From The Newsroom

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 […]

On November 4, 2025, Zohran Kwame Mamdani stopped being just another mayoral candidate and became something else entirely. New York State Assemblyman, longtime housing organiser, and democratic socialist, Mamdani emerged as one of the most unexpected political figures of the year. To his supporters, he is New York City’s half-Indian, half-Ugandan messiah; possibly a symbol […]