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does anyone else miss the time when autos in Delhi used to have running metres?

In India, lynchings are not "episodic lawlessness", they are "a structural form of political violence" @BurhanMajid points out in this well argued oped in @IndianExpress

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Open Access | The Sangh is neither infinite nor unknowable. A special investigation that Felix Pal helped lead, conducted over a period of six years, with data now housed at Science Po’s Centre de recherches internationales, and fact-checked and released by The Caravan, has constructed the world’s first network map of the RSS, revealing over twenty-five hundred organisations with concrete, traceable, material ties leading to the Sangh. What the world’s first network map of the RSS, revealing over twenty-five hundred organisations with concrete, traceable, material ties leading to the organisation, tell us about how the Sangh functions, Felix Pal (@FelixPal8) explains: caravanmagazine.in/politics/unvei… Explore the network map here: rssproject.caravanmagazine.in

At its prime, #Outlook was where readers went for stories mainstream newspapers were wary of touching. It cultivated a generation of reporters who shaped Indian journalism. Much of this reputation was built under Vinod Mehta—a maverick who gave Outlook its irreverent, adversarial tone and,trusted reporters to pursue stories to their logical, often uncomfortable, end. Today, the magazine is different. It has drifted away from reportage and workplace conditions have deteriorated. Current and former staffers spoke of an organisation in chaos: a newsroom increasingly run by the CEO alongside an unpredictable and volatile editor, erratic decision-making at the top and a collapse of systems that once enabled and protected reporters. They described a “toxic” environment, burnout, mental-health crises and a newsroom in such disarray that even basic workflow boundaries are unclear. What remains is a magazine living off the credit accumulated in its first two decades, while the infrastructure that produced that work is steadily hollowed out from within. Shahid Tantray (@shahidtantray) reports: caravanmagazine.in/media/dismantl…

Today marks the second anniversary of the killing of Dr. Refaat Alareer. Refaat and members of his family were murdered on December 6, 2023, when Israeli occupation air forces carried out an airstrike on his sister’s home in northern Gaza. He was a Palestinian academic, writer, and poet from the Gaza Strip, often described as a pioneer of English‑language Palestinian literature. He taught literature and creative writing at the Islamic University of Gaza and co‑founded the “We Are Not Numbers” project, which sought to amplify the voices and suffering of Gazans in the aftermath of Israel’s genocide against Gaza. Some of his words remain etched in memory: “If I must die, then you must live to tell my story, to sell my belongings and buy a piece of cloth and some string, making it white with a long tail so that a child, somewhere in Gaza, seeing the kite, my kite, that you made fly high, may believe for a moment that it is an angel returning to him with love. If I am destined to die, let my death bring hope. Let my death become a tale.”

#CourtRoomMemories The judge had thrown my case file in exactly the same way. I told him, ‘It may be just a file for you, but for me it is my life.’ They don’t know how to decide cases, all they know is how to throw files.

"First you enter illegally, and then you ask for benefits and facilities here," CJI Surya Kant observed. Read more: bitl.to/5O9B #SupremeCourt #Rohingya #CJISuryaKant

In a significant order, the Allahabad High Court has issued a sweeping direction to the entire administrative machinery of Uttar Pradesh to ensure that individuals in the state who have converted to Christianity do not continue to avail benefits meant for Scheduled Castes (SC). Read more: gogl.to/3rNo #allahabadhighcourt

GAZA 2025.

Children lie on the wet ground and cover their thin bodies with bags, under the heavy rain flooding the Gaza Strip.

Children of Gaza. #GazaStarving

PTI clicked the picture, NDTV deleted it — it went viral online. But who's the boy in it and why was he at India Gate? Akshay E R, a third-year LLB student at Delhi University, from Kerala. His father is a daily wage labourer; his mother is a homemaker. newslaundry.com/2025/11/25/not…

Bench rises. Hearing to continue tomorrow. Justice Kumar: it may be taken up after the preliminary work is over. Anytime after 12:30pm. Raju: there is evidence. Whether it is true, reliable is not a matter of consideration now. The fact is there is evidence.

The mother of the child, Riad Al-Hams, is urging the world to save her son, who is suffering from spinal cord cancer, after his condition deteriorated and any delay now poses a threat to his life.

This is outright legal malpractice and raises serious questions about the fairness of the trial. She should be taken off the case immediately. It is a shame how quickly some lawyers forget their duty when the cameras come on. Truly appalling.

Gaza’s children swallowed by the flood of rainwater, with no tent to shield them from the biting winter cold and no warmth to guard their fragile childhood from a world far too harsh.

The criminal justice system offers bail as a remedy, aligned with the principle of 'innocent until proven guilty'. However, the conditions that merit granting bail paint a different picture.

'unable to identify them due to the extensive mutilation and disfigurement inflicted upon them while in "israeli" captivity.'

They are still digging up mass graves of Palestinians killed by the Israeli army, not that the world notices or cares