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‘Heads they won, tails he lost’: How ‘desi consultancies’ prey on Indian grads in America

Manu rushed through the John F. Kennedy International Airport, hoping to reach the college as soon as possible. He had refused the pick-up offer from the Indian Student Association, thinking he’d take a bus. But, outside the airport, New York overwhelmed him, so he asked a middle-aged American about the…

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South Central 76: TVK’s social media game in Tamil Nadu and anti-SIR debate

In this episode of South Central, hosts Pooja Prasanna and Anisha Sheth first discuss the unprecedented use of social media in Tamil Nadu by Vijay’s TVK and whether it has reshaped politics in the state. They are joined by journalist and translator Kavitha Muralidharan and TNM’s Associate Editor Nandini Chandrasekhar.

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The Cockroaches are restless: Anatomy of a 22-million-strong meme movement

Let’s be clear. The Cockroach Janta Party is not a political party. It started as satire – its founder has said so many times, and he said so again when I spent an hour chatting with him for a Newslaundry interview.

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‘I started a joke…now I get death threats’: Abhijeet Dipke on India’s Cockroach Party

What began as a tweet has snowballed into one of India’s most unexpected political phenomena. Abhijeet Dipke, who spoke to Newslaundry from Boston, is the unlikely founder of the Cockroach Janata Party. Within a week, this satirical movement amassed over a million registered members and about 500,000 signatures on a…

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एनएल चर्चा 424: युवाओं का व्यंग्यात्मक पलटवार 'कॉकरोच जनता पार्टी', इटली में मेलोडी और नॉर्वे में प्रेस की आज़ादी

एनएल चर्चा के इस अंक में देश में जारी व्यंग्यात्मक राजनीतिक अभियान कॉकरोच जनता पार्टी और पीएम मोदी के विदेश दौरे के दौरान उपजे विवादों को लेकर विस्तार से बात हुई.

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Three violations, one fine: NBDSA lets Zee News off easy on anti-Muslim broadcasts

The News Broadcasting & Digital Standards Authority (NBDSA) has fined Zee News Rs 25,000 for forcibly interviewing the mother of a murder accused and found that the channel violated its Code of Ethics related to Good Taste and Decency, and Privacy.

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All rhetoric, no resilience: Why India is still addicted to ‘majboori’

Earlier this month, Prime Minister Narendra Modi asked Indians to rethink some of their habits. Travel abroad less, work from home when possible, reduce unnecessary imports, and buy less gold.

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If Tagore were alive today, he’d be called ‘anti-national’

Without a doubt, nationalism perpetuates an insular view of the world. And demands from the citizen an acceptance of the phrase ‘national interest’ – the constituents of which are, more often than not, a moving target. This notion of nationalism sets itself up as superior in the international arena. Unsurprisingly…

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Hafta 590: The Norway question that shook Modi’s tour and Press Freedom

This week on Hafta, Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande and Anand Vardhan are joined by Suhasini Haidar, Diplomatic Affairs Editor at The Hindu.

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Hey Cockroaches, while you were protesting, Godi-Jeevis were eating Melody ? TV Newsance 343

This week, Indian TV discovered its biggest diplomatic breakthrough: a packet of Melody.

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CJP can endure the meme cycle. But can it articulate what kind of India it’s fighting for?

The Modi government has decided that the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) is a ‘threat’ to national security. Earlier this week, its X handle with approximately 200,000 followers was withheld in India under Section 69(A) of the IT Act after the Intelligence Bureau flagged its content as a national security risk,…

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Hafta letters: Opposition failures, no ‘manels’, and missing Jayashree

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UoH student Mayukh dies by suicide, mob harassment and assault alleged

Mayukh Kundu, a first-year MA student at the University of Hyderabad (UoH), allegedly died by suicide on May 18. His body was found in the Buffalo Lake on campus on the next day, May 19.

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5 years, over 21% rise in preterm birth rate: Delhi’s air is cutting pregnancies short

On the morning of October 13, 2025, Moni woke up to another uncontrollable coughing fit. She reached for water, then more water, hoping the scratch in her throat would settle. It did not.

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Ring of concrete: The seven flyovers that will cost Hyderabad a national park

At dawn, the Indian Grey Hornbill cruises over the Jubilee Hills police checkpost, five to 12 metres above the road, following a flight corridor that hornbills have used for longer than the city has existed. By 2028, if the Hyderabad City Innovative and Transformative Infrastructure (HCITI) project proceeds as tendered,…

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‘Nothing short of a miracle’: How primetime TV lost its mind over a one-rupee toffee

Earlier this week, Prime Minister Modi gifted Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni a packet of Melody toffees. Meloni posted a video. It went viral. And primetime Indian television, in a moment of collective editorial judgment, went what kids these days call “ape s**t”.

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Smaller fruits, lower yield: The climate crisis comes for India’s mango capital

This year, the famed mango orchards of Malihabad in Lucknow are under severe stress. The fruits are smaller than usual, many are dropping prematurely, and growers are reporting a sharp decline in overall production. Farmers and scientists say the culprit is a rapidly changing climate that has disrupted the delicate…

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Meet Helle Lyng, the Norwegian journalist who asked Modi why he avoids the press

Helle Lyng Svendsen, a Norwegian journalist at Dagsavisen, had no idea that a single question directed at Prime Minister Narendra Modi would ignite a storm in India. But she asked anyway: “Prime Minister Modi, why don’t you take some questions from the freest press in the world?”

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Rs 40,000 for more babies? Chandrababu Naidu’s plan is misguided

Chandrababu Naidu wants people in Andhra Pradesh to have more children. Not just one or two, but three or four children.

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HC sentences YouTuber to 6 months in prison after remarks comparing courts to ‘dictatorship’

The Delhi High Court has sentenced YouTuber Gulshan Pahuja to six months in jail and a Rs 2,000 fine for criminal contempt of court, Bar and Bench reported. The court found certain remarks in his videos and during court hearings deeply disrespectful to the judiciary.

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Your favourite viral column might have been written by AI. Now what?

First things first.

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A trail of grief, little accountability: The Marion Biotech story after 68 children deaths

This is the third part of an investigative series examining pharmaceutical companies linked to the deaths of children from contaminated medicines, and the regulatory failures that allowed them to keep operating. It is supported by the Thakur Foundation. The foundation has not exercised any editorial control over the project.

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Hyderabad clash: Two media outlets among 16 X accounts facing police action

The Telangana police on Sunday, May 17, issued notice to 16 ‘X’ (formerly Twitter) handles, including those of Hyderabad-based media outlets like The Siasat Daily and NewsMeter, for allegedly ‘promoting public unrest’ by publishing ‘inflammatory and communal content'.

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Norway’s PM took questions. Modi left Indian envoy to face Norwegian media

On Monday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had just walked off stage without taking a single question from journalists, including one shouted at him by Norwegian commentator Helle Lyng of Dagsavisen. What followed, when MEA Secretary (West) Sibi George and other ministry officials faced the media, was one of the more…

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Election soundbites tell us less than we think. That’s the paradox of the modern state

It has long been a matter of wonder to me how some people, once approached by journalists or surveyors during elections, suddenly begin speaking in the elevated language of public life. In no time they start describing their expectations in soaring terms, in maudlin phrases like “children’s future” and “development”.…

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