, and more than 700 detained as students and opposition parties protest against the Election Commission. A visual guide to the agitation.

The obsession with grand projects that increase the likelihood of severe floods stems from a colonial mindset, says the geographer.

For fifty years we have enshrined him. We must now enfranchise him again.

The Khilafat movement of 1919 offers a century-old lesson in how religious symbols can mobilise democratic mass politics, provided they serve an inclusive political project rather than become ends in themselves.