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From Cambridge to Indian campuses, a similar playbook hounds the marginalised

Early this year, we were in Manchester to attend the British Sociological Association’s 75th annual conference. Sitting among hundreds of academics, we were deeply intrigued by the title of Professor Jason Arday, the former Cambridge scholar’s plenary talk – ‘Wanted dead or alive: The playbook’. Arday, with great enthusiasm but…

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Decoding PM CARES Fund audit report: Sitting on thousands of crores, yet only lakhs spent

After a two-year wait, the Government of India has finally released the audit report for the PM CARES Fund. The Prime Minister's Citizen Assistance and Relief in Emergency Situations Fund (PM CARES Fund) currently holds a corpus of Rs 8,452.06 crore.

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पीएम केयर्स फंड पर उठे सवाल: हजारों करोड़ जमा लेकिन खर्च हुए महज कुछ लाख

भारत सरकार ने दो साल के इंतजार के बाद आखिरकार पीएम केयर्स फंड की ऑडिट रिपोर्ट जारी कर दी है. प्रधानमंत्री आपात स्थिति नागरिक सहायता एवं राहत निधि, जिसे पीएम केयर्स फंड के नाम से जाना जाता है, उस फंड में फिलहाल 8452.06 करोड़ रुपये जमा हैं. इसमें से 7846.6…

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Why the racial order remains invisible: Answer is in the machinery that sustains it

If this racialized world order is so pervasive and structurally embedded, why, one may ask, does it remain largely invisible in the global political consciousness? The answer lies in the epistemic machinery that sustains it.

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PM CARES spent just Rs 88 lakh of its Rs 8,452 crore in 2024-25, put 93% in FD

Rs 20,000 annually to every school-going child orphaned by the COVID-19 pandemic — this was one of the major promises made by the Union government as part of the PM CARES Fund. But in the financial year 2024-2025, only a mere Rs 88 lakh was released for this purpose. The…

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The HT editor who stood by his reporter all the way to jail

A few years after independence, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru offered a journalist the post of ambassador to Moscow. He politely declined because he preferred his profession to a government job.

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Land, jobs, tribal quota: The issues forming Goa 2027, and why BJP still starts ahead

As Goa’s coastal landscape settles into a late-onset monsoon and tourist footfall begins to taper, political activity is set to intensify. Leaders of top parties are expected to land in the state for regional events, organisational meetings and, crucially, to assess the ground situation ahead of the Goa assembly elections,…

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दिल्ली सरकार की 90 करोड़ की साइकिल योजना पर सवाल

दिल्ली सरकार ने 31 जुलाई 2026 को सरकारी स्कूलों की कक्षा 9 में पढ़ने वाली छात्राओं के लिए 'विद्या वाहिनी योजना' शुरू की. योजना का उद्देश्य छात्राओं के लिए घर से स्कूल तक आने-जाने की सुविधा को बेहतर बनाना है, ताकि दूरी के कारण उनकी पढ़ाई प्रभावित न हो और…

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WaPo story on Adani: Gujarat cops search journalist Ravi Nair’s residences in Kerala and Delhi

On the afternoon of August 17, 2026, officials from the Gujarat police conducted parallel searches at two homes of journalist Ravi Nair in Kerala and Delhi. They seized two of Ravi’s mobile phones from his residence in Kerala. At Ravi’s Delhi residence, law enforcement officials took his son’s laptop, as…

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The curious case of Delhi’s Zone-O: Demolitions on one side, construction on the other

The Delhi Development Authority and Municipal Corporation of Delhi have repeatedly claimed action against illegal construction in Zone-O, including demolitions. Yet a ground visit to several parts, especially the Yamuna floodplain, revealed construction continuing despite the restrictions.

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ज़ोन-O में अवैध निर्माण का खेल जारी, कार्रवाई के दावे हवाई

दिल्ली में यमुना नदी के बाढ़ क्षेत्र यानी जोन-O में अवैध निर्माण के खिलाफ दिल्ली विकास प्राधिकरण और दिल्ली नगर निगम लगातार कार्रवाई कर रहा है. भवनों का ध्वस्तीकरण भी देखने को मिल रहा है. जोन-O यमुना फ्लड प्लेन का वह इलाका है, जहां निर्माण कार्य पर रोक है. लेकिन…

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Vikram’s Lar Gibbon video and TN Speaker’s anti-abortion speak

In this week’s South Central, hosts Pooja Prasanna and Anisha Sheth first discuss the problem of exotic animals across the world being taken into private custody. They are joined by independent journalists Siddharth Prabhakar and M Rajshekhar.

