Daily Brief: The blocking of ‘The Kashmir Walla’ underscores India’s draconian censorship of the internet, and more

The blocking of ‘The Kashmir Walla’ underscores India’s draconian censorship of the internet

The government’s powers to censor online content have been further boosted by a Karnataka High Court order and a new data protection law.

SC asks UP to show specific role of Islamic scholar arrested for alleged religious conversions

Kaleem Siddiqui, one of the prominent clerics from western Uttar Pradesh, was arrested by the state’s Anti-Terrorist Squad in September 2021.

China slashed its air pollution levels in a decade – can India replicate its model?

Both countries should not be directly compared, given their different development stages, but adopting some of China’s beneficial measures are wort...

Can’t accept that Article 370 ceased to operate after J&K Constitution was enacted in 1957, says SC

The court said this would mean that the application of the Constitution of India to Jammu and Kashmir would stand frozen as of January 26, 1957.

Should cinema stay away from religion altogether? Here’s what Devdutt Pattanaik has to say

Advice to filmmakers from the seasoned mythology expert: ‘You should invest in religion for what it is.’

What Pakistan did to convince the Indian cricket team that it was safe to tour the country in 2004

An excerpt from ‘Pitchside: My Life in Indian Cricket’, by Amrit Mathur.

‘Tired of living and angry with death’: Mir Taqi Mir’s Urdu verses from the Murty Classical Library

An excerpt from ‘Selected Ghazals and Other Poems’, by Mir Taqi Mir. Translated from the Urdu by Shamsur Rahman Faruqi.

Rush Hour podcast: Manipur Police are vertically divided, says Kiren Rijiju

A wrap of the day’s top developments.

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