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Inciting communalism and violence is a crime. How much further must the media head into Radio Rwanda zone before one is allowed to call it out?

Editor’s Note: Boycotting hate speech anchors not an attack on press freedom

Media’s role in inciting communalism and violence must be called out.

A roadside vendor in Leh on August 22.

Editor’s Note: New Delhi must see Ladakh beyond border security

The Centre’s focus on border security is putting the people and the environment of Ladakh at risk.

Women activists take part in a demonstration to condemn the violence against women and the ongoing ethnic violence in India’s north-eastern state of Manipur, in Ahmedabad on August 10.

Editor’s Note: Therefore, we must talk about Manipur—again

India hoped for a statesmanlike address from Prime Minister Modi on the Manipur crisis, but instead got a raucous political rally.

Mrinal Sen’s cinema might not be an easy outing: you don’t exactly get a tale on a plate with all the ends neatly tied up.

Editor’s Note: Mrinal Sen shattered our illusions about life and cinema

Introducing a new cinematic idiom, Sen challenged conventions and forced the audience to confront unsettling questions.

It is difficult to imagine India’s right-wing parties as champions of women’s rights.

Editor’s Note: Let’s not use Uniform Civil Code to wipe out differences

It needs to guarantee equality within communities and between men and women rather than force equality between communities.

A still from “The Elephant Whisperers”.

Editor’s Note: Is the Great Indian Documentary on the cusp of an epochal shift?

From historical chronicles to political dissent and beyond, documentaries have come a long way in India.

Editor’s Note: Militarised Manipur stares at a civil war

How could the State and the Centre allow the situation to escalate to this level?

Editor’s Note: India’s worst train accident since 1995

There is evidence that the Railways is plagued by systemic neglect and callous disregard for safety.

Editor’s Note: Can Karnataka give us a governance model to emulate?

Considering the various issues in which the State is mired, the incoming Congress government faces a daunting task.

Violence visualised

Naveen Kishore’s ‘In a Cannibal Time’ is a photographer’s attempt to render in images scenes of intense agony and shame.

Naveen Kishore,Vaishna Roy

Editor’s Note: What does the Karnataka election result portend?

It is an important one because the Congress won decisively against a party that fought purely on divisive terms.

Editor’s Note: Impunity for the state means impunity for the mobs

To replace a slow-paced and seriously flawed judicial system with “instant” justice via vigilantism is to stare into the abyss of anarchy.

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