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Singing Faiz's 'Hum Dekhenge' is 'Sedition': Nagpur Police Book Organisers of Vira Sathidar Memorial

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Sukanya Shantha

Adding Colour to The Whites

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Parth Pandya

Professor Mahmudabad’s Arrest Raises Critical Questions on Free Speech, Liberty and the Law

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Mekhala Saran

US Targets Indian Travel Agents with Visa Bans as Part of Immigration Policy

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The Wire Staff

BJP Jails Professor for Exposing its Hypocrisy

Listen to this article: When Professor Ali Khan Mahmudabad posted on Facebook praising the optics of women soldiers briefing the media on Operation...

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Prem Panicker

Ali Khan Mahmudabad's Arrest Reveals the Political Capture of Women's Rights in India

Listen to this article: The arrest of Ashoka University professor Ali Khan Mahmudabad in May 2025, following a social media post deemed...

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Vertika Mani

'Gujarat Samachar' Co-Owner Bahubali Shah's Arrest and Bail: Here's What Happened

Listen to this article: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) arrested Bahubali Shah, the managing director and owner of Gujarat Samachar – one of...

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The Wire Staff

India Imposes Port Restrictions on Bangladeshi Goods

Listen to this article: New Delhi: India on Saturday (May 18) announced port restrictions on the import of certain goods from Bangladesh with...

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The Wire Staff

Ashoka Prof Arrested For ‘Endangering Sovereignty’ Over Post Criticising Jingoism, To Be Produced in Haryana Court

Listen to this article: New Delhi: Haryana police on Sunday (May 18) arrested Ashoka University professor Ali Khan Mahmudabad under charges that...

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Omar Rashid

India Needs a Strategic Reset After Pahalgam Terror Attack, Operation Sindoor

Listen to this article: The heinous massacre of 26 civilians at Pahalgam on April 22, 2025 was the largest civilian casualties in a terrorist...

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Prasenjit Bose

‘Attack on Individual Freedom’: Doda Police Detains VPN Users, Legal Experts Slam Move

Listen to this article: Srinagar: Free speech campaigners and legal experts have slammed the Jammu and Kashmir administration for using a...

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Jehangir Ali

‘Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning’ Is an Operatic and Reverential, but Bloated Farewell

Listen to this article: It says something about a star, when a close-up of their weathered face becomes the multiplex poster of the last two films...

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Tatsam Mukherjee

The Thousands of Wells of Mumbai Serve its People, Birds and Animals

Listen to this article: “ Like a poem, she wanted to live with water, near the well, and, if she could have mustered the courage, directly in the...

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Mustansir Dalvi

India, Pakistan and The Day After

Listen to this article: Are we now so casual about the dangers of nuclear weapons that we do not realise what we have escaped from with the...

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C. Rammanohar Reddy

Full Text | Ashoka University Professor Ali Mahmudabad's Posts that Haryana Police Calls ‘Sedition’

Listen to this article: This is the full text of Ali Mahmudabad’s posts for which he has been arrested under charges that point to sedition. May 8,...

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Ali Khan Mahmudabad

Govt Lists Seven MPs to Lead All-Party Delegations Abroad for Outreach on India’s Position on Terror

New Delhi: The Union government on Saturday (May 17) announced that seven all-party delegations are set to go abroad to “project India’s national...

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Sravasti Dasgupta

'Completed' on Paper, But Missing in Key Border Areas: J&K Authorities Probe Centre-Funded Bunker Project

Listen to this article: Srinagar: Authorities are probing allegations of financial irregularities in the centrally-sponsored underground bunker...

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Jehangir Ali

Anchored in an Unsustainable Plan, Modi’s Speech Presented Old Ideas as New, Bold Thinking

It was an angry drill sergeant we heard on Monday night as Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the nation at the cessation of recent hostilities...

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Anand K. Sahay

Backstory | India’s Media Betrayed the Country In a Time of War, Here’s How

It has been almost a month since the Pahalgam attack on Indian tourists and ten days since the Indian military struck nine bases in Pakistan,...

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Pamela Philipose

Watch | 39 Assaults, 19 Acts of Vandalism, 42 Incidents of Harassment Against Muslims Since Pahalgam: Report

New Delhi: A report by the Association for Protection of Civil Rights (APCR) reveals that in the aftermath of the Pahalgam terror attack, a total...

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Minal Saeed Khan

India and China: Two Contrasting Models of Dealing With Trump’s US

Listen to this article: On Buddha Purnima, a temporary truce between US and China on their trade war was announced. On the same day, prime minister...