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Deepak Mhaskey replaces Amit Malviya as BJP IT cell chief

The BJP has handed charge of its national IT cell to Chhattisgarh’s Deepak Mhaskey, ending Amit Malviya’s run of more than 10 years at the head of the party’s digital operations – a decade in which he was the BJP’s loudest voice online and, by some distance, its most fact-checked.

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Independent India needs an independent press

India’s freedom struggle was also a fight for a free press. From Tilak and Gandhi to Ambedkar and Azad, newspapers helped Indians challenge colonial power and shape political thought.

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Rs 1.9 cr a day: BJP govt in MP spent more on publicity than on environment or minority depts

Drive through almost any town in Madhya Pradesh and the state government is impossible to avoid. Hoardings at the chowk. Full pages in the morning paper. Sponsored posts around every government event. Chief Minister Mohan Yadav’s face is on most of them, and not only inside the state. Madhya Pradesh…

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A fake E20 bandh, anchors off air, and a mystery yet to be solved

Through the first week of July, Instagram reels began warning of a ‘Bharat Bandh’. Many were alarmist. Thumbnails urged people “not to step out of home”, said India was “on high alert”, and claimed public services would be disrupted on July 15. The shutdown, they said, was about E20 petrol.

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Why 4 in 10 Indian children go to private schools

Four in 10 Indian schoolchildren were enrolled in private unaided schools in 2025-26, up from 35.4 percent in 2018-19, according to Unified District Information System for Education (UDISE+) data.

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एनएल चर्चा 436: दिल्ली में स्वाइन फ्लू का प्रकोप, संसद में अमित शाह की वापसी और चमोली सुरंग हादसा

एनएल चर्चा के इस अंक में दिल्ली में तेजी से बढ़ते स्वाइन फ्लू (H1N1) के मामले और पिटबुल नस्ल के कुत्तों के हमलों से जुड़ी चिंताओं पर विस्तार से बात हुई. इसके साथ ही संसद के मौजूदा सत्र के दौरान गृह मंत्री अमित शाह और विपक्ष के बीच हुई तीखी…

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Hafta letters: NL investigations, cognitive biases, and independent media

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‘In gloomy 2013, I was spellbound by these characters’: Tracking down the 20-year-olds of a 1967 India

Chapter 1: MIDNIGHT’S GROWN-UPS

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Sumit Sarkar’s unfinished argument with history

Sometime in 2000, I lost my copy of Sumit Sarkar’s Modern India in the Hindu College hostel at Delhi University. It was unfortunate. I remember looking for another copy in the library but without any success. I was somehow in a hurry to finish reading it, so I bought a…

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Brij Bhushan acquittal: What the order leaves open to scrutiny

On August 3, 2026, a Delhi trial court acquitted Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, the former Wrestling Federation of India president, of charges under Sections 354, 354A, and 506(I) of the Indian Penal Code in the sexual harassment case brought by six women wrestlers. Vinod Tomar, the WFI’s former assistant secretary,…

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‘Shadow ban’ fears at NALSAR after BCI seeks inquiry into CJI invite opposition

Following the Bar Council of India’s (BCI) statement that there would be an inquiry against students enrolled at Hyderabad’s National Academy of Legal Studies and Research (NALSAR) University of Law for opposing Chief Justice of India Surya Kant’s invitation at their annual convocation, NALSAR students expressed concern about how this…

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‘Genuine’ vs ‘political’: The social media campaign pitting Ranchi protests against CJP

As Jharkhand’s student protest against alleged irregularities in the Jharkhand Public Service Commission (JPSC) and Jharkhand Staff Selection Commission (JSSC) builds momentum in Ranchi, sections on social media have tried to cast it as the ‘genuine’ counterpart to the Cockroach Janta Party-led protest at Delhi's Jantar Mantar, the one ‘without…

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A day inside a Delhi SIR camp: Forms, confusion and long days

Delhi is currently undergoing the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls, with the Election Commission extending the deadline to submit forms to August 17. Booth Level Officers are handling everything from distributing and collecting forms to digitising the data. To make the process easier, some local residents have set up…

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