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Monthly Archives: September, 2026

Page 112: How Khudiram became a terrorist in a Bengal schoolbook 

How Rowlatt's word outlived the empire, and love of the land became “jingoism”

Every Indian town should publish its land balance sheet

India has millions of acres of land that exist inside the boundaries of cities,...

Can a settlement wipe out a conviction?

What Indian law actually says about compromise and quashing

Our courts have stopped asking why

From Ajeet Bharti to Nupur Sharma to Waseem Rizvi, judges look only at what was said

Turn it down: Badrinath is not a concert venue

There are some places where silence is not an absence of sound but itself...

How Hindustan Times selectively framed IIT death data

This week’s news cycle is revolving around the unfortunate suicide of a young student...

Jamui was not ‘moral policing’

What exactly does a girl have to do to be allowed to come home...

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...

India for sale

The state — intelligence, political money and strategic dependence, 1947–1991

Read it before you burn it

India’s student Left wants to roll back the country’s biggest education reform in a generation. Its case does not survive contact with the document.

Hanging remains the method of execution — for now

In 2017, Senior Advocate Rishi Malhotra approached the Supreme Court challenging the constitutional validity...

Hashtag Kshatriyas: a beginner’s guide to losing slowly

India's self-appointed general-category activists intend to demolish a structure built over a century and...

Who speaks for the girl who takes off her hijab?

In the debate about what Indian women should wear, the word "choice" has become...

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...