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Arun Kumar

'Anti-India', Terror and Air Guns: How the Grounds for a Kerala Journalist's Detention Have Shifted Rapidly

Listen to this article: New Delhi: On May 7, the Nagpur police arrested 26-year-old Kerala-based journalist Rejaz M. Sheeba Sydeek for opposing the...

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Sukanya Shantha

Why Keir Starmer Says Britain is Becoming ‘A Nation of Strangers’

Listen to this article: There is no greater dilemma for a liberal democracy than how it regulates immigration. The issue has been weaponised by the...

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Andrew Whitehead

Survey Shows Push For Caste Census Reflects Broad Public Demand, Not Limited to Party Agendas

Listen to this article: On April 30, the Modi government made a landmark announcement: it would conduct a nationwide caste census to advance social...

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Ashish Ranjan And Atul Kumar Pandey

Two Forests

Listen to this article: A silent thankfulness accompanied my footsteps, for the creation of this enormous forest, the trails, signage and the...

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Geetika Jain

Pakistan’s Slick US Strategy: It’s Deja Vu All Over Again

Chandigarh: For decades, Pakistan has been a savvy punter in the regional strategic, diplomatic and political stakes, efficiently managing a...

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Rahul Bedi

'They Would Have Abused Vyomika Singh Too if They Knew She was a Dalit': Senior SP Leader's Dig at BJP

Listen to this article: New Delhi: On the backfoot after one of its ministers in Madhya Pradesh made communally-laced derogatory remarks about...

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Omar Rashid

TMC Silent as Anti-War Efforts Are Targeted in Bengal

Listen to this article: A wave of ultra-nationalist sentiment, amplified by right-wing activists and mainstream television media, is sweeping...

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Joydeep Sarkar

MP: How Media Trial of a Rape Case in Bhopal Fuelled Communal Hate

Listen to this article: Bhopal: ‘Bhopal mein love jihad ka The Kerala Story pattern’ ( The Kerala Story pattern of love jihad in Bhopal) ‘Love...

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Huneza Khan

‘Thrown Into the Sea’: How India Allegedly Deported 38 Rohingya Refugees Without Due Process

Listen to this article: “My brother came to India after our village was burned. He walked for days with wounds on his legs and buried our parents...

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Pranay Roy

High-Stakes Nuclear Poker: How Pakistan’s Deterrent Still Checks India—Even After Operation Sindoor

Listen to this article: Chandigarh: In the smoke-filled casinos of global geopolitics, where nations bluff, raise and fold in their poker hands...

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Rahul Bedi

Humour, Scepticism and the Realities of the Familial in Banu Mushtaq's 'Heart Lamp'

Listen to this article: The diversity of the seething everyday life of certain classes of southern Indian Muslims is showcased in swift, confident...

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Nikhil Govind

Jaishankar Speaks to Taliban Counterpart, Welcomes Kabul's Rejection of Pak Claims During Conflict

Listen to this article: New Delhi: In the first ministerial level-contact between India and the Taliban government, external affairs minister S....

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The Wire Staff

'Ceasefire Must Be the First Step': Over 1,000 Feminists from India and Pakistan Call for Dialogue

Listen to this article: New Delhi: A dozen organisations from India and Pakistan, and nearly 1,000 people, have issued a statement calling for...

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The Wire Staff

Pollution Markets May Hold Promise but Regulatory Mechanisms Remain Crucial in India

Listen to this article: Bengaluru: Imagine you have a factory that bellows out far more smoke and other poisonous fumes into the air than is...

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Aathira Perinchery

Capturing Waqf Property a Great Sin: How Gadkari and Fadnavis Championed th eWaqf Act in 2007

The Waqf Act amendments may be under challenge in the Supreme Court, with the Bharatiya Janata Party defending its move, but in 2007, BJP leaders...

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Zeeshan Kaskar

In India’s TV War Rooms, the ‘Generals’ Were Loud, Facts Optional, and the Enemy Always in Retreat

Listen to this article: When Operation Sindoor began, India’s television newsrooms went into overdrive. The usual suspects – political party...

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Sanjiv Krishan Sood

‘Nation’s Army Bowing at Modi’s Feet’: BJP Leader Sparks Row With Remarks on Operation Sindoor

Listen to this article: New Delhi: In his eagerness to credit Prime Minister Narendra Modi for Operation Sindoor launched by Indian armed forces...

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Omar Rashid