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article-14.com @article-14.com · 26/06/2025

Why is Jaswant Singh Khalra’s story so scary to those blocking the film? Because his life illustrates clearly what it takes to spread light in the midst of darkness. Subscribe to read the full edit note by @priyaramani.bsky.social article-14.com/subscribe

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Blaft Publications @blaft.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Blaft's graphic novel offerings include Appupen's debut MOONWARD, Yukichi Yamamatsu's STUPID GUY GOES TO INDIA (an autobiographical manga set in Delhi), and the 25th anniversary edition of Orijit Sen's RIVER OF STORIES (the first ever Indian graphic novel) www.blaft.com/collections/...

Stupid Guy Goes to India by Yukichi Yamamatsu

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article-14.com @article-14.com · 07/04/2025

"Demanding #education is not anti-national." PhD scholar Ramadas PS to @itsswati.bsky.social, as TISS, #Mumbai suspended him for 2 yrs in 2024 for joining a protest on education policies. On 12 March 2025, the Bombay HC dismissed his suspension challenge. youtu.be/XR1rC2eKgFc

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Betwa Sharma @betwasharma.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

The ideal of the apolitical citizen, who participates in politics once every 5 years & returns to a political quarantine, benefits those in power. Kunal Kamra's Naya Bharat calls on Indians to reclaim politics, writes Kavitha Iyer To read, subscribe article-14.com/subscribe

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article-14.com @article-14.com · 05/04/2025

Considering how difficult it can be to achieve justice in cases when the ruling party desires a specific outcome, it is rare to encounter orders & judges who adhere strictly to the law, writes @betwasharma.bsky.social. She tells us of those who do. To read, subscribe article-14.com/subscribe

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article-14.com @article-14.com · 31/03/2025

"There cannot be freedom of speech without the right to offend" Activist Feroze to Swati on the risks of speaking out in #India—dissenters face legal action, demolitions & surveillance, as seen after #KunalKamra's video youtu.be/5vDuDnl4_Ok

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Betwa Sharma @betwasharma.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

No generation before us has witnessed a live streamed genocide. And certainly no generation before us has witnessed a live streamed genocide while shopping for hand-tufted woollen rugs.... @priyaramani.bsky.social on the peak cognitive dissonance of our times priyaramani.substack.com/p/genocide-a...

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Gish Gallop @gishgallop.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Steve Liesman perfectly sums up every one of us that are losing our 401k, retirement etc

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article-14.com @article-14.com · 07/03/2025

On 5 March, a Delhi court sentenced a man to 10 years for a 2017 acid attack on a man & his two minor daughters, awarding them Rs 20 lakh compensation. Our report on the case, the legal battle led by Brave Souls Foundation & systemic delays in acid attack convictions. youtu.be/Asv9CAaQSQE?...

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Blaft Publications @blaft.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Indian pulp fiction in translation, Anti-Caste SF & more! Free shipping within India! Ebooks available! We ship worldwide, too, & while the shipping is a bit pricy, Indian book prices are comparatively low, so it kinda works out! (Especially if you buy 2+ books!) www.blaft.com/collections/...

Gujarati Pulp Fiction in translation -- garba scuba dancer fights jalrakshas

Mizo Myths front cover - weretiger shilling at a campfire with a witch

Tamil Pulp Fiction front cover -- sari-clad lady toting a revolver

Anti-Caste SF front cover - Priyanka Paul's illustration of Babasaheb in the Future

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article-14.com @article-14.com · 03/03/2025

Bela Bhatia’s book India’s Forgotten Country traces 3 decades of state coercion, corporate interests & democratic erosion across #India. From #Gujarat to #Kashmir, her essays document the suppression of dissent & the complicity of elites, writes Ashoka Mody article-14.com/post/india-s...

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India’s Forgotten Country: How State Power & Capitalism Without Checks Fuel The Totalitarian Temptation

In this guest article, economist and writer ASHOKA MODY connects the dots from writer, activist and human rights lawyer Bela Bhatia’s account of her activism to state coercion, corporate interests and...

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article-14.com @article-14.com · 01/03/2025

Our interview from the archives with Banu Mushtaq, whose short story collection Heart Lamp has made it to the 2025 Booker Prize long list. By Basav Biradar article-14.com/post/-in-kar...

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article-14.com @article-14.com · 28/02/2025

In Ways of Remembering, Oishik Sircar examines how law & Bollywood shaped collective public memory of Gujarat 2002. A striking study on cinema, courts & Hindutva narratives. Read an exclusive excerpt here article-14.com/post/ways-of...

