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Three in Four Women Journalists Face Online Violence, With AI Fuelling Threats, Warns UNESCO

November 2, 2025 12:57

UNESCO’s campaign, “CTRL + ALT + MUTE,” aims to counter the rise of AI-facilitated abuse through policy action and advocacy. Illustration: The Wire, with Canva. Nearly three-quarters of women journalists have faced violence online, with artificial intelligence now being used to dangerously amplify threats ranging from deepfakes to doxxing, UNESCO has warned. The UN’s cultural agency […]

Purulia Tribal Family Kills Lone Educated Woman in Household for ‘Being a Witch’

October 25, 2025 18:18

By Madhu Sudan Chatterjee Several members of Padabi Tudu’s family said that they tried to make the attackers see sense, but could not. Authorities also allegedly refused to step in during the final attack. Residents of Chapur village in Bengal’s Jangalmahal district of Purulia on October 20 brutally murdered a woman of their own family […]

Sleeping With Power: How ‘Apolitical’ is the RSS?

October 4, 2025 20:05

By M K Venu Any assessment of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh(RSS) and its 100-year journey cannot possibly ignore its long term symbiotic links with other organisations that parallelly promoted the cause of the Hindutva ideology. A fascinating part of this story is that these prominent parallel organisations promoting Hindutva, such as the Akhil Bharatiya Hindu […]

RSS At 100: Sangh Patiently Accumulated Power Without A Führer, But Modi Cult May Be Its Undoing

October 2, 2025 13:15

Leading political scientist Christophe Jaffrelot is in conversation with Siddharth Varadarajan of The Wire about the origins and foundational thinking of the Sangh. The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh turned 100 on September 27, 2025. What has its journey as a political organisation involved over the past century, as it moved from being on the margins of […]

Politic | Vote-Chori: Democracies Need Credible Solutions, Not Trickery and Excuses

September 21, 2025 15:07

That there is no unity of purpose between the prime minister, the CEC and the LoP on vital questions linked to the future of democracy is a national misfortune. Illustration: Pariplab Chakraborty What’s the real threat: a cry to protect democracy, or an act to destroy it? Democracy is hollowed out when constitutional principles are […]

‘Bhakti’ for Modi at 75: From Newspaper Ads to Prayers and Coordinated Social Media Posts

September 18, 2025 19:42

Ambedkar had once warned against hero worship as a ‘sure road to degradation and to eventual dictatorship’, but Modi’s birthday blitzkrieg paid no heed to such caution as it took an unprecedented scale. “The God Almighty himself has sent Modiji as an avatar purush to lead our motherland to become the greatest nation on earth”; “It is […]

Muslim Teen’s Suicide Spotlights Gujarat’s Controversial Disturbed Areas Act

September 17, 2025 15:22

“It has been almost a month since my sister killed herself,” Rifat Jahan said, sitting in her home in Ahmedabad’s Gomtipur. On August 9, Rifat’s 15-year-old sister Saniya Ansari ended her own life, leaving behind a suicide note, a devastated family and questions about the Disturbed Areas Act. The Ansari family’s purchase of a house […]

Supreme Court Stays Key Provisions Of Controversial Waqf Act

September 15, 2025 13:42

The Supreme Court on Monday (September 15) morning has put a stay on key provisions of the controversial Waqf (Amendment) Act 2025. According to LiveLaw, the bench of Chief Justice B.R. Gavai and Justice A.G. Masih passed these orders: 1. The provision in Section 3(1)(r) that a person should be a practitioner of Islam for five […]

Nadda Says BJP World’s Largest Party At 140 Million, Credits Modi, Not RSS

September 15, 2025 12:21

The Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) national president J.P. Nadda on September 14, Sunday said that the BJP, with “14 crore” (140 million) members is now as the world’s largest political party. The BJP has been unable to find a successor to party president Nadda for a year and a half. His term as party president […]

Nearly 90,000 Diamond Workers Seek Help For Children’s Education in Gujarat, Only 170 Get Govt Aid: Report

September 14, 2025 20:04

While the Gujarat government has received 89,948 applications for educational aid from diamond workers, it has so far provided financial assistance to only 170 children for the school fees of only 170 children, data provided to the State legislature on Tuesday (September 9) has revealed. Congress MLA Tushar Amarsinh Chaudhary had asked a question on […]

Gujarat Connection Of Company Helming Construction Of New MPs’ Residential Complex In Delhi

August 31, 2025 20:41

Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated a new residential complex for Members of Parliament (MPs) on New Delhi’s prime avenue, Baba Kadak Singh Marg. News reports highlighted that the residential complex has four towers, named after four Indian rivers; each tower features 25 storeys and has a total of 184 flats meant for the MPs. “…these […]

NDA Parliamentary Party Meet A Signal To RSS That Modi Still Enjoys Support Outside Sangh Parivar

August 6, 2025 11:48

The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) held a meeting in Parliament House on the morning of Tuesday (August 5), a date which has grave historical recall because in 2019 the Government of India revoked the special status, or autonomy, granted under Article 370 of the Indian constitution to Jammu and Kashmir. This day is also a […]

COVID-19 Is Five Years Old But for ‘Long Haulers’, The Problems Are As Fresh As Ever

