Stories of dissent, solidarity, and a legacy still in motion.

The recent Tamil Nadu Dalit Women’s Conference held in Chennai highlighted the everyday violence imposed on Dalit women and urged economic empowerment as the biggest leveller.

The View From Here and Hyphen represent an irrepressible impulse in India’s literary cultures to give voice to the human imagination, and reject the silence imposed by authoritarian states.

In Rehmat, Gurvinder Singh looks beyond the wounds, into a history of human bonding.

India leads the world in milk production, but output is concentrated in a handful of States. Expanding chilling infrastructure with solar-powered systems could help underserved regions join the dairy boom.

The upcoming Assembly election might be the opposition’s best opportunity to stop the BJP juggernaut in Uttar Pradesh, and Akhilesh Yadav and Rahul Gandhi must go the whole nine yards to present voters with a unified, viable alternative.

A novel that won the Assamese Sahitya Akademi Award, a book that unpacks an important conversation around race, colonialism and international relations, and much more.

Adityanath has nurtured the image of being a no-nonsense administrator but continues to employ divisive and polarising rhetoric. With his position in the BJP ecosystem still not secure, his future will hinge on the forthcoming Assembly election.

Interview with the psephologist who teaches at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies.

Having used the building of the Ayodhya temples as a potent electoral tool, the BJP is now trying hard to contain the fallout from the “donation scam” by framing it as an administrative misstep and shifting spotlight to other issues.

Although the Adityanath government claims rapid economic strides in recent years, the State’s famed manufacturing units are desperately trying to keep their heads above water.

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.