India has a new sugar riddle
National Heraldby Jaideep Hardikar29 Aug 2026
India has a new sugar riddle ...and it’s not all down to diverting sugar and equivalents to ethanol production.
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top 64%Sonia Gandhi memoir row: 3 issues that sparked a showdown with Penguin
India Newsby Aseem Sharma29 Aug 2026
INDIA Sonia Gandhi’s memoir has hit a roadblock in India after Penguin Random House declined to publish it. Check the points of disagreement.
Not exactly a hero’s welcome
National Heraldby Ashis Ray29 Aug 2026
Not exactly a hero’s welcome ‘Universal Oneness’ is not an idea anyone associates with the RSS, not even RSS diehards, writes Ashis Ray On 25 August, RSS supremo Mohan Bhagwat landed in New York...
What is this ‘Lakshmi Maxxing’?
New Indian Expressby Aparna Nair29 Aug 2026
In a world of complicated existence, ‘maxxing’ has emerged as an internet blueprint for tuning oneself towards focused energy.
The Stories We Inherit: Love and memory shape kinship across generations
Open Magazineby Suvir Saran29 Aug 2026
The Stories We Inherit: Love and memory shape kinship across generations BEFORE BIJI UNCLE says anything, his eyes have already entered the conversation.
In the Spanish city of Valencia, fascist squads patrol the streets
El País Englishby Joaquín Gil29 Aug 2026
They call themselves the “Angels of the Night.” On paper, they present themselves as a grassroots neighborhood group alarmed by rising crime in Valencia.
Six months without El Mencho in Mexico
El País Englishby Pablo Ferri29 Aug 2026
Mexico is becoming accustomed to life without El Mencho, a towering figure in the continent’s criminal narrative who evaded justice for years while building his formidable criminal empire.
Religious freedom on downward trajectory in India: US body
New Indian Expressby PTI29 Aug 2026
WASHINGTON: A bipartisan US body claimed that religious freedom conditions in India remained on the downward trajectory in 2026, citing restrictions on activities of NGOs, censorship and...
‘Homo and Juliet’: These real-life love stories do the task of making queer domesticity visible
Scroll.inby Arundhati Ghosh29 Aug 2026
Queer love has a way of dismantling inherited ways of life with inhabited feelings of desire that compel every person – queer or not yet – to introspect their own trysts with romance, with an...
Ladakh: A federalism lesson for New Delhi
The South Firstby Luv Puri29 Aug 2026
Synopsis: Ladakh is a test case of repeated failure to get the institutional design right precisely because of the lack of nuanced understanding of the region, a challenge even Prime Minister PV...
When the mantra of Vande Mataram lit the fire of freedom in Nizam’s territory
The Hinduby Serish Nanisetti29 Aug 2026
The ‘B’ Hostel of Osmania University has its door boarded up. The ‘A’ Hostel of OU is now walled up. “That building has collapsed. Don’t go there.
Dimagi Naxals? The sages of the Vedas and the Upanishads would qualify today
Scroll.inby Tuhin Bhattacharjee29 Aug 2026
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s newly minted phrase dimagi Naxal – “intellectual Naxal” – is meant to designate an ideological enemy: people whose ideas supposedly endanger the nation by questioning...
What keeps Filipino political dynasties in power – a Rappler series
Rapplerby Rappler.com29 Aug 2026
AT A GLANCE - The 1987 Constitution prohibits political dynasties, but no legislation has been enacted to limit political power concentration in families.
Defining industry: In with the old, on with the new
New Indian Expressby Dr SR Keshava28 Aug 2026
The landmark verdict delivered on August 20 by the Supreme Court regarding the legal definition of ‘industry’ preserves the 1978 framework for old disputes, while leaving the new Labour Codes to...
Gen Z vs Haryana khap panchayats: Old rules, new rebels
The Hinduby Ashok Kumar28 Aug 2026
Anchal, an M.A. student and a resident of Igra village, Jind district, posted a video on social media satirising khap panchayats, the powerful but unelected community bodies dominated by elderly...
From policy institute to parade ground, By Nuhu Mohammed
Premium Timesby Premium Times28 Aug 2026
The NIPSS experience, as recounted in this memoir, serves as a cautionary tale about what happens when leadership development becomes divorced from its foundational principles.
Literature is more powerful than history: Su. Venkatesan
The Hinduby K Muralitharan28 Aug 2026
Literature is more powerful than merely writing history directly. Sahitya Akademi award-winning writer and Member of Parliament Su.
When Content Is Infinite, Point of View Becomes the Scarce Asset
Unite.AIby Alex McFarland28 Aug 2026
Generative AI is making competent content easier to produce. It can assemble a clear explanation, smooth an awkward draft, propose a structure, and imitate almost any familiar style.
Nigeria’s sovereign cloud: Beyond data control to digital independence, By Fom Gyem
Premium Timesby Premium Times28 Aug 2026
A credible sovereign cloud ecosystem could stimulate investment in data centres, fibre networks, renewable and conventional energy solutions, cybersecurity services and specialised technology...
Timeline: Life of Ratko Mladic, general turned ‘Butcher of Bosnia’
Al Jazeeraby Alex Milan Durie28 Aug 2026
Ratko Mladic, a war criminal convicted for his role in orchestrating the Srebrenica Genocide in 1995 – the first genocide on European soil since the second world war – died in prison in The Hague...