From Assam’s rhino to the Himalayan red panda, India’s wildlife stamps showcased biodiversity and the growing case for conservation. They also recognised regional identity, projected national strength, and carried a subtle message about sovereignty.

There are wheels within wheels in the ongoing protests, with the Left keeping a distance from the Congress, which is uneasy about the CJP. But as long as they continue to flag the attempted destruction of democracy, they will have achieved something.

The writer and translator discusses Kashmiri literature, language loss and cultural memory, and how younger Kashmiris are reclaiming their language through digital culture.

The Swedish Academy has awarded the Canadian poet, recognising her inventive writing and her engagement with ancient Greek literature.

Veteran diplomat Rajiv Dogra’s new book argues that the well-being of a nation depends on the quality of its leadership, and that expansion carries within itself the seeds of exhaustion that eventually bring empires down.

Using the 20th century as a case in point, the book shows how authoritarianism can take hold of a society, grow, and sustain itself. 

A discussion paper from the Principal Scientific Adviser proposes a middle path for AI data flows: keep strategic data in India, while allowing other data to cross borders under safeguards tailored to its sensitivity and identifiability.

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.