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Democracy Wall at Jain University reserves a right to free speech, even if it offends you

The second edition of ThePrint’s Democracy Wall at Bangalore’s Jain University reminds us that we are now in need of crafting free spaces of debate in an era of censorship, hyper-surveillance and intolerance. 

How India realised it was at risk of losing the Siachen glacier to Pakistan

April 1984 saw the Indian Army, supported by the IAF, launch an audacious and preemptive operation to occupy the Saltoro Ridge and dominate the Siachen Glacier. These vignettes are a tribute to that operation.

Why the outcry over the 8-yr-old’s rape-murder is nowhere close to what we saw for Nirbhaya

Jammu-centric parties realise that supporting the alleged killers of the 8-year old will get you votes, supporting the call for swift justice won’t

Stop making new laws for children’s safety. Instead implement what we have first

Nobel Laureate Kailash Satyarthi is advocating for setting up a national children's tribunal, on the lines of the National Green Tribunal.

Once dismissed as lazy, Kidambi Srikanth is now praised for Roger Federer-like calm

The world number one rank ticked off his bucket list, Srikanth will have his eyes set on Olympics and World championship golds besides the All-England title.

10 Ambedkar quotes that show why the BJP can’t co-opt him

Bowing before a statue is not enough to erase Ambedkar’s ideas, deep-rooted as they are amongst Dalits across India.

All is not well in BJP, sidelined senior leaders are waiting for Modi to slip

The BJP is surging because the non-BJP parties are disunited. Mere Congress-bashing will not help anymore because Modi has to give his report card.

India’s oil habit is about to become a drag for Modi

India may face a looming oil drought if it doesn't reduce its urban pollution and slow down its carbon emission levels by switching to a less...

Why does BJP say ‘Beti Bachao’ and then do ‘Balatkari Bachao’ – over and over again?

Remember, this is UP, where CM Adityanath says criminals will be shot dead in fake encounters without a trial — but he decides that he and other BJP leaders can be declared innocent without a trial.

Dear millennials, meet K.L. Saigal who WAS Bollywood music

My generation was introduced to Saigal somewhat unexpectedly, by the use of his song ‘Ek bangla bane nyara’ in Raj Khosla’s Do Raaste.

On Camera

What’s shaping space race 2.0—minerals on Moon, human colonies, Helium-3

The Artemis Accords can be seen as an early American effort to shape the legal, technological, and policy frameworks governing access to, and use of, lunar resources.

Fuel shock hits Asia’s rice bowl as farmers cut planting

War-driven surge in fuel and fertilizer costs forces farmers across Southeast Asia to delay harvests, scale back sowing and risk lower output.

Iran’s Shahed vs US’s LUCAS—The drone arithmetic reshaping the West Asia war

From Kyiv to the Gulf, Iran’s Shahed rewrote the rules of aerial warfare. Now, the US has its own copy of the cheap drones, LUCAS.

The world’s in a flux. India must reform, consolidate & build a strong economy

We now live in a world order that will keep shifting. India must use this window. This also means we remain disciplined enough not to be knee-jerked into reacting to what Pakistan sees as its moment in the sun.