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Mapping the hidden structure of an unaccountable organisation
Politics / Reportage
Mapping the hidden structure of an unaccountable organisation
Amrita Singh
July 2025

Magazine

Kashmir police silences questions as bodies emerge from the Veshaw River
Crime / Reportage
Kashmir police silences questions as bodies emerge from the Veshaw River
Jatinder Kaur Tur
Waste and labour in urban South Asia
Environment / Books
Waste and labour in urban South Asia
Ankush Pal
The commodification of tribal lives in India
Communities / Commentary
The commodification of tribal lives in India
Akash Poyam
A leading astrophysicist on supermassive black holes and her drive to do science 
Science And Technology / Interview
A leading astrophysicist on supermassive black holes and her drive to do science 
Hartosh Singh Bal
Megaprojects in the Northeast cannot make up for decades of neglect
Government / Reportage
Megaprojects in the Northeast cannot make up for decades of neglect
Kimi Colney , Greeshma Kuthar

In the news

Post-Pahalgam, Muslim vendors in Haryana face the brunt of Hindutva mobs
Religion / Reportage
Post-Pahalgam, Muslim vendors in Haryana face the brunt of Hindutva mobs
Shiv Inder Singh
What the Indian media gets wrong about Modi and Trump, and Modi and the world
Politics / Commentary
What the Indian media gets wrong about Modi and Trump, and Modi and the world
Daniel Block
Praful Patel and the fall of Air India
Business / Reportage
Praful Patel and the fall of Air India
Praveen Donthi
The Bodh Gaya protest is a fresh chapter in Buddhist assertion
Religion / Reportage
The Bodh Gaya protest is a fresh chapter in Buddhist assertion
Sunil Kashyap

Web Exclusives

Emergency-era policies and moves to “discipline” the working class
History / Excerpt
Emergency-era policies and moves to “discipline” the working class

This excerpt from the book focusses on changes to the industrial-policy framework after the declaration of the Emergency, including a decrease in controls and regulations, and firms being permitted to produce more than their approved capacity. “These policy measures were complemented by a series of authoritarian steps to ‘discipline’ the organised working class,” Srinath Raghavan writes.

Srinath Raghavan
Jay Shah’s control over the cricketing world
Sports / Excerpt
Jay Shah’s control over the cricketing world
Sharda Ugra
Trump’s diplomacy of the absurd
Politics / Commentary
Trump’s diplomacy of the absurd
Adekeye Adebajo

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Kenya’s invisibilised waste pickers
Environment / Photo Essay
Kenya’s invisibilised waste pickers
Edwin Ndeke
Documenting riverine communities amid Panama’s greatest ever drought
Communities / Photo Essay
Documenting riverine communities amid Panama’s greatest ever drought
Enea Lebrun
Punjab's farmers struggle with the Green Revolution's toxic legacy
Agriculture / Photo Essay
Punjab's farmers struggle with the Green Revolution's toxic legacy
Harsha Vadlamani
Performance art as resistance in Kashmir
Arts / Photo Essay
Performance art as resistance in Kashmir
Shahid Tantray

Most Read

How nine official inquiries obscured the truth of the 1984 anti-Sikh violence
Politics / Reportage
How nine official inquiries obscured the truth of the 1984 anti-Sikh violence
Hartosh Singh Bal
Manmohan Singh at the centre of the storm
Politics / Reportage
Manmohan Singh at the centre of the storm
Vinod K Jose
How upper castes invented a Hindu majority
Religion / Essay
How upper castes invented a Hindu majority
Divya Dwivedi , Shaj Mohan , J Reghu
Adityanath’s reign of terror
Politics / Reportage
Adityanath’s reign of terror
Dhirendra K Jha
How an amoral technocracy powers Modi’s India
Science And Technology / Books
How an amoral technocracy powers Modi’s India
Mila T Samdub

Books

Muslim prisoners’ writings in contemporary India
Communities / Books
Muslim prisoners’ writings in contemporary India
Sharmila Purkayastha
The changing contours of India’s relationship with Israel
Conflict / Books
The changing contours of India’s relationship with Israel
Achin Vanaik
Caste in the campus novel
Literature / Books
Caste in the campus novel
Diya Isha
Scenes from the modern literature of Brahminism
Caste / Books
Scenes from the modern literature of Brahminism
Ashik Kahina
Jotirao Phule and the history of Marathi print culture
Literature / Books
Jotirao Phule and the history of Marathi print culture
Karthik Malli
Chhayavad poetry’s search for ancestors
Literature / Books
Chhayavad poetry’s search for ancestors
Tulika Varma
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