
How Internet Memes and Mockery Became Gen Z’s Playbook for Dissent
“Sonam, it’s done, bro.” Bollywood actor Salman Khan’s post addressing scientist and social activist Sonam Wangchuk was meant to reassure the activist and his associates

“Sonam, it’s done, bro.” Bollywood actor Salman Khan’s post addressing scientist and social activist Sonam Wangchuk was meant to reassure the activist and his associates

Three years after the violence, the government can account for relief camps, security gains and expenditure. But can it account for every conflict-affected child? Three

I do not know how many young leaders in today’s student protest movements have read Gene Sharp (1928–2018), the preeminent theorist of modern nonviolent resistance.

Ministers have resigned before. Governments have yielded to public pressure before. Yet the resignation of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has a larger significance and

As the nationwide student movement gathers momentum and widens into a larger struggle for democratic rights and accountability, Kerala-based civil society collective Wake Up Keralam

I see some parallels between the IAC movement of 2011 and the CJP movement that is happening today, in 2026. The most important aspect to

ഇന്ത്യ എന്ന ലോകത്തിലെ ഏറ്റവും വലിയ ജനാധിപത്യ രാജ്യം ഇന്ന് അതിന്റെ ചരിത്രത്തിലെ ഏറ്റവും ഭയാനകവും ഇരുണ്ടതുമായ ഒരു കാലഘട്ടത്തിലൂടെയാണ് കടന്നുപോകുന്നത്. ജനാധിപത്യം എന്നത് കേവലം വോട്ടെടുപ്പുകളിലോ പാർലമെന്റ് മന്ദിരങ്ങളുടെ വലുപ്പത്തിലോ ഒതുങ്ങുന്ന ഒന്നല്ല;

In Part 2 of this series drawn from Parakala Prabhakar’s Father Stan Swamy Memorial Lecture, made at St. Patrick’s High School, Secunderabad on 11 July

The renewed debate over the place of the Manusmriti in legal education has become a larger contest over the moral foundations of the Indian republic.

Ten months after toppling one government, Nepal’s Gen Z is confronting the one it built. A brutal eviction drive, a driver’s self-immolation and a widening
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