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Ways of Remembering: Law, Cinema and Collective Memory in the New India By Oishik Sircar

Article 14 addresses threats to and failures of justice and deficiencies in the legal system, tracks successes that can be built upon and discerns trends and patterns that require to be brought to the...

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article-14.com @article-14.com · 27/02/2025

“The river turned blood that day” Mohammad Ajijul Haque, who lost five family members in #Assam’s #NellieMassacre, recalls what he saw on 18 February 1983 Watch: youtu.be/HhArHrBPVdc

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Priya Ramani @priyaramani.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

So no more pieces like this in WaPo?

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article-14.com @article-14.com · 24/02/2025

"Kula comes from ‘Kul,’ meaning a clan, a tribe, a community. As the world grows uncertain, art is becoming ‘you’ vs ‘me’—traditional vs modern. But there’s space for all to coexist" Andre Tully, Kula Worldwide 2025, celebrating diverse art in #Mumbai youtu.be/Xxlj8YWSwtM

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'The Art of the Have-Nots': Tattoo Culture | Article 14

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Priya Ramani @priyaramani.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

The resistance will unfold on Blue Sky…or not :) This place is still dead

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Priya Ramani @priyaramani.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

The same medium, space words and format are used to promote the annihilation of democracy and the drift to shampoo bars.

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Journalists for Human Rights (JHR) @jhrnews.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

What if sharing a love story was an act of resistance? ❤️💪 On a #ValentinesDay special episode of the #JHRPodcast, we sit down w/ journalist @priyaramani.bsky.social to discuss the #IndiaLoveProject — a bold and inspiring movement celebrating interfaith, intercaste & LGBTQ+ relationships in #India.

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article-14.com @article-14.com · 09/02/2025

On 24 Feb 1990, Delhi police beat 5 young Muslim & forced to sing the national anthem. One of them died5 yrs later, a court has ordered an FIR The fact that many regard this as a victory is a tragedy, writes @betwasharma.bsky.social Subscribe to read our edit notes: article-14.com/subscribe

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article-14.com @article-14.com · 03/02/2025

Release of Santosh—film about murder of Dalit girl, contender for British Academy Awards—stuck as Censor Board stalls it, one of many films stuck, often for years. Anna M M Vetticad’s 11-month probe into #India’s growing ecosystem of censorship article-14.com/post/how-a-m...

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How A Modi-Era Ecosystem Of Official & Unofficial Censorship Is Transforming India’s Film Industries

A right-wing, pro-government, Islamophobic wave has swept India’s films, especially from Bollywood, after 2014. Although the Tamil and Malayalam film industries, in addition to independent and documen...

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article-14.com @article-14.com · 03/02/2025

Streaming companies have “internal self-censorship committees” to pre-empt govt & the mob. Film writers, producers & directors censor themselves. Anna M M Vetticad’s 11-month probe into #India’s widening ecosystem of censorship article-14.com/post/how-a-m...

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How A Modi-Era Ecosystem Of Official & Unofficial Censorship Is Transforming India’s Film Industries

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Sanjay Sipahimalani @sansip.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose.

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Priya Ramani @priyaramani.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

More “protection” for Indian women

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Priya Ramani @priyaramani.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

As Indians share stories of Trump, here’s a Monday morning reality check

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Priya Ramani @priyaramani.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

How sociopaths get a makeover. Highly recommend Say Nothing if you haven’t yet seen.

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Priya Ramani @priyaramani.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Being forced to watch R-day parade by husband. Can only hear commentators repeatedly saying words Viksit Bharat and Atmanirbhar, and drowning out gorgeous naval band

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Priya Ramani @priyaramani.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Not only do we not like dogs but we will go to any extent to ensure that others don’t like them too. If anyone knows the woman who filed the case, please connect me

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Priya Ramani @priyaramani.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Star Trek trailer looks nothing like a Star Trek movie Why

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Priya Ramani @priyaramani.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

There’s a new Star Trek film?!

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Priya Ramani @priyaramani.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

What are all the women and people of colour who voted for Trump saying?

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Betwa Sharma @betwasharma.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Since the Delhi police beat up students inside the Jamia campus on 15 Dec 2019, petitions for justice accountability/compensation have been heard 45 times in the Delhi High Court, with 15 benches/20 judges.

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Priya Ramani @priyaramani.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Nope, toddlers don’t hate women

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Priya Ramani @priyaramani.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Apart from his violent behaviour, she says he doesn’t believe women should work or vote.

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