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Ray’s Nayak—restored and re-examined six decades on—offers a searing portrait of fame, conscience, and modernity on the move.

REMEMBERING RAY

Still on the rails: Ray’s Nayak and the restless shadow of a star

Kannada filmmaker Girish Kasaravalli says that Satyajit Ray’s realism was coupled with lyricality, a sort of lyrical humanism.

REMEMBERING RAY

Satyajit Ray tried to bring in a new kind of minimalistic idiom into cinema: Girish Kasaravalli

The director reflects on his first impressions of Ray’s work, non-linear narratives, and the revolution he brought to cinematic storytelling.

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People take a boat ride in the waters of Indus River near the Lansdowne Bridge in Sukkur, in the southern Sindh province, on April 28, 2025. India, furious after a deadly attack, has suspended the Indus Waters Treaty with Pakistan, with Islamabad warning any attempt to stop water flows would be considered an “act of war”.

INDIA-PAKISTAN RELATIONS

The Indus Waters Treaty and the options ahead

Re-negotiating the treaty or negotiating an entirely new treaty is Pakistan’s most viable option and also India’s larger objective.

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U. Sagayam, a former Legal Commissioner and Special Officer of the Madras High Court, who exposed the massive granite scam in Tamil Nadu in 2014.

Granite scam whistleblower IAS officer “fears for life” after State withdraws security

After exposing a massive mining scam in Tamil Nadu, Sagayam IAS says he fears for his life as probes implicate top officials and political figures.

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An enumerator collects information from residents during the caste-based survey in Bihar on August 2, 2023. The Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs decided on April 30, 2025, to include caste enumeration in the forthcoming census.

Caste comes to the census: BJP’s tactical shift ahead of Bihar election

After resisting for over a decade, the Modi government agrees to include caste in the census. Opposition calls the move a win for social justice.

Despite legal safeguards, the coal project is moving forward, sparking fierce Adivasi resistance and exposing the contradictions in the State government’s development model.

Deocha-Pachami is not development. It’s dispossession in disguise

Framed as progress, the coal project commodifies Adivasi land, flouts forest rights, and replaces dignity with surveillance, fear, and fragile jobs.

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Hasdeo Arand and the manufacturing of tribal consent

What Kerala’s temple dress code row reveals about faith, caste, and religious reform

A broken hiring system has spawned the Rs.300 crore cash-for-jobs scam in Goa

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UGC’s new university leadership rules could imperil academic independence

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Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks to supporters on stage at his campaign headquarters after the Liberal Party won the Canadian election in Ottawa, Tuesday, April 29, 2025.

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Former JNU student leader and activist Umar Khalid during an anti-Citizenship Act protest at Red Fort in New Delhi on December 19, 2019. Khalid, along with the activist Gulfisha Fatima and 10 others, has remained incarcerated without bail for over five years, with trial still pending.

Kapil Mishra, Umar Khalid, and the unequal weight of justice

The documentary filmmaker says that the appropriation of Ambedkar is taking place, alongside critical thinking and allyship.

Youth are questioning marginalisation and creating art, music, stand-up comedy: Jyoti Nisha

The young Ambedkarite filmmaker, who is out with a new documentary, says she made the film on the Dalit icon because “film is a powerful medium”.

A still from Phule. The film, directed by Ananth Mahadevan, predominantly projects the Phule couple as “educators” and shies away from projecting them as radical critiques of different precepts of Hindu dharma.

Phule: A portrayal of compromised radicality

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The former ISRO chairman passed away in Bengaluru, Karnataka, on April 25, 2025. A staunch proponent of self-reliance, he pushed for Indian leadership in cutting-edge technologies, from segmented mirror systems to space science labs.

K. Kasturirangan (1940–2025): Scientist, policymaker, mentor

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