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How Rowlatt’s word outlived the empire, and love of the land became “jingoism”
Monthly Archives: September, 2026
Politics 
Politics Every Indian town should publish its land balance sheet
India has millions of acres of land that exist inside the boundaries of cities, towns...
Law Can a settlement wipe out a conviction?
What Indian law actually says about compromise and quashing
Law Our courts have stopped asking why
From Ajeet Bharti to Nupur Sharma to Waseem Rizvi, judges look only at what was...
Culture Turn it down: Badrinath is not a concert venue
There are some places where silence is not an absence of sound but itself a...
Media How Hindustan Times selectively framed IIT death data
This week’s news cycle is revolving around the unfortunate suicide of a young student at...
Society Jamui was not ‘moral policing’
What exactly does a girl have to do to be allowed to come home safely?...
Law How Bollywood’s deepfake lawsuits are quietly writing India’s AI law
In the weeks before he sued, a fake version of Anil Kapoor was making the...
Politics Part I: India for sale
The state — intelligence, political money and strategic dependence, 1947–1991
Education Read it before you burn it
India’s student Left wants to roll back the country’s biggest education reform in a generation....
Law Hanging remains the method of execution — for now
In 2017, Senior Advocate Rishi Malhotra approached the Supreme Court challenging the constitutional validity of...
Society The homework the warriors skipped
India’s self-appointed general-category activists intend to demolish a structure built over a century and a...
Society Who speaks for the girl who takes off her hijab?
In the debate about what Indian women should wear, the word “choice” has become a...
Politics Why the Kashmiri Pandits won’t stop getting killed in the Valley
In August 2026, a letter began circulating with the kind of detail no distant propagandist...
