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How India’s courts have handled cases brought by detainees, police
On December 15, protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act broke out in and around Jamia Millia Islamia University. The Delhi police responded by storming the campus, ransacking the library, and brutalising the students. Police and paramilitary forces responded similarly to protests elsewhere, including in Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Bengaluru, and Assam, resulting in a series of […]
Over 2,40,000 homeless, not even 300 night shelters
Rain Baseras not only shelter homeless people, they double up as makeshift recovery wards for patients visiting the capital city’s overcrowded hospitals. But there aren’t nearly enough of them. Delhi struggles to save its rough sleepers from the harsh winter RESHMA LIES in a white tent-like structure. Her stomach is slit open, a bag attached […]
Is this the beginning of the irrelevance of Big Media?
Not just anger towards the government, anti-CAA protesters also voiced their resentment against a section of the media PERHAPS I SHOULD rename this column “Heart-breaking News”. The videos, the news reports in newspapers and on digital news websites, have made it amply clear that the UP government and its police force are going full tilt […]
Bringing to screen the toxicity of sexual harassment
The film and the mini-series trace how Richard Ailes of Fox News was brought down by Gretchen Carlson. Every time a predator is felled, the cause of justice is served “I am not a feminist” Megyn Kelly, played by Charlize Theron, says repeatedly in the film Bombshell, often more to reassure herself that she fits […]
‘It was a great learning process’
Debutants Riva Kishan and Priyaank Sharma talks about their film Sab Kushal Mangal, carrying forward their parents’ legacy and more THIS YEAR’S first new release Sab Kushal Mangal, directed by Karan Vishwanath Kashyap, is set to launch two new actors: Riva Kishan and Priyaank Sharma. While the former is the daughter of Bhojpuri superstar Ravi […]
‘They wanted to teach a lesson in terror’
As right-wing mobs ran riot at JNU on the night of January 5, students allege they were victims of a targeted attack inside the university IN THE middle of a Delhi winter, the temperature at Jawaharlal Nehru University on the evening of January 5 rose dramatically. At around 6 pm that day, a violent mob […]
Caught in crossfire?
The Bijnor police are unable to give consistent versions of the incidents in which two young men were shot – one fatally At Om Raj Singh’s freshly cemented home in Nehtaur in UP’s Bijnor district, family members sat on the dimly-lit verandah. Singh was recovering from injuries in a Meerut hospital. His brother, Rajvir Singh, […]
If Central Vista changes, a valuable heritage will be lost
Redevelopment of the sarkari complex that stretches from India Gate to Rashtrapati Bhawan will make the present sandstone a part of history. An expert has called it a futile and unwanted exercise Exactly 108 years ago, on December 12, 1911 at the coronation of King George V as Emperor of India, he declared, “We have […]