India’s Deepak Moment: Ordinary Citizen vs Rising Intolerance
Recently, a video from northern India captured a tense confrontation that quickly went viral. A group of men, claiming affiliation with a Hindu nationalist organisation, harassed an elderly Muslim shopkeeper, demanding that he remove the word “Baba” from the...
The U.S.-India Strategic Partnership Gains New Momentum
By Jessica Roberts
U.S. President Donald Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi have deepened trade and energy cooperation following a phone call this week, underscoring steady momentum in bilateral ties even in the absence of a face-to-face summit.
After the...
Raids, Fear, and a Fatal End for India’s Business Elite
From Joy Arakkal's despair in the Gulf to C.C. Thampi's arrest in Delhi  and prolonged ED scrutiny, and now C.J. Roy's tragic end—these cases highlight a pattern of relentless pressure that pushes individuals to the brink.
Today, Bengaluru witnessed another...
Ajit Pawar’s final flight: tragedy, power and the politics of suspicion
India has seen too many sudden deaths of powerful men to treat shock as unusual. Yet the death of Ajit Pawar — abrupt, violent and unresolved — lands with a particular weight. It is not only because Pawar was...
Kerala’s Moral Reckoning: Beyond the Brutal Killing of Ramnarayan
K.T. Abdurabb
The autopsy report of Ramnarayan—a 31-year-old Dalit construction worker from Chhattisgarh—lists over eighty injuries. His ribs were broken, his spine fractured, and medical examiners noted there was “no part of his body without injuries.” Beaten to death by a mob at Walayar...
UK general election opinion polls: Labour leading as election looms
The next UK general election is looming, with most analysts expecting it to be called late this year. After 13 years of Conservative rule, Keir Starmer’s Labour has been consistently ahead in the polls since the start of 2022.The...
Who will decide
Who has the right to decide how religious an individual is? I happened to have upset a lot of my Muslim community by coming out and lobbying for humanity before religion. As a child I was told that I...