July 1, 2025 14:22

Pragya, in her late 20s, has shaved her head. Not because she wanted to, nor because she has the kind of chronic illness one would usually associate with baldness. Her fatigue was the cause – combing her hair every day took so much out of her that she didn’t feel like she could do it […]

Democracy In Retreat: Comparing The Emergency With Modi’s India

June 25, 2025 11:13

Emergency declared by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi – an unprecedented democratic rupture in India’s republican history. Spanning from 1975 to 1977, the Emergency did not merely suspend democratic norms and undermine constitutionalism; it revealed, with brutal clarity, an authoritarian impulse cloaked in constitutional legality. While the immediate trigger was the invalidation of Gandhi’s 1971 election […]

Trump Continues To Insist He Helped Stop India-Pakistan Hostilities

June 19, 2025 13:49

Just hours after Narendra Modi denied claims of American mediation in halting hostilities between India and Pakistan, US President Donald Trump insisted he had “stopped a war” between the South Asian countries – even as he confirmed speaking with the Indian prime minister. Responding to a reporter’s question on his upcoming lunch with Pakistan’s army […]

The Inclusion Of Muslim Leaders In Delegations Shows That When The BJP Needs To Borrow, It Does

June 5, 2025 13:38

The ruling BJP has not a single Muslim representative in parliament, and in the central Cabinet. The politics of the “nationalists” over the last decade especially, both at the centre and in the states they rule has been solidly rooted in Hindu consolidation. Prominent leaders of the party, such as Suvendu Adhikari in West Bengal […]

‘We Want Dates’ Says Opposition as Modi Government Approves Caste Census in Sharp Reversal

May 2, 2025 13:59

Hours after the Union government on Wednesday (April 30) announced that a caste census will be conducted along with the decadal census without providing any timeline for its rollout, leader of opposition in the Lok Sabha and Congress MP Rahul Gandhi said that the party welcomes the move as it has been a long-standing demand. While the […]

India’s Knee-Jerk Responses In Kashmir Against Pakistan Are Dangerous

April 29, 2025 20:59

For as long as my living memory can recall, military presence has been an intrinsic part of Jammu and Kashmir’s landscape. After the 1990 insurgency, every inch of the land was mapped, particularly in the Kashmir region, and military presence became much more dense than it was during my childhood. Unless you moved to the […]

‘Electric Shocks, Genitals Hurt With Pliers’: Ordeal of Two Dalit Rajasthan Teens on Ambedkar Jayanti

April 22, 2025 15:15

Five days after his eighteenth birthday, Abhishek Bhambi found himself pleading before a group of men, who ignored his cries and gave him electric shocks, while the others filmed a video of the act. Just beside Abhishek, his friend Vinod Bhambi, 18, was standing with folded hands and trying to reason with the people in […]

Spike in US visa cancellations leaves Indian students in limbo, AILA Report finds

India Acknowledges F-1 Visa Troubles for Students in US as Lawsuits Mount

April 18, 2025 12:03

“Our embassy and consulates, they are in touch with the students to provide support,” the MEA said. New Delhi: The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) has, for the first time, publicly stated that Indian students facing issues with their F-1 visas have reached out to Indian missions, which are providing them with “support”. The statement came […]

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Three in Four Women Journalists Face Online Violence, With AI Fuelling Threats, Warns UNESCO

Purulia Tribal Family Kills Lone Educated Woman in Household for ‘Being a Witch’

Sleeping With Power: How ‘Apolitical’ is the RSS?

RSS At 100: Sangh Patiently Accumulated Power Without A Führer, But Modi Cult May Be Its Undoing

Politic | Vote-Chori: Democracies Need Credible Solutions, Not Trickery and Excuses

‘Bhakti’ for Modi at 75: From Newspaper Ads to Prayers and Coordinated Social Media Posts

Muslim Teen’s Suicide Spotlights Gujarat’s Controversial Disturbed Areas Act

Supreme Court Stays Key Provisions Of Controversial Waqf Act

Nadda Says BJP World’s Largest Party At 140 Million, Credits Modi, Not RSS

Nearly 90,000 Diamond Workers Seek Help For Children’s Education in Gujarat, Only 170 Get Govt Aid: Report

Gujarat Connection Of Company Helming Construction Of New MPs’ Residential Complex In Delhi

NDA Parliamentary Party Meet A Signal To RSS That Modi Still Enjoys Support Outside Sangh Parivar

COVID-19 Is Five Years Old But for ‘Long Haulers’, The Problems Are As Fresh As Ever

Democracy In Retreat: Comparing The Emergency With Modi’s India

Trump Continues To Insist He Helped Stop India-Pakistan Hostilities

The Inclusion Of Muslim Leaders In Delegations Shows That When The BJP Needs To Borrow, It Does

‘We Want Dates’ Says Opposition as Modi Government Approves Caste Census in Sharp Reversal

India’s Knee-Jerk Responses In Kashmir Against Pakistan Are Dangerous

‘Electric Shocks, Genitals Hurt With Pliers’: Ordeal of Two Dalit Rajasthan Teens on Ambedkar Jayanti

India Acknowledges F-1 Visa Troubles for Students in US as Lawsuits Mount

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