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This June, the Haryana government carried out a massive anti-encroachment drive in the ecologically fragile Aravallis. But when the dust settled, a pattern emerged.

A week after The Times of India flagged the absence of pollution data during peak hours on Diwali night, the paper followed it up with a scathing editorial asking a simple and searing question: How serious is India about its air?

Amid allegations of data manipulation by Aam Aadmi Party leader Saurabh Bhardwaj, Newslaundry visited the air monitoring system in Anand Vihar to do a reality check. 

The passing of Piyush Pandey brought back memories of his most enduring contribution to Indian popular culture: the 1988 Doordarshan musical medley Mile Sur Mera Tumhara. Working as an account manager at Ogilvy Mather, Pandey had penned lines that became a rare government broadcast, a lyrical celebration of India’s diversity…

षीयूष का मतलब होता है अमृत. मगर नाम पीयूष होने का मतलब ये नहीं कि आप अमरत्व लेकर पैदा हुए हैं. ‘एड लीजेंड’ पीयूष पांडे भी चले ही गए. पीयूष ब्राम्हण थे, ब्राह्मणों को द्विज यानि दुजन्मा कहने की परम्परा है. तो वो जयपुर में पैदा भले 1955 में हुए…

I started writing this on September 1, after I devoured Arundhati Roy’s memoir. And then paused because I had to race to first write, then rewrite, an 8,000+-word profile of billionaire-podcaster-entrepreneur-investor Nikhil Kamath for Newslaundry and The News Minute. Once that was done and dusted, I mulled over whether I’d have anything different…

There is an uneasy calm in Kuradiphasa village at the foothills of the Gandhamardhan Hills. “It is the calm before the storm,” says Himanjali Das, who belongs to the indigenous Kondh tribe.

VC Sajjanar, the IPS officer who led the 2019 “Disha encounter,” is now Hyderabad’s new Police Commissioner. In this episode of Let Me Explain, Pooja Prasanna looks at what his rise says about India’s dangerous glorification of encounter killings, and how cinema, media, and public adulation have helped turn cops…

In this episode of South Central, hosts Dhanya Rajendran and Anisha Sheth are joined by journalists Shahina KK and Indulekha Aravind, and TNM’s executive editor Sudipto Mondal.