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Parliament passes Transgender bill. India takes away the trans right to self identify, among other things. This is lawfare on queer bodies! When rights start disappearing, it starts with minorities. Always.

. @midlandbook, Aurobindo Market, has a stock of Indian-edition copies of the great Ghassan Kanafani’s novella, Men in the Sun. Get your copies from the shop. 👇🏼

"India is prone to elite capture and a weakened rule of law. And so, will this domestic military-industrial complex create jobs and forex earnings," or will it drag India into a "permanent war economy"? @project_polis did a deep dive: thepolisproject.com/read/india-def…

What connects Bastar to Leh protests? Watch

One month before Himanta Biswa joined BJP, their own booklet named him a "prime suspect" in a bribery scandal. Then he crossed over. The files went missing. How does a Congress fixer become Hindutva's most zealous face in the northeast? Subscribe to read newslaundry.com/2026/03/23/him…

"nothing but a veiled threat, and I recognise it for exactly what it is" Law student Rishi (@arekayinn)’s response to university authorities trying to silence him for writing about judicial corruption & overreach is sheer guts in the face of intimidation arekay.substack.com/p/i-wrote-abou…

Back when I was a city reporter in #Delhi, we'd all work on stories like this one 👇🏾 Regardless of the beat. Now, we have to go on AlJazeera to read local news that is reliable. All of Delhi news rn now is election, rain, LPG. Zero public interest. aljazeera.com/features/longf…

When we discarded the wisdom of the Nehruvian Mixed Economy that vested strategic sectors with the PSUs, what we have is an emergent Military Industrial Complex, a new "Permanent War Economy" that feeds into a permanent State of Exception. Read this chilling investigation.

#US Report: A federal immigration crackdown turned #Minnesota into something residents call an “occupation.” This has led to communities building novel modes of resistance. 👉Our report on #ICE’s expanding power and its human cost: thepolisproject.com/read/immigrati…

On 18 March 2026, one of our tweets was blocked in India following an order from the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology under Section 69A of the IT Act, 2000. The tweet posted on 14 March 2026 (screenshot attached below) is now inaccessible in India; however, the content remains available elsewhere. The correspondence we received from X support did not contain any information on the reasons for this blocking order. The tweet was an excerpt from our December 2022 report titled “The submission of India Today Group.” Read the entire report here: caravanmagazine.in/media/india-to…

In November 2024, @project_polis and I started taking a closer look at India's plans to become a self-reliant weapons exporter. How this ambition has played out on the ground is alarming at multiple levels (from national security to militarisation within India). Do read.

India’s defense boom is outpacing the Army’s ability to absorb it! With excess capacity, firms are turning to paramilitary and police, driving military-grade tech into domestic conflicts and accelerating hypermilitarization. Our new investigation lays it all out: thepolisproject.com/read/india-def…

Absolutely shameful attack on press freedom. #UNI

@Dipankar_cpiml Utterly shameful and horrifying

Delhi Police rough up journalists and employees and seal #UNI office in Delhi. Could the attack on press get more physical? This police action must not be allowed to be normalised. #StandWithUNI #FreedomOfPress

More and more Indian conglomerates are tying up with Israeli arms manufacturers. India risks becoming a channel for Israeli arms reaching countries reluctant to buy from Tel Aviv directly. Why is this happening? Latest @project_polis report explains: thepolisproject.com/read/india-def…

India wants to be a global arms exporter. But who will buy these weapons? What will be the impact at home? A deep dive into India’s defense boom and the dangerous glut it's creating. 👉🏼New investigation by the Polis Project: thepolisproject.com/read/india-def…

Exclusive: The Cuban government refused a request by the U.S. Embassy in Havana to import diesel fuel for its generators this week, calling the ask “shameless,” given the Trump administration’s fuel blockade on the island, according to diplomatic cables. wapo.st/47OlZCL

Survivor recounts Pune Iftar attack: An armed mob assaulted 14 Muslim youth causing grievous injuries, hurled communal slurs, tore their clothes & told them, 'Muslims can’t sit here'. A week on, why no arrests yet? @onkeyta_ asked the case officer. Read: altnews.in/they-said-musl…

Many congratulations to @NidhiSuresh_ on winning Kamla Mankekar Award for Journalism on Gender 2025. All the work she puts into a story, the patience she brings to it, is something we’ve seen in the newsroom. The last 2 years have given us some of her best work.

The news cycle can be overwhelming and confusing. To help you make sense of it all, every week, Polis Project founder Suchitra Vijayan (@suchitrav ) answers three questions breaking it all down.