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51 OUT OF EVERY 100 INDIANS ARE VULNERABLE TO “MODERN SLAVERY”
“No one can imagine such a painful life. There is much torture on me and I am punished even at my minor mistakes like a child. My family is always living under threats. There is also physical violence...
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RADICAL GROUPS IN ISLAMIC STATE USE SOCIAL MEDIA TO ATTRACT RECRUITS
Following the deaths of several African American men at the hands of police last year, the Twitter hashtag #blacklivesmatter enabled people from around the world to discuss race relations in the US....
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WHEN I CAPTURED THE MAN WHO WOULD BE PAKISTAN’S AIR CHIEF
August 1971 onwards, we were living in interesting times. Talk of war was in the air and for young officers like me, in their early twenties, those were heady days. I was the Adjutant of 4 Sikh, which...
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DEAR BOLLYWOOD, YOU’RE LOSING THE PLOT
It’s almost June and the country is sweltering. But ironically, it’s not just the man on the street feeling the heat, it’s also the domestic film industry, namely Bollywood. Half the year has gone...
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THE LAST GUN MAKER OF LONGDING
Far away from the mainstream, approximately 30 km from Burma, tucked away in the pristine hills of Arunachal Pradesh’s Longding district, live the Wancho, a tribal people with Naga origins. Here,...
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MATHURA: A NEXUS OF THUGS, SAINTS AND POLITICS
Mathura is a slow-moving city, unhurried and calm. With the temperature touching 43 degrees on a Saturday afternoon in June, the roads were mostly deserted with the exception of a few stray cows, some...
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WHY WERE MANIPURI PROTESTORS IN DELHI BEATEN UP?
For almost a year now, three contentious bills related to Manipur have been in the eye of a hurricane. Many agitations have been held across the northeastern state as well as in Delhi. While some of...
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THE POWER OF LITERATURE AND THE ARTS
Growing up in Canada, I had a Romanian immigrant’s relentless pragmatism, having been raised to think that medicine and law were the only acceptable career options in life. Although I was a bookish...
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BE GRATEFUL: ONLY 13 CUTS AND ‘A’ RATING FOR UDTA PUNJAB
Source: “Detail from an image by AIB, courtesy Facebook.” After being scathingly attacked from all possible fronts that don’t abbreviate to “SAD” or” BJP”, yesterday the Central Board of Film...
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DELHI POLICE VERIFIES PASSPORT THE FASTEST
It took 71 days to issue an Indian passport in 2014, nearly three times as long as the 24 days fixed by the government, and the police took twice as long as they should (42 days instead of 21) to...
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WHERE’S THE PROMISED LAND FOR KASHMIRI PANDITS?
For the past 26 years, every political party has played with the issue of resettling Kashmiri Pandits in Kashmir for their own interests. And every time, once the votes have been counted, the issue...
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RISING HEAT COULD CUT INDIA’S DAYLIGHT WORK HOURS
India is set to lose 3.6% of annual daylight work hours by 2025 due to rising temperatures, reveals an IndiaSpend analysis of data in a new United Nations report. The loss of daylight work hours could...
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ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT ‘PRADHAN MANTRI UJJWALA YOJANA’
The Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana was launched recently to provide free LPG connections to 5 crore families across the country in the next 3 years. The scheme is a step in the right direction, but...
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THE NEXT ‘GREEN REVOLUTION’ SHOULD FOCUS ON HUNGER – NOT PROFIT
The “green revolution” of the 1960s delivered vast increases in food production, averting famines and political instability across the world. There are now urgent appeals for a second green revolution...
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SONA CHAUDHARY AND THE CHAOTIC MESS THAT IS WOMEN’S FOOTBALL
Sona Chaudhary wants to be taken seriously as a writer, but it is as a former footballer that she has made news. Her latest book (she’s written three novels) is titled Game in Game and recounts true...
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COMING TO DU? CHECK OUT AMITY AND SHARDA TOO!
When you go to Delhi University as an aspiring student, you may be handed a Delhi University Students’ Union (DUSU) booklet, or an “information bulletin” as they call it. It’s supposed to be something...
View ArticleA REVIEW OF #NLHAFTA FROM AKSHAY SHETH, PRAVEEN SANAP & ABHIJIT PATWA
Hey Guys, I want to start by saying that I am a big fan of Hafta and Newslaundry. I have been following news laundry since 2014 and turned subscriber last year. I hope you guys continue to do the good...
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NL HAFTA – EPISODE 71: IS AAP A SERIOUS OPTION IN PUNJAB?
Tune into this week’s NL Hafta to listen to the “khula sandh” of Indian journalism, Hartosh Singh Bal. He trashes everyone (reasonably) from AAP to BJP and little congresses of political parties in...
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