Maktoob

05/30/2025

Patriarchal norms prioritising male authority in family and public life continue to shape Indian society and find a powerful echo in the country’s digital manosphere. Online spaces amplify grievances against women’s increasing autonomy, especially around issues such as marriage and legal protections.

Alayka Aftab writes

05/30/2025

“Gaza is the hungriest place on Earth,” OCHA spokesperson Jens Laerke told reporters in Geneva on Friday, stressing that it is the only defined territory in the world where the entire population is at risk of famine.

05/30/2025

“It took us years of hard work to build this home, one we’re still repaying through mounting interest. To watch it burn and not be able to do anything, is a horrific fate.”

Aswathy Sreedhar reports:

05/30/2025

A United States federal appeals court ruled on Thursday that President Donald Trump can, for now, maintain his tariff by invoking emergency powers, just a day after a lower court struck it down, calling it “illegal” and stating that he had overstepped his authority.

05/30/2025

The Delhi High Court has directed the Union government and the Delhi Lieutenant Governor (LG) to file their responses within six weeks to a petition challenging the December 2024 notification that appointed the Delhi Police as the nodal agency for blocking online content under the Information Technology (IT) Act, 2000.

05/30/2025

“It took us years of hard work to build this home, one we’re still repaying through mounting interest. To watch it burn and not be able to do anything, is a horrific fate.”

Aswathy Sreedhar reports:

While still reviving from the financial impact of the October 2024 floods, the slums of Udaya Sooriyan Nagar in Vyasarpadi faced another blow earlier this week. On the evening of 25 May, 2025 around 24 makeshift houses here were damaged in a fire accident of unknown origin. Chennai, Fire incident, s...

05/30/2025

“Right now, while we prepare to graduate and move forward with our lives, there are no universities left in Gaza. We are watching Israel try to wipe Palestine off the face of the earth, and it is a shame that MIT is a part of it.”

05/30/2025

Rupak Kumar’s inclusion of unconventional oppositional forms, NGOs, media and constitutional protests is not only inclusive but epistemologically radical. It challenges our understanding of where democracy lives. What is particularly powerful is Kumar’s framing of opposition as both a democratic necessity and a governance imperative.

Azher Ahmad Dar & Maleeha write

05/30/2025

More than 180 families in Bahraich, Uttar Pradesh, along with a centuries old mosque (Noori Masjid), have received eviction notices from the Forest Department, despite community members claiming their roots in the area date back several generations, to the time when British authorities laid nearby railway lines.

05/30/2025

A portrait of Hindutva leader Vinayak Damodar Savarkar was installed in the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students’ Union office by the union joint secretary Vaibhav Meena of ABVP on May 28th, on the occasion of the RSS ideologue’s birth anniversary, without following due procedure.

05/30/2025

Although Arfat is now reunited with his wife and young children—a comfort after nearly five years—he struggles to rebuild his life. Genocide in Myanmar, persecution in India, and death threats in Bangladesh have left him “mentally and physically exhausted”.

Shaheen Abdulla reports

05/30/2025

Israel on Thursday ordered the shutdown of Al-Awda Hospital in Tal al-Zaatar, northern Gaza-the last functioning hospital in the area, forcing health officials to urgently relocate dozens of patients and staff, as the region endures relentless bombardment and severe starvation.