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5 days ago | 
thequint.com | Arka Bhaduri |Rakhi Bose
Over 250 people have been arrested so far in connection with the violence in Murshidabad which left three dead. Days after communal violence rocked several parts of West Bengal's Murshidabad district, the usually busy Dhuliyan market area bore a subdued look. On Tuesday, 14 April, the day of Nobo Borsho (Bengali New Year), only a few sweet shops opened their shutters in the morning.
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1 week ago | 
thequint.com | Rakhi Bose
A viral video of men threatening Bengali fish sellers to move the market away from a temple has left CR Park astir. Dibyendu Das was a busy man on 9 April, a day after a video depicting a self-proclaimed group of ‘sanatani’ men threatening Bengali fish sellers, including Das, at the posh Market No. 1 of Chittaranjan Park in Delhi went viral.
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2 weeks ago | 
thequint.com | Rakhi Bose
While Allahbadia, Samay Raina and others seem to have been forgiven, 'The Rebel Kid' continues to be abused online. “We were worried about vaginas. We were worried what we think about vaginas, and even more worried that we don’t think about them”. Much like Eve Ensler’s anonymous women from The Vagina Monologues, the anonymous trolls sending rape and death threats to internet personality Apoorva Mukhija on social media today ironically seem to be living the same conundrum. They worry.
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1 month ago | 
thequint.com | Rakhi Bose
Amid the shock of mass detentions and the sudden demolition of protest sites, farmers seemed to be in a disarray. It's been four days since Gurpinder Singh has heard from his 71-year-old father Jagjit Singh Dallewal. The Bharatiya Kisan Union (Ekta-Sidhupur) leader had been on an intermittent hunger strike for the past 115 days at the Khanauri border, where he was camped since February last year.
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1 month ago | 
outlookindia.com | Jacinta Kerketta |Rakhi Bose
National After having declared Prakrits to be classical, it is redundant to accord the status to the modern-day new Indic languages. It is nothing but the politics of appeasement.
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1 month ago | 
thequint.com | Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay |Rakhi Bose
This is not the first time Modi has praised Sufism, writes Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent speech at the Jahan-e-Khusrau Sufi music festival in New Delhi left many of his fans – and detractors – surprised. Extending wishes for the month of Ramzan, he went on to praise the Sufi tradition as an integral part of India’s pluralistic heritage.
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1 month ago | 
thequint.com | Rakhi Bose |Shelly Walia
Police state that the accused called the survivor “sister” and pretended to be an employee at the bus depot. Lavanya Anand, 28, a migrant worker from Jharkhand who works at an office in Maharashtra's Pune, is a frequent commuter from the busy Swargate depot and sometimes takes the same bus route as the 26-year-old woman allegedly raped inside a parked state-run bus last week. “I lived in New Delhi before this and always thought Maharashtra was safer for women in that way.
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2 months ago | 
outlookindia.com | Rakhi Bose |Snigdhendu Bhattacharya
A survivor of the massacre at Nellie in 1983 Photo: Santosh BASAK/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images A survivor of the massacre at Nellie in 1983 Photo: Santosh BASAK/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images The dawn of February 18, 1983, brought a bloodbath at Nellie, a nondescript gram panchayat in what was then the Nogaon district (now Morigaon) of Assam.
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2 months ago | 
outlookindia.com | Rakhi Bose
Radical Love Magazine cover Radical Love Magazine cover Outlook's Valentine's Day 2025 issue is on love and loneliness in the era of technology. You can read more from the latest issue here. As Valentine’s Day draws near, Outlook revisits its August 2023 issue, ‘Radical Love,’ which delved into the diverse, evolving understanding of love and intimacy in modern India.
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2 months ago | 
thequint.com | Rakhi Bose
Locals belonging to both Meitei and Kuki-Zo communities say the chief minister should have resigned a long time ago. It was at the end of a long Sunday at work on a construction site when Joshua Hangsing, a daily-wage worker displaced for nearly two years, saw the news flash on his phone. N Biren Singh had resigned from his post as Manipur chief minister, 649 days after the start of the ethnic violence that killed Joshua's wife Meena and their seven-year-old son Tonsing.
