Editors Pick

Had Congress Lost Closely-Fought MLA Seats (1960-2000), India Would’ve Seen 11% More Communal Riots

Congress members of legislative assemblies (MLAs) forestall communal violence in their constituencies due to their reliance on Muslim votes and their multi-ethnic electoral prospects, a study by former Yale political science research scholars said.

There Is a Way to Cut Petrol, Diesel Prices But the Modi Government Isn't Interested

Fuel should be brought under the GST regime and the pro-corporate bias of the revenue mobilisation strategy needs to be corrected.

From A Backbencher In Class To IPS After Four Failures !

During our school and college days we have all been made to believe that Civil Service aspirations like IAS and IPS are for the best and brightest students in the class.

The Curious Case of Sanjiv Bhatt’s Sacking & 2002 Godhra Riots

There are some stories in Gujarat which don’t require any special investigation. Just a cursory look at the facts is sufficient.

Ehsan Jafri's daughter Nishrin writes an open letter to Shweta Sanjiv Bhatt

Dear Shweta Sanjiv Bhatt,

Fighting for Justice and human rights in India is a long and lonely battle. Once Teesta Setalvad mentioned this in an interview and for days I kept to myself trying to understand the depth of her sentence. I felt this loneliness from day one but I didn’t know how to express myself. So let me tell you how lonely this road that your husband has taken is and how long, lonely and difficult is the road ahead for you, your children and family, just in case you have not figured it out yet.

Once great legacy of Arabs, India reviving ancient underground water channels

One of the great legacies of Arabs and Persians to the world, the Qanat (Arabic for conduit) or Karez (Persian for smaller channels) system of irrigation – which made agriculture and town life possible in areas that would otherwise have been too arid – is now being revived in semi-arid Bidar, Karnataka’s less developed district in India.

The Many Plots To Assassinate Narendra Modi

On 28 August, the Pune Police arrested five activists—the trade-unionist and lawyer Sudha Bharadwaj, the writers Gautam Navlakha and Varavara Rao, the lawyers Arun Ferreira and Vernon Gonsalves—and conducted search raids at the homes of several others.

Why it's important to understand Karunanidhi's fight against Hindi imperialism

It is only because of the politics of Karunanidhi that English TV channels, English textbooks, a whole employment ecology with English as currency, exists in India.

Jailed For Waving A Black Flag At Adityanath, This 23-Year-Old Girl Is The Face Of Dissent In UP

A few hours before Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed a forum of investors in the city last month, police constables surrounded Pooja Shukla as she stepped out of her friend's house in Ismailganj.

Shukla, a 23-year-old activist with the Samajwadi Party (SP), said the policemen and women dragged her to a waiting jeep, snatched her phone, drove her around the city for five hours and only let her go when she pretended to be ill. Another group from the police, she said, raided her house in Sarojini Nagar, where she lives with her parents.

Viral Video: False testimony by journalist that Umar Khalid was not attacked

In the afternoon of August 13, reports emerged from New Delhi that JNU student leader Umar Khalid was shot at by an unknown assailant. According to these reports, the incident took place outside the Constitution Club of India. Khalid escaped unhurt while the assailant fled the spot after discarding the weapon.