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21/06/2025

Iran, long accused of stifling dissent and orchestrating widespread censorship, has intensified its crackdown on journalists, civil society actors, and political dissidents under the guise of safeguarding national security. The veil of wartime urgency, it would appear, has served well to mask a more sinister domestic agenda, writes Manu Shrivastava.

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19/06/2025

| Despite local noise by a handful of naysayers over the Colaba Jetty, Mumbai is all set to sail ahead with 11 Candela P-12 electric commuter ferries. From Stockholm’s waters to the Arabian Sea, a greener future rises — fast, quiet, and fiercely innovative.

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19/06/2025

For the thousands of Indians who now call Canada home—whether as students pacing snow-lined campuses, professionals steering the country’s tech backbone, or families still finding their place between curry leaves and Canadian maple—something quietly monumental happened this week.

Read the report by Manu Shrivastava for The Draft: https://tinyurl.com/mt5mbevx

The Draft is a news portal of DraftCraft International. It publishes news, reports, features, analysis and commentaries from India & Beyond Borders

19/06/2025

It has taken years of diplomatic friction, multiple international snubs, mounting evidence and, most pertinently, a resilient India refusing to relent — but at long last, Canada has conceded that its territory was indeed exploited by Khalistani elements to foster terrorism in India.

Read the commentary by Gajanan Khergamker on The Draft: https://tinyurl.com/y27p3uzb

The Draft is a news portal of DraftCraft International. It publishes news, reports, features, analysis and commentaries from India & Beyond Borders

12/06/2025

Some twin-engine failures make it to history books as miracles. Ahmedabad’s didn’t. No gliding, no soft landing, no survivors—just the cruel truth that even the most advanced aircraft can fall prey to impossible odds over unforgiving terrain, writes Gajanan Khergamker.

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12/06/2025

From fog-shrouded Chiloda in 1988 to the fiery wreckage of Meghani Nagar in 2025, Ahmedabad has witnessed two aviation disasters that exposed deep flaws in India's flight safety systems. Decades apart, these tragedies underscore a single truth: progress in aviation means little without vigilance, reform, and accountability, writes Prachi Desai.

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12/06/2025

From fog-shrouded Chiloda in 1988 to the fiery wreckage of Meghani Nagar in 2025, Ahmedabad has witnessed two aviation disasters that exposed deep flaws in India's flight safety systems. Decades apart, these tragedies underscore a single truth: progress in aviation means little without vigilance, reform, and accountability, writes Prachi Desai.

Read the full report on The Draft: https://tinyurl.com/4k5ve2xb

The Draft is a news portal of DraftCraft International. It publishes news, reports, features, analysis and commentaries from India & Beyond Borders

10/06/2025

A handful of residential associations across India have evolved from stakeholders to saboteurs—not by statutory expansion, but by strategic self-promotion. They brand themselves as the voice of the people while representing a gated minority. They cite public inconvenience while pushing private agendas. And now, emboldened by media manipulation and social amplification, they pursue proxy politics dressed up as participative democracy.

Read the full commentary by Gajanan Khergamker: https://tinyurl.com/Colaba-Jetty-0601

10/06/2025

When the Maharashtra Maritime Board (MMB) filed an affidavit before the Bombay High Court defending its long-planned public jetty project, it did more than just respond to a writ petition by a Colaba Residents Association. It exposed, albeit inadvertently, a far more corrosive phenomenon festering beneath the surface of urban civil life across India—a phenomenon where residential associations, many unregistered and some self-professed custodians of ‘public sentiment,’ conspire to stall governance under the veil of representation.

Read the commentary by Gajanan Khergamker: https://tinyurl.com/Colaba-Jetty-0601

The Draft is a news portal of DraftCraft International. It publishes news, reports, features, analysis and commentaries from India & Beyond Borders

31/05/2025

'Sebastiao'

Sebastiao is more than a man — he is the soul of a vanishing Goa. A feni-farmer by summer, fisherman the rest of the year, he moves with the rhythm of tides, not traffic. His three boats creak with memories as they stand next to a new age beach shack doling out trance music, he brews not just feni but legacy.

As Goa races ahead — its fields traded for resorts and folk songs drowned in EDM — Sebastiao stands still. The DraftCraft film Sebastiao captures this stillness, this quiet rebellion of tradition against the flash of modern tourism. He doesn't just make feni; he distills a way of life.

While others chase speed, Sebastiao holds on to slowness, to stories, to soil. In a land fast forgetting itself, he remains — the last sip of old Goa. Watch out for 'Sebastiao'