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As Budget 2026 approaches, gig workers across India are calling for constitutional guarantees, fair wages, social security, and recognition of cities as workplaces amid falling incomes, long hours, and growing algorithmic control by platforms.
India needs to look at Spain’s ‘rider law’, which reclassified food delivery workers as employees, and the European Union’s Platform Workers’ Directive (2024), aimed at correcting misclassification and regulating algorithmic decision-making.
As the Union Budget is presented and three opposition-ruled states head to Assembly elections within the next three months, Centre–State relations—and the politics shaping them—are set to come under renewed scrutiny.
Manufacturing leaders and market participants alike are aligned in their view that targeted reforms, rather than headline spending alone, will determine whether India’s manufacturing ambitions translate into durable, broad-based growth.
In this reflective ode, the charpoy is celebrated. From villages and courtyards to art, cinema, and contemporary installations, the charpoy emerges as a functional object rich with memory, meaning, and cultural resonance
The acquittals in the alleged Maoist-links case expose the vagueness and inhumanity of long-drawn terror litigation in India, which has also claimed lives such as that of Pandu Narote, who died in prison awaiting justice.
I realised that the more intense the sense of despair, the harder hope kicks in.
Since Independence, a number of laws have been enacted that allow preventive detention which have been widely used by all regimes against their political opponents
“The Operative Word in Mainstream Media’s Discourse For Me is No More ‘Anti-National’; it’s ‘Terrorist’”
I am enormously relieved that the separation from my only daughter, Maaysha, has ended. We can speak to each other every day.
Lt Col Prasad Shrikant Purohit was arrested in connection with the 2008 Malegaon case. He was acquitted in July 2025, after a 17-year-long legal battle. A first-person account by his wife
We became victims of two things—unjust investigation and a media trial that was used as a weapon. The Media Trial was Deeply Painful.
The jail—and the treatment meted out to the accused—felt as though it belonged to another age, one in which the rule of law did not exist.
My arrest led to a nationwide and even international controversy on the security of the journalists operating in the Bastar region. Till date, many journalists in the region have either gone silent or are operating in the shadows of fear.
A Delhi district court granted Mohammad Iqbal bail in the riots case within three months. On March 18, 2025, he was discharged in the Babbu murder case, even as the riots trial continues
In Jharkhand, thousands of Adivasis have been arrested on Maoist allegations. They have spent years in prison before being declared innocent
India today has more than 4.3 lakh undertrial prisoners. A significant number of them are linked to political cases
The poet and activist was jailed in connection with caste violence that erupted in 2018 in Bhima Koregaon. He was 78 then. Though he was released on medical grounds in 2022, he is still confined to Mumbai. In this first-person account, his daughter Pavana writes about how multiple incarcerations could not break her father’s strength and soul
Women’s rights activist and professor Shoma Sen, who was arrested in 2018 for her alleged involvement in the Bhima Koregaon riots, writes how in prisons, time comes to a standstill, literally
It all comes down to one thing: compliance with the Constitution, and the freedom of expression.
More than five years after his arrest under the UAPA in the Bhima Koregaon case, former Delhi University professor Hany Babu was granted bail in December 2025. He shares his experience of prison life.
The Bhima Koregaon case is not only about those who were imprisoned. It is also about the fate of democracy itself
The systematic creation of criminal and security legislations view Adivasis as an inherently suspect class of criminals and terrorists
Death row intensifies the structured brutalities of the penal system and reminds us why the struggle against the death penalty must also include the fact of prison violence
Rupesh Kumar Singh is a journalist, currently an undertrial prisoner in Adarsh Central Jail, Beur, Patna.
