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Monday, March 16, 2026
TopicAruna Roy

Topic: Aruna Roy

Aruna Roy once worked with an ‘extremely crude’ politician. Jane Austen came to her rescue

Roy was speaking at the debut session of a lecture series, ‘Literature Matters’, by Hindi writer and cultural czar Ashok Vajpeyi’s Raza Foundation.

Personal is Political—Ex-IAS officer Aruna Roy wants to provoke conversations with her memoir

Aruna Roy’s memoir delves into her five decades of engagement in the political and public spheres.

Space for political documentary films is shrinking. No university spaces, a crisis point

Street censorship, absence of funding, and lack of support from prominent film festivals have created a crisis for political documentaries in India.

‘Kathua-like crimes call for new instruments to hold government accountable’

Talking about the RTI movement, activist Harsh Mander said Indians faced a greater battle today than they did when the campaign for the crucial accountability weapon began.

On Camera

Gulf conflict pushes Dubai diamond traders to eye Surat for rough stone auctions. But there are hurdles

Industry leaders say India’s complicated customs process and GST levies are deterrents for traders to come to Surat for auctions.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.