The 2026–27 budget offers little relief for India’s social sectors, with only modest increases for health, education, and welfare.
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Overall, budget 2026–27 signals a clearer policy intent to integrate tourism with employment generation and regional development.
The only major announcement is the proposal to establish a “NIMHANS-2–like” mental health institution in Ranchi
The budget avoids populist tax cuts or headline-grabbing sops, signalling that the government believes its core voter coalitions are secure and that economic credibility matters more than short-term applause.
Despite talk of clean energy and green technology, Budget 2026 largely excludes pollution control, climate adaptation and environmental protection
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The Union Budget has evoked a mixed reaction, with measures like the development of mountain trails and an increase in central grants hailed by some, while others noted that the Jammu and Kashmir Union Territory has been ignored
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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.
- Scars Of 17 Years Will Remain: Aparna Purohit On Lt Col Purohit's Imprisonment In 2008 Malegaon Case
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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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