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It was the mid-‘80s. Independence Day was a holiday. I wanted to go out, play with my friends. But my mother sternly said, “Don’t go out today…who knows what will happen. Bombs may explode and what not.” That warning still rings in my ears every Independence Day.

कैसा अजीब मंजर है आंखों के सामने कि लोकतंत्र के पन्ने-पन्ने उखड़ कर, रद्दी कागजों-से हवा में इधर-उधर उड़ रहे हैं और इन्हीं पन्नों के बल पिछले एक दशक से ज्यादा समय से सत्ता में बैठी सरकार आंखें मूंदे बैठी है. कुछ वैसे ही जैसे बिल्ली सामने से भागते चूहों…

Opposition parties in Kerala have alleged electoral roll manipulation in Thrissur a year after the Bharatiya Janata Party's historic first Lok Sabha victory in the state, though evidence for the claims of large-scale manipulation remains limited. The accusations emerged amid broader national allegations by Congress leader Rahul Gandhi about electoral…

As India enters its 79th year, the questions of who the Republic belongs to and who belongs in the country stare its citizens in the face in multiple ways. The day has somehow come to be one of enforced vegetarianism, with several municipal bodies across the country ordering the closure…

The sterilisation and vaccination of stray dogs are not just animal welfare measures – they are the centrepiece of India’s legally mandated strategy to manage the street dog population and prevent rabies. The Animal Birth Control (Dogs) Rules, 2023, framed under the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1960, require…

The air quality in Delhi improved after heavy rains lashed the city on Thursday. 

Because something is happening here but you don't know what it is Do you, Mr. Jones?– Bob Dylan, Ballad of a Thin Man, Highway 61 Revisited, 1965. I was offered my first job in Mumbai on a very rainy day in September 2005, a few weeks after we had celebrated the…

Every August 15, the country wakes up unusually early, not out of patriotism but because every street and apartment block is blaring Mere Desh Ki Dharti and Vande Mataram on loop through Ahuja speakers, which were last repaired when Nehru was still around. 

This week, host Shivnarayan Rajpurohit is joined by Newslaundry’s Avdhesh Kumar and Sumedha Mittal.

The flood in Dharali, Uttarkashi, is among the most devastating disasters to hit India in the past decade. On August 5, a sudden surge in the Khirganga river unleashed torrents of water, rocks, trees, and mud, destroying over 80 hotels, the local market, and a large stretch of the Gangotri…

उत्तरकाशी के धराली में आया सैलाब बीते एक दशक में देश के भीतर आई सबसे बड़ी आपदाओं में से एक है. यहां 5 अगस्त को खीरगंगा नदी में आई बाढ़ और मलबे के सैलाब ने तबाही मचा दी है. वैज्ञानिक जहां अभी भी इसके कारणों की पड़ताल में जुटे हैं…