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In today’s segment of “Twin It to Win It”, find the similarities between Sydney Sweeney, Kim Kardashian, Erika Kirk, and Nora Fatehi. This list may seem odd, but all of the above personalities share a similar trait in common. Ding ding ding, Yes, you guessed it right- they are all feminist icons! All the above […]
At 3:12 a.m., he was transferred from one detention facility to another. If you open the government record, that moment appears clean and controlled: a recorded time, a new location, and a line confirming a transfer. What the record leaves out is his earlier request for medical attention, his family’s hope that he might finally […]
On February 7, 2026, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) hosted a two-day centenary celebration at Mumbai’s Nehru Centre Auditorium. The event drew widespread attention as Bollywood actors and filmmakers, including Ranbir Kapoor, Salman Khan, Subhash Ghai, Vicky Kaushal, Karan Johar, and Akshay Kumar, graced the occasion. Headed by Mohan Bhagwat, the RSS is an Indian […]
It appears to me that in this era of social media and Influencers, almost anything can be packaged, romanticised, and sold. Or perhaps, the real product is not love, but the audience who believes everything on the screen to be true, or at least something worth aspiring to. As it is, I know I am […]
Bajrang Dal, founded in 1984, describes itself as a Hindu youth organisation that works towards the protection of religious values, cultural services, and social work. Officially, the organisation claims to engage in ‘constructive activities’ such as maintaining temples and order during religious gatherings, protecting sacred animals like cows and providing relief during any climate. Unfortunately, […]
On January 13th, 2026, the University Grants Commission issued a notification, officially known as the Promotion of Equity in Higher Education Institutions, aimed at strengthening the 2012 guidelines. The Supreme Court said that these guidelines are not being implemented by the universities, and there is no fast-track action. The revised guidelines came into existence in […]
If Bollywood once measured success by the box office, Gen Z, like always, has a different scale: sold-out nights, Instagram flexes, and how loudly a crowd screams the lyrics in a language that has been termed “niche” by the mainstream for a long time. I must confess, there is something deeply unserious about the Indian […]
India has long been structured by the caste system embedded within Hindu society, which is still operational and actively continues to discriminate amongst the various caste strata that it defines. The community located at the bottom, beyond the precincts of this caste hierarchy, is that of the Dalits. Rooted in the Brahmanical belief that their […]
Imagine: It is election season, and your university does not look like itself. Colourful banners with intriguing political party symbols hang near the gates, not officially inside campus, but close enough to be seen every morning. Someone from a political party’s youth wing is handing out pamphlets outside the canteen. A speaker discusses opportunities, jobs, […]
India’s judicial system stands at a moment of reckoning. On December 29, 2025, the Supreme Court stayed the suspension of Kuldeep Sengar’s life sentence after the Unnao survivor returned to the streets of Delhi to protest. Six years after conviction, justice once again required visibility, noise, and exhaustion from the very person it was meant […]
