Ustad Bismillah Khan transformed the shehnai from a ceremonial instrument into a voice of classical depth. His music carried a quiet intensity, rooted in discipline and devotion, leaving behind a legacy that still resonates with rare grace.

Sonam Wangchuk’s release after nearly six months under the National Security Act has triggered relief in Ladakh but also fuelled competing theories about the circumstances behind the Centre’s decision. While the government has described the move as an attempt to restore calm and open the door for dialogue, lawyers point to the weakness of the case against him, and political sources speak of a possible quiet effort to lower the temperature of Ladakh’s agitation.

As the war around Iran intensifies, many expected Yemen’s Houthi movement to open a new front. The group has the missiles, the drones and the strategic position along the Red Sea to disrupt global trade. Yet despite strong rhetoric and expressions of solidarity with Tehran, the Houthis have so far stayed out of the battlefield.

Iran’s clerical establishment has selected Mojtaba Khamenei as the country’s new supreme leader after the death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, marking a rare and consequential leadership transition in the Islamic Republic.

Under the glare of interceptor trails and burning debris, the retaliation has moved from rhetoric to ruin. Apartment blocks lie split open, emergency crews work through smoke and shattered concrete, and night skies once marked by city lights now glow with fire. What began as a targeted strike has unfolded into a visible, grinding exchange, measured not only in military signalling but in fractured neighbourhoods and lives disrupted.

Pakistan’s airstrikes inside Afghanistan and Kabul’s retaliation mark the sharpest clash since 2021 — not a declared war, but a dangerous escalation. Along the Durand Line, calibrated force is masking a deeper, unresolved security breakdown.

On February 26, the Kerala High Court halted the release of The Kerala Story 2, questioning its impact on communal harmony. This rare judicial pause targets a highly lucrative new cinematic formula: "grievance cinema." By inflating isolated tragedies into systemic threats, filmmakers have discovered that manufactured outrage guarantees box-office gold. But as profit increasingly aligns with polarization, what is the true cost to India's social fabric?

Listen to the Podcast in Hindi https://bit.ly/4c9HEIE Video Explainer The Lead India Has Chosen Alignment Gaza is not simply at war. It is enduring systemic devastation. According to successive reports of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, more than 30,000 Palestinians have been reported killed since October 7, 2023. Over 1.7 million people have been displaced, representing the overwhelming majority of the territory’s population. Civil

Thirty five years after that winter night in 1991, Kunan Poshpora remains a wound that never fully closed. Between denial and memory, the village stands as a stark reminder of how conflict leaves its deepest scars on women’s bodies and on a nation’s conscience.

As military deployments intensify in the Gulf and nuclear talks continue in Geneva, Iran has warned that U.S. warships are not beyond reach, signalling readiness for direct confrontation if attacked. Washington insists its posture is deterrence, not provocation. Between sanctions, strategic waterways, and fragile diplomacy, the crisis now sits at the intersection of military brinkmanship and global economic risk.

Nearly 450 deaths in custody in Jharkhand over seven years have forced a constitutional reckoning. As the High Court demands clarity on whether mandatory judicial inquiries were conducted, a larger question looms over India’s justice system: when citizens die behind locked doors, who ensures the State answers to the law?

With nearly 1.5 crore voters flagged in West Bengal’s electoral roll revision, the exercise has moved from routine correction to constitutional scrutiny. The Supreme Court of India has ordered judicial oversight, raising a sharper question: can a clean-up at this scale remain fair, proportionate and trusted?

A penal code is not symbolic — it defines the boundary of protection. By narrowing domestic violence to visible injury, the state redraws that boundary, deciding whose suffering counts and whose does not.

Over 220 Indian and international activists have issued a solidarity statement warning that renewed violence threatens the women-led democratic experiment in North and East Syria.

The CAA did not create Muslim anger; it triggered it. What followed was not a single-issue protest but the release of decades of accumulated injustice, as Muslims took to the streets not to defend abstractions, but to assert their right to exist as equal citizens.

Forty-one years after the gas tragedy, Bhopal’s survivors march each year to demand justice, holding Dow Chemical accountable while confronting decades of governmental neglect and broken promises.

The government’s decision to make the Sanchar Saathi app a compulsory, undeletable feature on every smartphone has triggered widespread anxiety. As users brace for the rollout, fears are rising over deep device access, potential surveillance, and the shrinking space for digital autonomy in India.

AIMIM’s gains in Seemanchal are not a setback for secularism but a reminder of its core promise: equal participation. The party’s rise reflects a marginalised community reclaiming political space after years of neglect. It exposes the complacency of secular parties that took Muslim support for granted. Rather than fragmenting secular politics, AIMIM pushes it to be more inclusive, accountable, and grounded in real representation.

Chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Cabinet observed a two-minute silence in memory of the victims of the November 10 explosion. Authorities believe the blast, which also left several people injured, was triggered by a suspected improvised explosive device (IED).

“When we ask for schools and hospitals, they give us guns and camps. And when we speak up, they call us Maoists.” — Soni Sori, in conversation with Karvaan India on the Adivasi struggle in Bastar.

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