British photographers showed sites of 1857 violence, without people. They erased Indians
A DAG exhibit, on display until 12 October in Delhi, reminds people how photographing is often ‘an act of staging reality’, writes Manisha Mondal.
International watchdogs are flagging India as a top producer of ‘low-quality and fraudulent’ research. Last year, India ranked behind only China and the US, reports Soumya Pillai.
Calls for justice, barbs at Modi as Engineer Rashid roars at 1st J&K rally. ‘Zulm ka badla vote se’
Jailed on terror-funding charges, Baramulla MP is out on interim bail to campaign for assembly polls. His Awami Ittehad Party is expected to queer the pitch for mainstream parties in J&K. Read this report by Neelam Pandey.
How a missing ‘dead body challan’ caused a stir at RG Kar rape-murder hearing in Supreme Court
Bench led by Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud, which is hearing the case suo motu, said that ‘if the document is missing, something is amiss’, reports Bhadra Sinha.
Who really runs India’s policy? The dangerous grip of sarkar-bazaar nexus
Private actors who do not conform to the government’s vision risk having their work discredited or, in some cases, facing criminal charges and being labelled as ‘anti-national’, write Sarthak Shukla and Arun Maira.
Rahul Gandhi is hopelessly delusional. His remark on Sikhs proves it
It is a measure of Rahul Gandhi’s conceit—and of his reflexive contempt for his compatriots—that he believes that a country as various and immense as India can be subordinated to the psychodynamics of his family. Read this piece by Kapil Komireddi.
India keeps making the same foreign policy mistakes. World doesn’t think we’re being moral
India has never been nor is it today as important as New Delhi thinks it is. It is somewhat more disadvantageous today than in the 1950s or even the 1990s, writes Rajesh Rajagopalan.