On October 16, in Delhi’s Connaught Place, a former BJP voter unfolded a giant tricolour and sparked a spectacular march—a moment that revealed why the party’s real fear is not the protesters it can barricade, but the believers it cannot.

In Bengal, worship, carnival, and art share the same streets for a few days each autumn. Durga Puja has not erased caste or commerce, but it shows how a society can hold the sacred and the secular in one public space.

The BJP-led board backed off its plan to standardise Friday sermons after clerics, parties and the chief minister pushed back, calling it interference in religious affairs.

A portrait of D.K. Shivakumar’s rise through the ranks in the Congress, his unyielding loyalty to the party, and his role as the primary strategist countering the BJP in Karnataka.

A year after four protesters were shot dead in Leh, the Centre has yet to share a draft of its offer, and Ladakh’s leaders say distrust is growing.

Census 2027 will include caste enumeration, but by adopting an open-ended structure that may replicate the shortcomings of the doomed 2011 Socio-Economic Caste Census, the exercise may once again produce data that are unusable.

With BJP-ruled States enacting uniform civil codes, it is time to assess them as laboratories of legislative experimentation and ask whether they advance gender equality and protect individual autonomy in marriage and property rights.

CBT can reduce risks associated with printing and logistics, but it introduces new vulnerabilities like hacking. With the NTA’s institutional weaknesses and NEET-UG’s scale, a shift to CBT may compromise fairness without guaranteeing better security.

Vedanta’s push for bauxite mining in Odisha’s Niyamgiri Hill appears to be gathering momentum, with the State government’s backing. But claims that local communities have approved the project appear dubious at best.

Pune’s 11-day sit-in ended with the MPSC chairman on leave. With a campus elections panel and a BMC fellowship, the BJP appears to be trying a new approach to young protesters.

Released in the centenary year of Fidel Castro’s birth, Cuba After Castro follows a president born after 1959 and a generation that inherited the Revolution.

When voters begin to feel electoral outcomes are predetermined, participation risks losing its meaning. It would be a cardinal mistake to consider the current moment of electoral breakdown as anything less than the active sabotage of the republic.

Once viewed as a symbol of dynastic politics, Rahul Gandhi has travelled a long and arduous road to become an opposition leader of considerable heft against a powerful government, a feat few in his own party can boast of.

Delhi Police’s unpunished brutality has its roots in a colonial, casteist, and masculinist institutional culture that Indian cinema’s heroic cop has taught the public to applaud, making genuine reform as much a cultural critique as a legal one.

At Muse Music’s Jaipur retreat, Hindustani masters stayed steadfast to their genre while Carnatic experimenters and practitioners of Sufi pop embraced the non-conformist and entertained the nouveau patron.

Protests against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar follow the precedent of the July agitation that ousted Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan. His removal would be read as admitting the opposition’s charge, and protesters vow to continue.

First-year M.Sc student Najeeb Ahmed went missing from JNU on October 15, 2016. A decade on, an excerpt from Nilanjana Bhowmick’s Why The World Needs Angry Women follows his mother Fatima Nafees’s fight for answers.

Dorothy places a trans woman’s desire, identity, and capacity for love at the centre of a romance, challenging decades of stereotypical representation of transgender persons in Tamil cinema.

The UDF government’s plan to open up plantation land for tourism and industry carries the name of a demand from Adivasi and Dalit movements but leaves out the land they were promised.