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Jammu and Kashmir had the highest number of arrests between 2019 and 2023 under the #UAPA among the states and Union Territories at 3,662. However, it had only 23 convictions.

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*Correction: Hindutva was always...

The true face of this country is out in the open for everyone to see. Hindutva always this pathetic, social media just laid it bare.

The lesser evil

‘The public’ generally won’t react to any political event if no one is making an issue out of it.

The idea/intention behind Claude AI might be good, but the AI chatbot itself is shittiest. It makes so many simple, mundane mistakes.

I tried listening to this Piers Morgan and Tucker Carlson interview. And for the whole time Tucker Carlson's contention was I'am entitled to hate you but you can't hate me back.

This is for politically prioritising religion over basic needs.

Except for governmental accountability, the judiciary will ask everyone to come up with an unsearchable solution.

In UP, BLOs are being asked to delete the names of Samajwadi voters. The incident came to light when a BLO committed suicide as a result of pressure exerted by senior officers.

Field Notes: Where A Knock On The Door Makes Muslim Families Freeze MASRAT NABI

"Aap kaun?"

The first thing I learned in Batla House was this: people here freeze when they hear a knock at the door. The first instinct is fear. Masrat Nabi’s #fieldnotes on the mental strain & emotional toll wrought by the demolition of Muslim homes

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So much happens and the coward leading this country doesn't have the gall to name China.

Today, on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, Indians must recognise that violence doesn't become less real within marriage it becomes more dangerous, precisely because law and society refuse to see it.

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Karan Babbar writes

'Centuries-old wounds are being healed' as the PM of a supposedly secular state hoists a religious flag on a temple built at the site of a national hate crime in which his party participated, and for which no one was held accountable by the nation that existed before our current defacto ethnostate.

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Uranium Found in Breast Milk in Several Bihar Districts, Study Shows. Report by NDTV

Yep, don't be surprised if we Biharis start spitting laser rays.

#InPics | At India Gate in New Delhi, people protested against the capital’s worsening air quality on Sunday. Demonstrators raised slogans demanding action, while police and security personnel detained several protesters.

Photos show the daily struggle to breathe in New Delhi's dense winter smog Photos show the daily struggle to breathe in New Delhi's dense winter smog

Photos show the daily struggle to breathe in New Delhi's dense winter smog

Somewhere, someone said 9 lives of Nitish Kumar. Of course, the allegory did not age well.

“I own all the blame for the election results,” Prashant Kishor said to the media and apologized for the debacle.

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#PrashantKishor #janSuraaj

Replug | In the post-Babri era, all the parties active in the state seemed to enter a tacit pact not to bring up the #bhagalpur riots. So the violence of 1989 seemed to fade from the larger politics of the state and beyond.

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✍Ipsita Chakravarty

A Joint Statement from India's Independent Filmmakers

As a collective community of filmmakers, writers, producers and artists working across regions, we urge exhibitors, OTT platforms, policymakers and cultural institutions to address this crisis with structural reforms,” they said. “This creates a ‘closed-loop’ ecosystem where independent films are asked to ‘prove’ themselves in theatres while simultaneously being denied theatrical access... We are not demanding exceptional treatment. We are demanding fair access to the right for Indian audiences to discover Indian films,”

The coalition outlined five specific requests: guaranteed accessible evening screenings for every independent release, transparent criteria for screen allocation, regular monthly or quarterly indie showcase programming, support from cultural institutions and alternative venues, and streaming acquisition policies independent of theatrical performance metrics.

SIGNED BY: Alankrita Shrivastava Aditya Kripalani Arati Kadav Kanu Behl Ruchi Narain Raam Reddy Honey Trehan Leena Yadav Dibakar Das Roy Karan Talwar Megha Ramaswamy Karan Tejpal Devashish Makhija Bauddhayan Mukherji Shonali Bose Nandita Das Karan Gour Dominic Megam Sangma Aditya Vikram Sengupta Bhaskar Hazarika Haobam Paban Kumar Tanuja Chandra Descriptive alt text Anuparna Roy Varun Grover Diwa Shah Gurvinder Singh Hardik mehta Sarvnik Kaur Q Shlok Sharma Vasan Bala Shaunak Sen Ajitpal Singh Rahat Mahajan Ronny Sen Aamir Bashir Safdar Rahman Prateek Vats Akshay Indikar Ashim Ahluwalia Pradip Kurbah Sharukhkhan Chavada Payal Kapadia Rima Das Chaitanya Tamhane Sumit Purohit

Kanu Behl (director of Agra) today shared a joint statement from many Indian indie filmmakers about how access to independent films is actively suppressed in India. Great to see them speaking out; the PVR-Inox monopoly has been terrible for distribution, and the OTT platforms aren't much better. 📽️

The world's largest democracy. Or should I just say, a parody account of democracy.

A crowd sourced list of indie bookshops in India 😍

India’s Quiet Rollout Of A New ‘Clean’ Fuel Bypasses The Law, Hobbles Vehicles, Impacts Environment & Food Supply India’s hasty switch to E20 petrol—fuel with 20% ethanol—five years ahead of schedule was hailed as an environmental milestone, but it came through government orders, not law. The policy forces millio...

Producing 1 litre of ethanol from sugarcane uses about 2,860 litres of water. Maintaining #India’s #E20 petrol blend will require 10 billion litres of ethanol annually, adding pressure on water & farmland in over 500 districts, writes Nilotpal Datta

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Interestingly, they lost like Maharashtra.

नीतीश जी के पलटने के सारे रास्ते बंद हो गए। भाजपा ने उन्हे चारों ओर से घेर लिया है। #biharassemblyelection2025

Narendra Modi's silence on Zohran Mamdani’s victory reveals what terrifies Hindutva supporters Zohran Mamdani represents everything whose existence the Hindu Right has spent decades trying to deny.

Modi's silence on Mamdani’s victory reveals what terrifies Hindutva supporters. Young, progressive, interfaith, anti-establishment and unafraid, Zohran represents everything whose existence the Hindu Right has spent decades trying to deny.

I write in The Caravan

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Just a reminder that my new book on Indian Parallel Cinema was published earlier this year. If anyone is interested in reviewing for any film publication outlets, etc. then please do get in touch; I can share/email a copy for review.