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Sylvia Karpagam’s ‘The Meat of the Matter’ calls for freeing India’s plate from prejudice

In modern India, the kitchen has become a battlefield for state-sanctioned majoritarianism. While the right to safe, nutritious food is a fundamental prerequisite for human survival, public policy under the current dispensation has weaponised dietary habits to enforce social hierarchies. From the institutional exclusion of eggs in school midday meals…

Newslaundry · Sep 3

Out on morning walk, ex-bureaucrat picked up, released after 12 hours

Former additional secretary Ashish Joshi was taken away by two policemen in plainclothes from Delhi’s Nehru Park on Wednesday morning and released roughly 12 hours later – a day in which his family and his friends said they never were told who had picked him up or where he had…

Newslaundry · Sep 2

From a school canteen row to street violence: How Ahmedabad’s Malala controversy escalated

“They beat us with iron and wooden rods. They hit my head, back and elbow even though we were trying to have a dialogue with them,” said Savan Zalariya, a theatre artiste and professor of political theatre at Ahmedabad University, about a book-reading session disrupted on August 27.

Newslaundry · Sep 2

NCLT larger bench stays Subhash Chandra insolvency verdict

A larger, five-member bench of the National Company Law Tribunal has put the August 25 ruling of a smaller tribunal bench on hold – a decision that had come out of the insolvency proceedings against Zee Group founder Subhash Chandra, according to Bar and Bench.

Newslaundry · Sep 1

Smoking is a ‘choice’ for men, but a ‘character flaw’ for women?

A boy smokes. A girl smokes. Why do we judge them differently?

Newslaundry · Sep 1

Adityanath says UP has 7 months of sugar. Here’s what that calculation misses

On August 25, at an event in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath told an audience that there was no sugar crisis in the state. UP consumes about four lakh tonnes of sugar a month. It had about 28 lakh tonnes in stock. Divide the second by the first…

Newslaundry · Aug 31

From Okhla to Badarpur: 5 Delhi seats that lost over 40% of their 2025 electorate

All comparisons between deleted names and votes cast in 2025 are size comparisons only, not indications of overlap between the two groups.

Newslaundry · Aug 31

South Central 90: India’s new anti-reservation drama, CM Vijay’s Parandur decision

Was scrapping the Parandur airport project the right call for Chennai, or could the Vijay government’s decision hurt Tamil Nadu’s industrial ambitions?

Newslaundry · Aug 31

What does a 13% rainfall deficit mean for India’s kharif crop?

The threat of a strong El Niño still looming, rainfall in this year’s monsoon season varied by the month. June was one of the driest in India’s history, closing at a 35% deficit whereas July was 1% above normal. This ‘normal’ rainfall in July was largely driven by Central India…

Newslaundry · Aug 31

The captain cricket won’t let go

There was something appropriate about the setting.

Newslaundry · Aug 31