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Outside a movie theatre in Mumbai screening The Kerala Story, on May 9, 2023. Films like this one and The Kashmir Files (2022) use different stories but push the same underlying narrative of fear and division. 
SPOTLIGHT

Manufactured fame, manufactured consent

India’s media, film, and digital ecosystem are a culture industry manufacturing consent for authoritarian power. Democracy must resist.
Manoj Kumar Jha
Public Health

Deadly doses

Twenty four children in MP died from spurious cough syrup, revealing systemic failures in India’s health delivery beyond a single tragedy.
Vedaant Lakhera
LIVELIHOODS

Salt of suffering

In Gujarat’s Little Rann of Kutch, Agaria salt farmers toil under the desert sun, eight months a year, with no homes, water, or basic ameneties.
Suchak Patel
MAHARASHTRA

A century of Diwali Ank

More than 400 Diwali magazines still appear each year, carrying forward a tradition that shaped Marathi culture through dissent and reinvention.
Amey Tirodkar
ENVIRONMENT

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

More stories from India

A Hindu mob brandishing swords at Bapunagar, Ahmedabad, in Gujarat, on March 1, 2002.

The Sanatani temper

Modi condemned the attack on the Chief Justice of India, but the anger behind it mirrors the politics his party has long legitimised.
Apoorvanand
“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

Excerpts from “The Silent Dialogues: Childhood, Caregiving, Psychiatry and Becoming” by Dr Kavita Arora.
A cow feeds from an overflowing garbage bin in Raipur, where livestock and humans share the same urban spaces.

The city that mooed back

Raipur has one cow for every 54 people, a reminder that India’s cities, planned for humans alone, keep tripping over the lives they refuse to see.
Isha Riza Khan,Ankush Pal
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

The Chief Minister’s credibility has been dented by his passive image, say political analysts and opposition leaders.
Gowhar Geelani

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