Stories of dissent, solidarity, and a legacy still in motion.

The recent Tamil Nadu Dalit Women’s Conference held in Chennai highlighted the everyday violence imposed on Dalit women and urged economic empowerment as the biggest leveller.

The View From Here and Hyphen represent an irrepressible impulse in India’s literary cultures to give voice to the human imagination, and reject the silence imposed by authoritarian states.

In Rehmat, Gurvinder Singh looks beyond the wounds, into a history of human bonding.

India leads the world in milk production, but output is concentrated in a handful of States. Expanding chilling infrastructure with solar-powered systems could help underserved regions join the dairy boom.

A novel that won the Assamese Sahitya Akademi Award, a book that unpacks an important conversation around race, colonialism and international relations, and much more.

Adityanath has nurtured the image of being a no-nonsense administrator but continues to employ divisive and polarising rhetoric. With his position in the BJP ecosystem still not secure, his future will hinge on the forthcoming Assembly election.

How and why religious and social customs continue to dictate where women can go, whom they can worship with and how their bodies should be regarded.

Sahil Wakode’s story is eerily similar to other cases of student suicides at IIT Bombay. The common thread is the complaint of caste discrimination.

Montage, the technique that once revolutionised cinema, has now become the very thing chaining the film to itself, shrivelling all its possibilities into one resolved meaning.

A cycle of governance failures, official denials, and attacks on critics is eroding public trust and deepening the Modi government’s crisis of legitimacy. The Election Commission controversy is its latest example.

Two different surveys done a few years ago highlighted the reality of caste-based discrimination that SC/ST students face.

A humanitarian crisis is unfolding in 98 forest hamlets in Tamil Nadu’s Meghamalai hills following the Supreme Court’s eviction order against “encroachers” in a bid to protect the fragile ecology of the Srivilliputhur-Meghamalai Tiger Reserve.

Originally published in 1990, Jean Said Makdisi’s Beirut Fragments asks a question that remains painfully relevant: what happens when political violence becomes part of ordinary life?

At a moment when dissent is reduced to a law-and-order problem, it is worth looking at what makes people willing to protest. India’s history shows movements are born when private emotions become collective political demands.

The UN has become a bloated bureaucracy undermined by big powers and incapable of stopping urgent crises of war and climate change. With initiatives like UN80 only scratching the surface, the next Secretary-General must prepare for serious reform.