[21 September 2026, New Delhi: More than a year after the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) took Suo motu cognizance of a heinous case of a father’s attempt to murder and assault with acid his own teenage daughter in a small village in Haryana’s Bhiwani district, local police have still not fulfilled their directive of […]
When journalists ask questions to powerful figures, be it from the Congress or AAP or BJP, there is a concerning trend of social or legal backlashes against them for doing their job. Debasree Sarkar On September 12, 2026, during a press meet held in Lucknow, just as the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, […]
Today, as we battle to save our public universities, we must remember that what is at stake is more than just democratic practices, administrative autonomy or academic freedom. Jhelum Roy “I swear fidelity to the King, to his Royal successors and to the Fascist regime, and I swear to respect the [National Fascist […]
The blatant distortions of the Mercator projection and its Eurocentric approach gave rise to several alternatives, particularly among broad-left or progressive cartographers. Fianlly, the United Nations General Assembly adopted an African proposal for a new world map, which shows countries’ true size relative to one another. By Prabir Purkayastha Source: Globetrotter Last week, […]
A photo-essay on the Mamallan reservoir in Chennai to be built on ecologically sensitive areas, threatens to destroy livelihoods of fishermen. The essay documents the diversity of marginalised fisherfolk who fish here. Sushmita Venugopalan On 19th January 2026, the foundation stone for the construction of the Mamallan reservoir was laid by M K […]
শাহিন, নাফিসার শরীরের প্রতিটি কালসিটে মনে করিয়ে দিক গৌরি লঙ্কেশ-এর লাল রক্তর কথা। আসলে তো ভয় নয়, সাহসই সংক্রামক। সুদর্শনা চক্রবর্তী “ম্যায় এক ভারতীয় মুসলিম মহিলা পত্রকার হু।” “আমি একজন ভারতীয় মুসলমান মহিলা সাংবাদিক।” “I am an Indian Muslim woman Journalist.” মাথার চুল থেকে পায়ের নখ পর্যন্ত ব্যাখ্যাতীত ট্রমা-য় আক্রান্ত, প্রবল শারীরিক […]
The disaster exposed the extreme fragility of high-altitude Himalayan ecosystems under a shifting climate. By Madhab Pant At roughly 8:30 AM on 26 August 2026, a wall of water, mud, ice, and massive boulders roared down the Lhende Khola into the Bhotekoshi and Trishuli river systems. The surge struck without local rainfall or […]
Visakhapatnam police suppress public scrutiny of the city’s rapidly expanding data-centre projects as land displacement and environmental costs come under scrutiny. Groundxero | 11 August 2026 A peaceful campaign against the rapid expansion of hyperscale data centres in and around Visakhapatnam was disrupted by the police on Sunday (August), with the authorities first […]
The indefinite hunger strike against the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) in Chennai entered its seventh day on Saturday, August 8. The agitation, led by the Anti-NEET Federation and the Joint Movement Against NEET, is demanding not merely reforms to the examination but its complete abolition, along with greater state control over education. Chennai, August […]
“As Prime Minister, ackowledge this failure, make a national apology and take immediate action”, Safai Karmachari Andolan said in a memorandum to the Prime Minister. New Delhi, August 4: Hundreds of sanitation workers from more than 10 states, families of those killed while cleaning sewers and septic tanks, Members of Parliament, students, writers, and […]
PM SHRI is the newest chapter in a much older argument about who gets to decide what do India’s children learns, an argument that, fifty years after the 42nd Amendment, still doesn’t have a settled answer. by C. Mujeebu Rahman For all the debate around PM SHRI in Keralam since the last Assembly […]
Unless the movement’s objectives expand beyond the resignation of an individual minister toward structural reforms, such as increased public investment in education, ending the coaching-dependent education model, and ensuring meaningful employment opportunities, changing the ruling party or replacing the Education Minister alone will bring no fundamental change to the lives of India’s students. By […]
Rape culture and its critique from the educated middle classes remains restricted to urban contexts rendering the marginalized cases of non-urban, non-dominant sections outside the framework of rape culture and so outside the realm of protests. By Sohini Saha Groundxero | July 14, 2026 Incidences of rape and the protests that have followed from them have […]
The real concern is not primarily about eggs or ISKCON but about the transformation of rights into charity and citizens into beneficiaries. by Tinku Khanna There is a particular kind of politics that hides inside a child’s plate. We are trained to see the noon meal in a government school as charity — […]
That is not investigation; it is intimidation wearing an investigation’s clothes — a counter-terror agency turned into a tool against dissent. Groundxero | June 22, 2026 At 4.30 in the morning on 18 June, a dozen National Investigation Agency (NIA) officers walked into the south Kolkata flat of Jhelum Roy — a scholar, […]