The first ‘Mood of the Nation’ poll of 2024 rings alarm bells on deep economic anxiety. This is borne out by the latest RBI consumer confidence survey.

India’s highest award to L.K. Advani and Karpoori Thakur, are a refresher course on India’s political history and its principal challenge.

The home minister and prime minister must explain why they are AWOL from the House after the security breach. December 18, when record number of MPs were suspended, was the 22nd anniversary of Advani as home minister making a statement on the 2001 parliament attack.

The “central government” wants to drag independent news into a censor board framework. No independent regulation is proposed. The government is everywhere and in control. The dubious ‘3-tier’ regulatory structure proposed is recycled out of IT Rules 2021, which has been stayed by two high courts.

Of the four states for which we saw results on Sunday, three states threw out their governments.

The 'missing revolution' is reason enough to interrogate the fizz and the fury behind people pouring onto the streets. It is time to ask some tough questions about why so little changed, if there was so much heat and noise.

Now, everyone who thinks is a suspect. The aim is also to destroy the juridical person in citizens they want to put away, so they are tried outside the normal penal system, with no rights.

It is wrong to compare this repression to the Emergency in 1975, historian Gyan Prakash said. This is accompanied by spreading poison in society and an attempt to remake India in the shadow of a cult.

The new data protection Bill, IT Rules, internet shutdowns and poor cybersecurity record seen together are ominous. The citizen, not government and Big Tech, should be at the centre of a healthy digital ecosystem.

Dr Hussain was the kind of man, that if he himself were to read (or edit) this obituary, he would flinch at the mention of his generosity as a doctor or friend. Good deeds were to be done, he believed, not to be remembered or recounted.

Who will it be uniform for? The chronology is clear as Hindus would want out too. The BJP realises this and hence, there is no UCC draft being made available, just hot air.

The Gita Press was and is waging a battle in sharp contrast to what Gandhi was trying to do with respect to Hinduism in modern-day India.

Meredith Whittaker tells Seema Chishti of 'The Wire' in an interview that Signal would pushback India’s controversial IT Rules, adding that governments around the world, including India, are trying to break the messaging app's encryption.

Whittaker spoke to The Wire in San Jose in Costa Rica at RightsCon. She said AI can and must be regulated. She added that Big Tech, which is speaking of AI in apocalyptic terms, is trying to distract from the pressing issues that need attention. The only thing intelligent in ‘AI’ is human labour that goes into it.

An unofficial cricket tour by Australia at the invitation of the then-Maharaja of Patiala is the subject of a new book by scholar Megan Ponsford. It reveals little-known details of how India was in 1935, restless, unequal, but also playing cricket and bowling googlies, not sure if it will be free of the Raj in just 12 years.

The Congress has trumped the BJP in a win reminiscent of Delhi in 2015 and West Bengal in 2020 – when the Modi-Shah heat was pushed right back by single parties. But it is not as if all is well suddenly with democracy in India. 

The actor and director speaks on how changes in how we dream and set goals have meant the disappearance of certain people from mainstream cinema.

They say that the BJP government likes to quote Gandhi abroad and promote Godse at home. This act gets increasingly difficult now.

When Arvind Kejriwal left a recent meeting with farmers in a huff, he should not have been surprised at their concern for eroding federalism.

Claudia Webbe, the Labour MP who was convicted by a court of harassment, has vowed to fight the verdict and stood her ground.