From displaced Dalit farmers in Andhra Pradesh to water-stressed communities elsewhere, India’s data centre boom is advancing with weak safeguards and little public scrutiny. It’s time to set rules before more land and resources are committed.

From India’s electoral-roll revision to barriers to citizenship in Europe and West Asia, states are leaving more people without secure rights or a place to belong.

He would do whatever it is that those who keep invoking him have already missed the bus on, which is to boycott engineered elections.

Gandhi dismissed Kamaraj’s Congress as a clique and trusted Rajaji instead, but by the measure of Gandhi’s own talisman, it was Kamaraj who served the poorest best.

Laura Shepherd-Robinson’s The Art of a Lie follows a widow, a suspicious death, and the secrets of a Westminster confectioner’s shop. It may even tempt you to cancel your streaming subscription.

After a drug racket was busted in Karnataka, the challenge is to close the price gaps that make counterfeiting profitable and strengthen supply-chain checks so fake medicines are harder to sell and more likely to be detected before reaching patients.

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.