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How India uses national interest as a smokescreen to muzzle the media

The Indian government is weaponising ‘national interest’ measures to close down reporting it deems critical of the Modi government.

2 days ago

India’s electronic voting machines have a trust problem

Criticism of EVMs is legitimate, but it shouldn't overwhelm the devices' potential to strengthen democracy

3 days ago

How news gatherers can respond to social media challenge

Print and electronic media are coping admirably with the upheavals being wrought by social media.

1 week ago

The corporate takeover of India’s media

Press freedom in India has been badly hit by the gobbling up of media platforms by a few large companies.

1 week ago

The curious case of Google Trends in India

For nine of the last ten years, the most searches were for why Apple products and Evian water are so…

2 weeks ago

Is India on the cusp of a nuclear energy renaissance?

Removing institutional bottlenecks will attract foreign and domestic participation in India’s nuclear energy programme.

4 weeks ago

Live-in lover law opens door to attacks on freedoms

Whimsical and capricious behaviour by public officials is not the sign of a democratic polity, but an absolutist one. The…

1 month ago

‘Angry, hopeless, depressed’ – Rohingya voices from Cox’s Bazar

The poor conditions at the world’s largest refugee camps have affected both the physical and mental health of the one…

2 months ago

How the Houthis have threatened the global shipping order

The Houthi attacks on ships may offer the region a chance to reinvent how it deals with supply chain disruptions.

2 months ago

Access to water is a crisis for the powerless

Fair access to water is an issue for millions of people in India. Who controls access and how this is…

2 months ago