Denied the fixing of accountability for what befell them, survivors and kin of the slain in the 2006 Mumbai train blasts find their old wounds reopened after the recent acquittals
About The Author
Pritha Vashishth is a Mumbai-based journalist who writes about human rights, society, and culture. She is the author of two published poetry collections, Mihir and Mayur Pida. She can be contacted at pritha.vashishth@outlookindia.com.
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The night Mumbai bled and the wronged men who bled longer
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When Italian luxury brand Prada showcased a designer version of the Kolhapuri chappal, no one asked who actually makes the chappal in India
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The Bhima Koregaon case returns to focus as the Supreme Court allows bail plea revival—while Maharashtra’s sweeping Jan Suraksha Bill raises alarms over civil liberties, ambiguous terms, and the creeping criminalisation of protest.
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Walk through, and the city morphs. Lanes shrink. Dharavi, once branded a slum, now gleams on real estate flyers. But inside its labyrinth, where the city keeps its secrets and its sewage, no one counts people's lives.
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For India-born Danish conductor Maria Badstue, music is the one space where she truly belongs
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For decades, generations have built lives in Dharavi’s tight-knit lanes—rooms layered like sediment in tiny, unventilated boxes. But the promise of development came late, and now that it is finally here, it arrives under the looming structure of the Dharavi Redevelopment Project (DRP)
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Captain Sumeet had joined Air India in 1994. He had logged over 8,000 hours of flying time. Known among his peers for his calm under pressure, he had never been involved in any major incident in his career
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In the marshlands of the Rann of Kutch, where the border is invisible yet hotly contested, belongingness becomes tentative
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In areas under the Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation (MIDC)—including Thane, Nashik, Pune, Kolhapur, Dhule, and Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar districts—residents receive water only twice a week
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