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.

A photo exhibition brings alive the power of the dissenting multitude during the Civil Disobedience Movement against colonial rule in 1930s Bombay.

The decision to drop the Gandhi assassination from the NCERT’s history textbook just cannot extinguish the Mahatma’s memory.

The political environment has changed and it is the youth who have changed it, not the established political parties. Only those who respond to these rumblings in society will prevail.

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.