UP police say this video is AI-generated, morphed and not from Noida. We prove that they're lying. Scroll.in

30 lakh voters (many mapped with passports) were deleted from electoral roll because of Supreme Court refusal to protect political rights due to admin delays. Lakhs of appeal. Tribunal only cleared 136 voters before voting day as ECI informed. 136 among 30 lakh voters!

Seeing many “silent crisis” reels from working Gurgaon women who are moaning the fact that their domestic workers left them in the lurch by leaving for Bengal elections. No sympathy cause many dehumanising them as Bangladeshis despite knowing they are voting after intensive SIR.

136. Out of 27 lakh. Thank you, Supreme Court of India. scroll.in/latest/1092297…

As much as I love Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar and Pehla Nasha, Awaara was a global sensation. It was beloved in countries from the Soviet Union to Africa. Here's a piece I teach on its popularity in Zanzibar, where it literally shaped perceptions of romance in the 1950s & '60s.

My current read is a Gujarati novel serialized in the 1890s. It's a hoot (a love quadrangle is introduced early): a Jane Austen-esque story set in the Parsi community of Bombay about social norms and class, family, and romance. I'm eternally grateful to professional translators!

Absolutely insane that they would do this for a leader who has absolutely zero intellectual output worth studying. Are they going to study 'pariksha pe charcha' ?? Every day this country looks more and more cooked.

Tamil Nadu today.

State of shock at the DMK office in Chennai. Scroll.in

Except Jharkhand, India's major coal fields are now in BJP-ruled states. Adani Power will grow exponentially, which will mean more displacement of Dalits, Adivasis, and agriculturist castes from their homelands, and which will mean more destruction to enviornment.

Glad you had the privilege and opportunity to grow up in New York, Snigdha. I mean, given how a majority of the Indian American population in the US is upper caste, it makes sense. Dalits could barely come here until one or two decades ago. Happy to see you acknowledge it.

He is Congress winning candidate from Farakka, Mohtab Shiekh. His name was missing from the SIR list, approached the SC, who in turn directed the SIR Tribunal to hear his case out of turn. On the last day of filing nomination his name was cleared and he won the election. Imagine

On the day BJP won a state it long coveted, its student wing ABVP stormed an auditorium at the University of Hyderabad(Univ of Hyderabad) , and attacked students staging a play. The play, Holi, was a final exam production, approved by faculty, scheduled for two nights. ABVP

URGENT: Cooch Behar area - there is a group of families being mercilessly harassed after the elections. One of the the ladies there works as a maid in Bangalore. She has been the most hardworking, honest and diligent maid I've seen in 15 years. A lot of her relatives' homes were

Almost nothing is working in Calcutta 5 May. I am out on the streets, frantically looking for a paravet for my old dog who is immobile. Most small businesses are closed. Lots of maar-peet last night, my mother's cook said. The paramilitary forces? They watched #Bengal2026

This sarpech/turban ornament from Nizam of Hyderabad’s collection should ideally be in a museum & not stiched of the back on anyone’s saree blouse for MET gala or whatever else.

The replies and abuse this post has generated have been very revealing about how people think of heritage, preferring ultra rich private collectors over museums and not recognising that museums are shared/collective/ public sites.

One question from the article makes me very uncomfortable - “Have we not lived here peacefully all our lives? Is living peacefully not development? Mangroves are not vacant land. The coast is not empty space. And the Kolis are not obstacles to modernity. Good piece which takes

V.I. Lenin was among the first international leaders to officially recognize and condemn the Jallianwala Bagh massacre. In 1920, the Soviet government issued a statement expressing solidarity with the victims.