Staff Writer

A tweet by NDTV Senior Editor Aditya Raj Kaul referring to Iran as a “terrorist regime” during the Israel–Iran conflict has triggered criticism over journalistic neutrality. The post was later deleted after backlash, with critics saying such language violates established standards of reporting.

Nearly a century after Gandhi began the Salt March on this day in 1930, the man who once stood at the moral centre of India’s freedom struggle occupies a far more uncertain place in the nation’s imagination. Revered, criticised and frequently reinterpreted, Gandhi today is less a saintly icon than a figure whose ideas continue to provoke debate about the meaning of power, resistance and democracy in modern India.

Habib Jalib did not merely write poetry; he turned it into an act of defiance. In an age of dictatorships and fearful silence, his voice stood with workers, students and ordinary citizens, refusing to legitimise unjust power.