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Indian Army soldiers walk along a road near Zojila mountain pass. Logistically, the Army depends heavily on the local population of Ladakh.

Why Ladakh’s unrest disturbs defence experts

Zaid Bin Shabir

A group of NGOs and RTI activists protesting the proposed changes in the RTI (Amendment) Bill, in Thane, Maharashtra, on July 25, 2019.

How the RTI regime was captured

Vacant posts, pliant appointees, and penalties in barely 1.2 per cent of cases—the transparency law at 20 is a shell of its former self.

Saurav Das

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A scrap dealer collecting plastic bottles in New Delhi on September 26, 2025.

India can lead the way on plastic waste

With global negotiations on plastic pollution stalled, the country can show how production control and waste management can align.

Aarti Sachdeva ,Ankur Bisen

A freed Palestinian prisoner is greeted after being released from an Israeli jail as part of a hostage-prisoner swap and a ceasefire deal in Gaza between Hamas and Israel, in Ramallah in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on October 13.

Palestinians hear life again after 737 days of war. Can it last?

Gaza relearns the sounds of survival, but the ceasefire’s durability depends on unresolved questions of disarmament, governance, and accountability.

Iftikhar Gilani

A teacher from Gurukul School of Art in Mumbai completes artwork to pay tribute to Charlie Kirk, who was assassinated on September 10.

POLITICAL POLARISATION

Indian media’s Kirk

Indian media treated the activist’s assassination as a cautionary tale about polarisation, not the partisan battlefield American outlets made it.

Shazia Iqbal on the set of Dhadak 2. By reorienting the gaze and expanding representation, women filmmakers are transforming cinema into a more ethical, inclusive, and imaginative space.

Gender in Cinema

Her lens, new cinema

Women directors are dismantling Bollywood’s male gaze with compassion, formal experimentation, and politics that focus on the marginalised.

Khushboo Srivastav,Mrudul Nile

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Reading and writing kept my spirit unbroken: Anand Teltumbde

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Early exposure to literature helped me in filmmaking: Monjul Baruah

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Sundaram’s final stations

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“It has always been hard to find words to explain my mother’s behaviour. Explaining took so much out of me.”

Understanding my mother’s schizophrenia

At one of Tundurru’s several shrimp farms.

Shrimp meets Trump

Mahatma Gandhi believed that India needed a common language rooted in its soil and for him, that language was Hindustani—a widely spoken blend of Hindi and Urdu, written in both Nagari and Urdu scripts. Here, Gandhi addresses the Constructive Workers Conference on January 26, 1946, at Hindi Prachar Sabha in Chennai.

Mahatma Gandhi’s linguistic lesson

He tried uniting India through Hindustani but pleased no one. His contradictions remind us: language politics hasn’t changed, only the players have.

Maniyammai, who led the Dravidar Kazhagam in the face of all challenges, including the Emergency, with Periyar.

They broke the chains, not the ceiling

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah addressing the gathering during the inauguration of the 69th National School Games-2025 at TRC Stadium, Srinagar, on October 6, 2025.

Kashmir: Omar’s one year in power

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