Protests demanding Gyanesh Kumar’s ouster and the scrapping of SIR protests have rejuvenated the opposition, uniting parties once at odds and making it harder than ever for the BJP to discredit its critics.

Francis Halzen turned Antarctic ice into a neutrino telescope and finally traced cosmic rays to their sources; Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai figured out why life prefers left-handed molecules, and how to make chemistry do the same.

The movement’s leaders connect education, jobs and institutional accountability, and point to early successes. But critics question whether the CJP can take on so many causes, or whether its expanding agenda signals political ambitions.

The ECI’s promise to issue meeting minutes will be useful only if they are public and record members’ decisions and dissent. Five other bodies show how regular disclosure can make collective decisions more transparent.

David Shulman links West Bank resistance to Gandhian satyagraha, showing how despair turns moral duty into free speech under Israeli occupation.

Kala Krishnan’s poems in this heart-touching collection are an exercise in mapping love.

The collection of 10 essays on Shrilal Shukla’s magnum opus expertly makes a case for reading the novel as a window to our lived reality.

With 91,278 Form 7s filed in Karnataka between June 16 and October 4, mostly against legitimate Muslim voters, multiple FIRs have been filed against the objectors. But the question remains: who orchestrated the mass deletions?

A curated package that brings together a year of coverage of Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people.

The ECI is using Form 6, meant for first-time voters, to reinstate people removed during the SIR. Its changing declarations and demands for past voter or family records have drawn criticism as an ill-conceived burden for eligible voters.

The State’s forest bureaucracy is weakening communities’ rights and Gram Sabhas’ authority under the Forest Rights Act, with the agencies responsible for enforcing it allowing the violations to continue.

The bulk submission of pre-printed Form 7s targeting Muslim electors by BJP booth-level agents signals a conspiracy. Election officials’ failure to publicly disclose the “claims and objections” process makes the exercise even murkier.

Two Supreme Court petitions ask whether the three-member commission, or only its chief, took decisions on Form 6 and the rolls. Independence requires a traceable record.

Peter Hegemann, Georg Nagel, and Karl Deisseroth’s work on optogenetics has given scientists a precise way to activate selected neurons and study their role in memory, behaviour, and neurological disorders.

The British author spent five decades writing commercially successful novels through his turbulent political career that involved near-bankruptcy, a run for Mayor, a position in the House of Lords, and a prison term.

Two reports have documented an alarming rise in mob violence during the Modi decade, linking it to the spread of Hindutva under BJP rule. The impunity the mobs have enjoyed has helped violence that began as communal vigilantism spread across society.

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.