As Defector turns five, the founding editor reflects on what he’s learned.

In critical cases involving pro-Palestine speech, The Intercept convinced courts to make the full dockets public.

New Delhi must rethink its economic strategies to adapt to a world where traditional free trade assumptions no longer apply.

Trump seeks to disrupt the old order with policies that he promises will reverse the fall in labour's share of the American pie. But these inchoate actions also threaten the size of the pie. The march...

In 2024, 287 Maoists were killed in Chhattisgarh, 812 arrested and 723 surrendered, making it the most successful year for the security forces, in a war of attrition spread over half a century. Senior...

The early environmentalists featured in ‘Speaking with Nature’ offer insights crucial for restoring our connection with nature. Modern India must embrace these insights to avert the looming ecological...

There is much that India can learn from Germany's remembrance of the Holocaust, though the insensitivity towards the Palestinians is a smear. Germany too can learn from India, for while India has been...

The India Forum is India’s digital destination for the best long-form comment on contemporary issues presented in a reader-friendly magazine-like style.

The search for oneself in these neoliberal times, a job market for psychologists, and the emergence of an “Indian psychology” explain the current popularity of this academic discipline in India. What ...

Panchayats and municipalities are rarely given their due as the third pillar of federalism. The challenges posed by the delimitation of parliamentary constituencies can be side-stepped by strengthenin...

State-sponsored health insurance schemes are growing by leaps and bounds in India. Ensuring that they serve the public interest rather than private profit is a major challenge. Insurance apart, what I...

Bela Bhatia fervently urges privileged groups to recognise and respond to the struggles of the marginalised. She acknowledges caste’s influence, but does not fully confront its pervasive role, instead...

Ahead of the AI Action summit in Paris earlier this week, civil society groups raised the environmental costs of artificial intelligence.

Given the high degree of informality in the Indian economy, national employment surveys have drawn up complex instructions to capture all those who work. This however also comes with the risk that mis...

Since it was created in 2015, NITI Aayog has neither been able to offer fresh thinking on the economy nor has it functioned as a a mediator between the centre and the states. A federal institution fac...

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...

Our approach to estimating life expectancy losses in this study is conservative as it ignores the indirect effect of the war on mortality. Even ignoring this indirect effect, results show that the ong...

Neoliberalism has empowered India’s big capital to control the state, reversing an earlier relationship. Capital, once subordinate and nationally defined, now dominates and defines the nation, using t...

Meta India VP apologizes for Mark Zuckerberg's incorrect remarks on India's 2024 elections, debunked by Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw.

He calls Muslims Pakistani pimps, green pigs and green snakes; threatens to strip, beat them and urges Hindus to boycott them and demolish mosques. The police have filed—on court directions—20 first i...

On 28 February 2020, the Delhi police booked six Muslim men, aged between 28 and 58, on allegations of rioting and arson. Before getting bail, two men were jailed—one for 15 days and the other for 75 ...

From Moldova to Mexico, these conflicts are currently flying under the radar but could emerge as major flash points.

Remember the fabled tortoise and hare story. A bullock cart proved a winner when it pulled out a Ferrari stuck in sand at a beach in Alibaug near Mumbai, showed a video.

The films may not have spoken directly to the politics of hate, inequality, oligarchy and unfreedoms of our age. But most did speak incandescently of love, of friendship and of kindness in ways that w...

Geoffrey Hinton says there is 10% to 20% chance AI will lead to human extinction in three decades, as change moves fast

Balancing popular desire for immediate justice with the principle of due process is a delicate act, especially when there is distrust against the system and frustrations at delays. The tensions unders...

The renowned director has died at the age of 90.

The COP29 climate talks in Baku, billed as the finance COP, ended in disappointment for developing countries. It fell short of providing the financial support needed to transition from fossil fuels, t...

With its focus on growth and efficiency, mainstream Economics in the US has by and large ignored inequality. As a result, it has not tackled the big question: Is American capitalism today compatible w...

Decades after Independence, we are yet to provide health care for all. Insurance is no answer. We need to identify strategies to bolster the foundation of India’s health system based on equality and j...

The couple married in March under the Special Marriage Act and registered their marriage with the Consulate General of India, San Francisco.

“We will look back and say, ‘Why did we not do more earlier?” Amnesty's director tells Zeteo.

Chinese Crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun paid $6.2 million for a banana — sold by Sotheby's as conceptual art — and then ate it last Friday.

The Philadelphia school ordered teachers to “stay neutral” on Israel’s war on Gaza, but they helped students make pro-Palestine posters.

More than two years after the Supreme Court granted bail, Mohammed Zubair faces his gravest criminal case yet, “endangering sovereignty, unity and integrity” of India, which carries a maximum punishme...

All faiths in India have institutions for charity, all are governed by unique laws, so too the Waqf. While waqfs need reform, the 2024 Amendment Bill, unlike past laws, seeks not to improve governance...

A new book depicts a period of spy history—and U.S.-India cooperation—that bears some resemblance to our own.

Israeli forces continue to inflict death an destruction on the people of Gaza, nothing less than a crime against humanity. What are Israel’s objectives? As the world watches, it is crucial to understa...

Gautam Adani and his associates were accused of paying more than $250 million in bribes to obtain lucrative solar energy contracts.