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She has danced pregnant, in bondage gear, and drenched in what looks like menstrual blood – all to unleash the monsters lurking within her and all of us. We meet the unstoppable performer rocking the flamenco world

 

What's good for black-backed woodpeckers is good for restoring California's burning forests. The unique relationship between birds and fire supports the

When Chinese law professor Xu Zhangrun began publishing articles last year criticizing the government’s turn toward a harsher variety of authoritarianism, it seemed inevitable that he would be swiftly silenced. But then, remarkably, dozens of prominent citizens began speaking up. Some signed a petition, others wrote essays and poems in Xu’s support, and one wrote a song. To

From Granville Austin’s ‘The Indian Constitution’ to Malika Amar Shaikh’s ‘I Want to Destroy Myself’, a list of essential reading.

An independent India reading list

The police filed FIRs for the killing of villagers only after their kin filed petition, provided an account riddled with inconsistencies, detained the petitioners before their testimony was recorded, yet the Supreme Court chose to believe the state and punish those who knocked on its doors.

The BJP’s choice of presidential candidate is electorally strategic but politically dishonest – for the reality of its ‘sabka saath, sabka vikas’ slogan for Adivasis is that they must sacrifice their lands and resources for other people’s vikas.

The BJP and Congress are on the same page when it comes to treating Adivasis as less than citizens.

Bushfires in Australia have been reported on regularly since the 19th century. Revisiting these reports shows shifting attitudes towards disaster.