On July 3, 2025 Trump's massive tax cut bill passed the US Congress vote, with all but two Republican members of Congress voting for it.
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Pilgrims rue lax facilities, allege police lathi charge, while administration denies charges, says more than 1,500 registered in a day.
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Parwati Tirkey is the first tribal woman from Jharkhand to be selected for the Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar 2025 for her poetry collection Phir Ugna. In an interview to Md Asghar Khan, she talks about what motivates her to write powerful poems about nature and environment
The next census will reveal socio-economic changes in the hill state and other demographic trends related to health care and education.
Seven days after Kolkata Law College gangrape came to light, the case starts making its way through the legal process—minus outrage from citizens.
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The Bharatiya Janata Party's "Jaha Jhuggi Waha Makaan" manifesto promised affordable housing to Delhi's slum dwellers, but for many, that promise remains unfulfilled.
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This isn’t to say these regimes aren’t oppressive and have not tortured their people, especially women, but to impose a war on their country invoking the brutal regime and making a case for bombings is to undermine people’s ability to question and collectivise on their own. We know from history how many countries have been abandoned, like Afghanistan
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As missiles fall silent—for now—it’s time to explore whether the heart of the Iran-Israel conflict lies in a deeper battle over culture and values
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Israel under Benjamin Netanyahu now seems out of control. The 12-day Iran-Israel war, backed by Big Daddy US, proves that
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Where do Israel, Iran and the US go from here? Will there be permanent peace or is this just a lull before a storm?
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Policies—whether in the West or in the Muslim world—are imposed on women, not developed with them or for them. How they dress becomes shorthand for community honour, nationalism or piety
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The US has zero moral authority to want to tell the Tehran regime to behave itself or be nice to its own people
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The Iranian constitution is instrumental in giving an ideological and political base for the theocratic state, notwithstanding recurrent internal unrest, economic hardships and wars fought over the last four-and-a-half decades
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Iranian dissidents—who once defied the Shah and then the clerics—have united against foreign attacks and have called for a new vision of freedom and unity
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Modern warfare is a shape-shifting entity and the information explosion has expanded the battlespace far beyond the battlefield
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Not the conservative ‘red’ as Zohran Mamdani is a democratic socialist
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Political parties in Bihar are looking to woo women voters—who constitute almost half of the vote bank—ahead of the state Assembly election
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Mahesh Raut, a TISS alumnus and rights activist working for Adivasis and marginalised communities, was arrested in June 2018 in the Bhima-Koregaon Maoist conspiracy case and has since been incarcerated in jail
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Book bans are about fear, control and the desperate need to manage public imagination
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Guru Dutt, whose birth centenary falls this July, created cinematic masterpieces amid the fog of his own uncertainty
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This novel is a flawed, luminous, maximalist love letter to Kolkata’s layered soul
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Our worst algorithms have come home to haunt us. The nightmare is no longer something we dream up. It is dreamt on our behalf
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As children, we didn’t quite understand what was happening but we knew something was amiss.Only later did I understand what not seeing eye to eye meant.
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Mallikarjun Kharge targeted the Modi government over Chinese engineers exiting a manufacturing plant in India, stating ‘you gave a clean chit to China.’
The incident has reignited calls for stronger communication channels and de-escalation protocols between the two nuclear-armed neighbors, whose history has been marked by conflict and deep mistrust.
India officially names Ahmedabad as its candidate city for the 2036 Olympics, with Indian Olympic Association president PT Usha and sports ministry presenting the bid to the International Olympic Committee in Lausanne
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With the Chief Minister's Grassroots Music Programme comes not only income, but a shift in the posture of musicians in Meghalaya from performance as a plea to performance as presence.
Squid Game 3 is not a mere thriller or an engaging cinematic experience—it sheds light on socio-economic dynamics, moral decay, social realism, human psychology, and the unrelenting penetration of capital.
As Devdas turns 23 this July, here’s looking at the enduring intrigue of Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, who reigned over the global stage since the film’s release, despite an intermittent career back home.
Kareena’s career unfolds in distinct phases: teen idol, glamorous heroine, serious actor, mainstream lead, ensemble player, and mother figure. Her journey is a witness to a woman who’s grown over the years.
Squid Game 3 is not a mere thriller or an engaging cinematic experience—it sheds light on socio-economic dynamics, moral decay, social realism, human psychology, and the unrelenting penetration of capital.
As Devdas turns 23 this July, here’s looking at the enduring intrigue of Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, who reigned over the global stage since the film’s release, despite an intermittent career back home.
Kareena’s career unfolds in distinct phases: teen idol, glamorous heroine, serious actor, mainstream lead, ensemble player, and mother figure. Her journey is a witness to a woman who’s grown over the years.
Making room for the personal alongside the political, Guru Dutt’s films ask difficult questions that continue to make us queasy.
Pride Month Special | Queer films currently emerging in India aren’t love-conquers-all stories, but grounded ones—closer to what is, rather than what should be. They reflect a world where “love is love” still feels more like an aspiration than a reality.
The first South Indian Hindi film of Guru Dutt where he played the male lead was 1963 film Bahurani, directed by T Prakash Rao.
Pride Month Special | Little happened in Rituparno Ghosh’s films that the director hadn’t already lived through—or at the very least, felt in his bones—as is so often the case with the most honest art.
Despite the many examples before Aamir Khan, his gaze towards differently-abled actors in his latest film is myopic, disingenuous and borderline utilitarian.
Guru Dutt, whose birth centenary falls this July, created cinematic masterpieces amid the fog of his own uncertainty
Bollywood routinely profits from hypernationalist military narratives that demonise entire communities in the name of storytelling, but scrutiny of such films is often met with resentment instead of critical thinking. The 'Sardaar ji 3' controversy exemplifies that outrage only erupts when someone dares to imagine a version of India that doesn’t include perpetual hostility.
Lost in a pointless loop, the once-exhilarating series no longer knows what to say
The allure of Umrao Jaan is not just in its characters’ recitals; the film embodies poetry in its form. It is no wonder then, that its digitally restored re-release in the theatres has brought so much delight to audiences old and young.
'Mumbai Star: The Dance Musical' is an entertaining celebration of everything that is Mumbai
Vishal Furia's latest treads an overfamiliar path with its generic gender-horror and supernatural tropes, offering little that hasn’t already been said.
Joseph Kosinski’s Formula One stint surges forth only in fits
On the surface, this Dhanush starrer reads as a socio-political and class-divide commentary. Yet, its true aim is to actually reach those caught in the middle—neither too powerful nor utterly discarded—and explore who they choose to be each day.
Kanwar’s 1997 documentary maps national violence onto a daily canvas.
Ninawe's debut feature recently released on Amazon Prime, demonstrating how streaming platforms are offering new ways for indie films to be discovered. While remaining cautious about Indian cinema’s current state, Ninawe discusses the optimistic possibilities for its revival.
With the Chief Minister's Grassroots Music Programme comes not only income, but a shift in the posture of musicians in Meghalaya from performance as a plea to performance as presence.
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The Labubu craze is a prime example of the kidulting phenonmenon, and a capitalist spin on what’s ‘cool’
