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CJI Surya Kant's "Cockroach" Remarks and the Need for Judicial Restraint
11+ hour, 11+ min ago (218+ words) Judges, like all public officials, can lose patience in court. Indian courtrooms are often tense spaces filled with delays, professional rivalries, frivolous petitions, and occasionally outright misconduct. Senior judges also witness the darker side of public discourse every day, online…...
Inside Arunachal's Polygamy Problem - Part 2
2+ day, 2+ hour ago (281+ words) In Part 2 of the story on polygamy among tribal communities in Arunachal Pradesh, Nada Nampi, now an advocate, speaks about the disturbing impact this practice has on women, children, families, and society at large. When she met her husband, who…...
Muslim Gig Workers: His Name Was Bad for Business, So He Buried It
5+ day, 6+ hour ago (950+ words) A bike rider appeared on my app as "Bittu Bittu." I asked for his real name, and he said it was Salman Mohammad. He explained it in the flat tone of someone speaking from experience. Displaying his Muslim identity, he…...
Why Kerala Rejected Communist Rule After a Decade
6+ day, 7+ hour ago (876+ words) Newsreel Asia Why Kerala Rejected Communist Rule After a Decade The Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) has won 102 seats in Kerala's 140-member Assembly, ending 10 years of Left Democratic Front (LDF) government. The defeat of the LDF also means that no…...
Tamil Nadu Didn't Vote for Vijay Simply Because He's a Celebrity
1+ week, 14+ hour ago (382+ words) By Ganesh Rajaraman and Vishal Arora Vijay is one of several prominent political figures in Tamil Nadu with a background in commercial films, including M. G. Ramachandran (MGR), M. Karunanidhi, J. Jayalalithaa and Vijayakanth. None of them was elected merely because they were admired…...
Why West Bengal and Assam Election Results Are Being Viewed With Suspicion
1+ week, 3+ day ago (253+ words) From the Editor's Desk SIR in West Bengal Scroll's constituency-level analysis found that in 105 assembly seats won by the BJP, the number of deleted voters exceeded the party's margin of victory. These 105 seats constituted roughly half of the BJP's final…...
How Journalists Can Protect Themselves Against a Global Surveillance Industry
1+ week, 5+ day ago (594+ words) From the Editor's Desk The threats'the report documents'range from software that breaks silently into a phone without the journalist clicking anything, to devices planted near protests that sweep up the identities of everyone present, to spyware installed on a phone…...
Press Freedom Situation in India "Very Serious: Reporters Without Borders
1+ week, 6+ day ago (545+ words) From the Editor's Desk India has ranked 157th out of 180 countries and territories in the 2026 World Press Freedom Index, published by Reporters Without Borders, or RSF, which rated the country's press freedom situation as "Very Serious," the highest level of threat…...
Why State Has Monopoly Over Legitimate Violence
3+ week, 2+ day ago (204+ words) Newsreel Asia Why State Has Monopoly Over Legitimate Violence Why do we go to the police instead of taking revenge ourselves? Why does the court decide disputes instead of families settling them through force? The answer lies in the political…...
Is Heavy Central Forces Deployment in West Bengal Election Justified?
3+ week, 6+ day ago (229+ words) From the Editor's Desk The Commission has defended the concentration of forces partly by citing the decision to conduct polling in two phases rather than several rounds, which it argues requires more personnel at any given time. It has also…...