Editorial

The most disturbing aspect of the crisis currently plaguing IIT Bombay is that one of India’s premier institutions appears to be confronting a student’s death as a contest between opposing... Read More

The death of Sahil Wakode at IIT Bombay is undoubtedly a tragic incident. It also raises a difficult question that should not be lost amid the understandable anger on campus:... Read More

Maharashtra is staring at a drought-like crisis in large parts of Marathwada and Vidarbha after a prolonged monsoon dry spell have left the kharif crop withering in the fields. The... Read More

Manoj Jarange-Patil’s retreat from Mumbai after weeks of hunger-strike brinkmanship offers a moment for citizens to question the politics of coercion and perpetual agitation. The activist has given the Maharashtra... Read More

Meta’s handling of child sexual-abuse material has exposed the hollowness of the tech behemoth’s claim to be merely a simple intermediary. A company whose algorithms decide what millions of users... Read More

The reassuring part of the new Unified Payments Interface (UPI) framework is that customers will apparently not be charged for using UPI. The more interesting part is who, then, pays... Read More

For six years, the Disha Salian case has remained trapped in a fog of unanswered questions, disputed narratives and institutional inaction. It appears that the fog is now finally beginning... Read More

Ganeshotsav is at its best when it brings Maharashtra together. For ten days, neighbourhoods become communities and homes become welcoming spaces as devotion spills naturally into the streets. There is... Read More

The continuing campaign to caricature Vinayak Damodar Savarkar says rather more about the impoverishment of India’s political discourse than it does about Savarkar himself. A recent viral video mocking him... Read More

Twenty-five years after September 11th 2001, the most consequential question is what has the world learnt from it. The attacks killed nearly 3,000 people while shattering the illusion of American... Read More