Rajya Sabha MP leaves for Mumbai as sources say she will replace late NCP chief Ajit Pawar in the state cabinet
A major release of Jeffrey Epstein documents reveals emails with politicians and billionaires, island visit discussions, and new details about his jail death
Teammates Jacob Bethell and Josh Tongue were also fined for their involvement and they are being investigated by the cricket regulator. Brook confessed that he was not alone when he visited the nightclub during England's tour of New Zealand
Outlook at Sundance| A couple’s estrangement is thwarted by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in Andrius Blaževičius’ drab, derivative World Cinema Dramatic Competition title
The first part of Bridgerton Season 4 successfully offers its women spectators a ground to feel with their bodies, to imagine being touched, loved, dreamt about, and drawn not as muses but as subjects and objects of desire in their own right.
The third chapter stays true to the franchise's moral core, even when its choices don't always trust the silences in its own story.
Outlook at Sundance | Josef Kubota Wladyka’s U.S. Dramatic Competition entry mines heartbreak and humour in a Japanese widow dancing through bereavement
The first part of Bridgerton Season 4 successfully offers its women spectators a ground to feel with their bodies, to imagine being touched, loved, dreamt about, and drawn not as muses but as subjects and objects of desire in their own right.
The third chapter stays true to the franchise's moral core, even when its choices don't always trust the silences in its own story.
Outlook at Sundance | Josef Kubota Wladyka’s U.S. Dramatic Competition entry mines heartbreak and humour in a Japanese widow dancing through bereavement
Daldal could have been a sharper critique of how institutions fail vulnerable children, how complex trauma and gender bias shapes our lives. Instead, it ends up reinforcing some of the very associations it seems to interrogate.
While Tumbbad (2018) confines its generational curse to a haveli or ancestral home, here the “cursed space” is a crumbling film studio where the entire story unfolds. The film stages a cat-and-mouse duel of intellects within these decaying walls.
What makes the film striking is the imaginative terrain it gives anger to occupy. Female rage is not contained here. It mutates into spectacle, texture and motion.
Outlook at Sundance | Maryam Ataei and Hossein Keshavarz’s Tehran-set U.S. Dramatic Competition title welds radical optimism as the way forward.
With Mardaani 3 releasing this Friday and Rani Mukerji completing three decades in Bollywood, here is looking at some of the finest roles she has essayed in her career.
Outlook at Sundance | A father’s search for his missing teenage son leads Michal Marczak’s dangerously riveting, raw doc
A Palestinian-supporting Israeli theatre troupe was barred from performing at the International Theatre Festival of Kerala after visas were denied by the Indian Embassy in Israel.
At the heart of this film lies a simple question: Are you willing to confront the hurt before embracing healing?
Outlook at Sundance | Biljana Tutorovand Petar Glomazić’s quietly affecting documentary takes a sedately studied look at ecological tussle in the Balkan grasslands.
How Arijit Singh became the voice of a generation and why his step away from playback singing feels like a quiet goodbye.
Protesters rally against ICE at the Sundance Film Festival as anger over federal immigration enforcement intensifies.
The director behind the Oscar-nominated The Secret Agent has always reflected on national wounds with memorialising power.
The Jana Nayagan censor row has turned Vijay Thalapathy’s final film into one of Tamil cinema’s most debated legal battles
Composed by A.R. Rahman and penned by Prasoon Joshi, the soundtrack captured something so fundamental about being young, that the songs have somehow never really aged.
Mehra’s film holds power accountable and reminds viewers even today that loving one’s country does not require loving one’s government or blindly endorsing its actions.
During my recent visit to Benares, I found myself walking through a city reshaped by ambition, reordered by authority, and increasingly uncomfortable with the very rituals that had sustained it for centuries
CEA Nageswaran Interview: Getting a Pollution Tax Right May Not Be That Easy
Union Budget 2026 Expectations LIVE: Income Tax, Home Loans, Savings, and Credit Support for Individuals
EWCF Commits $45M Fund to Esports Nations Cup 2026
Dining Amid The Aravallis: Inside The Leela Palace Jaipur’s Culinary Experiences
Nearly a decade on, 2016 remains the most iconic year of the 2010s—a time of peak pop culture, playful trends, and unforgettable food obsessions. Here’s what we were eating back then.
The luxury home living brand has come up with a 18,000 sqft flagship store at MG Road bringing its design-forward approach to furniture and collectibles
