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"Completely Illegal": Anand Patwardhan on Documentary Screening Being Stopped Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

“Article 370 is a strange thing. In some senses it governs the special relationship between Kashmir and India. Most of those special provisions have been hollowed out. Is abrogation going to mean that people are now going to settle down into some kind of comfortable and defeated relationship with India, I doubt it?” Sanjay Kak, filmmaker, does not mince any words while talking about the latest dev...

"The Kashmiris have not let down India, India has let down Kashmir. And this is the result of virtually stripping away at the autonomy, which has been constitutionally guaranteed to the Kashmiris under the grand principle of India's federalism." That's what former Air Vice-Marshal Kapil Kak had to say about the Modi government abrogating Article 370 of the Constitution. Air Vice Marshal (Retd) Kak...

Netflix’s first Indian Original series, the first season of Sacred Games became a humongous success and this generally puts an unhealthy amount of pressure on the successor that has to match not just the weight of expectations but deliver a dynamic fresh new punch. Putting all doubts to rest it must be made clear that Sacred Games 2 is totally worth the hype. Helmed by Anurag Kashyap and Neeraj Gh...

Pehlu Khan was lynched by a mob on 1 April 2017. Two years later the trial court acquitted all 6 accused giving his family a rude shock. Here, a day after the verdict, they give us a glimpse into who Pehlu was before being just another lynch mob victim. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Regardless of your idea of freedom, there is no denying that thousands of people have given up their lives fighting for it. Listen, to the stories of five freedom fighters from the South - heroes in their own right - who fought and died for India. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Not sure how to respond to the deluge of fake news about Article 370 and the Kashmir crisis? Listen in for how the propaganda about Article 370 being temporary was busted all the way back in 1968, by the Supreme Court no less. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik should not be expecting the BJP to go easy on him, going forward. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

WhatsApp messages and friendly forwards from non-Kashmiris congratulating Huma* over the scrapping of Article 370 is the least of her worries.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

“The last thing my mother told me was to stay safe and not worry about them. But how can I not worry when I  don’t know how they are, in what state?” shares Kashmiri Muslim woman from Delhi. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

टैंजीयर्स को अपना नाम टैंजरीन यानि संतरे से मिला. रोमन मिथकों में उनके देवता हरक्यूलिस ने संतरे की चोरी कर यहां छुपने की जगह ढूंढी थी. हरक्यूलिस की 4500 साल पुरानी गुफा, मिथक से इतर भी रोमन साम्राज्य की निशानियां समेटे, अपना आकर्षण अब तक सहेजे हुए है. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This is the first time that Amarnath Yatra has been stopped in the past 23 years. The Yatra was banned between 1991-1995 during the peak of militancy and it was resumed in 1996. Since then, the Yatra has not been banned despite attacks and tragedies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The most striking thing about Khandaani Shafakhana is how good Sonakshi Sinha is. A fine testimony to her skills, Sonakshi as Baby Bedi seamlessly stitches together the actor-character divide and melts into her role. Baby Bedi is instantly likable. She has dreams but with a firm hold on reality . While trying to hustle up a living, working for a pharmaceutical company and keeping her greedy chacha...

The Quint travelled to Unnao, to the village where the Unnao rape survivor lives. What we found is a village that ostracised the survivor and her entire family, out of fear. The tension that gripped them at the mention of BJP MLA Kuldeep Sengar's name was palpable. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

19 July 2019 saw the launch of ‘Super Century – What India Must Do To Rise by 2050’ – the latest book of The Quint's Editor-in-Chief Raghav Bahl. In the presence of distinguished guests including author Gurcharan Das, former RBI governor and MP Dr Bimal Jalan, MP and former IIM-Bangalore professor Rajeev Gowda, and journalist and national security expert Praveen Swami journalist, Bahl shared the s...

The makers of "Arjun Patiala" have obviously thrown caution to the wind and indulged in a care-a-damn attitude. They have given absolute hoots to the critics -- a fact that is blatantly spelt out by the end of the film. This screwball comedy, designed as a buddy-cop film, is a huge letdown. You would enjoy the humour if it was intelligently mounted. Unfortunately with a perfunctorily-designed plot...

Would you choose paying a fine worth Rs 20,000 or spending one month in a mental asylum? Bobby (Kangana Ranaut) our deliriously eccentric lead of Judgementall Hai Kya doesn’t even bat an eyelid before choosing the latter. “Main comfortable hoon,” she says as she goes grocery shopping with her boyfriend Varun (Hussain Dalal), who ruing the lack of physical intimacy between the two asks “kahin hum b...

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One of India’s premier business schools, Institute of Rural Management, Anand (IRMA), in Gujarat, is currently embroiled in a controversy over its director’s appointment. The B-school’s 64-year-old director, Professor Hitesh Bhatt, allegedly doesn’t meet the qualification criteria set by the institute. Listen to the podcast for the full story Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/ad...

Can China ever truly be trusted? As the world’s largest trading partner, it may be a key pillar of the global economy, but it is also inscrutable and aggressive in its quest for hegemony, playing by its own set of rules in everything from trade practices to territorial disputes. But I argue that we should treat China like the 'frenemy' it is: embrace when possible, ignore when prudent and fight ba...

A triumph of the human spirit, the vociferous fight of an underdog – these are the noble themes that Vikas Bahl’s Super 30 deals with. Somehow, Hrithik seems alien in the very surroundings he should ideally look an indispensable part of. Sadly, this proves to be the Super 30’s biggest weakness. His on-screen brother is the popular television actor Nimish Sandhu, who is fairly good even though he l...

Ahead of the launch of her anti-cyber bullying campaign ‘So Positive’, Ananya Panday spoke to The Quint about trying to be real on social media, dealing with trolls and taking acting classes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Perhaps for the first time since the 2008 nuclear deal, India seems a bit insecure about where it stands with its long-time friend and strategic partner, the United States of America. The reason: The rather mercurial President Trump and his belligerent trade wars. But I argue that we should treat any friction in the India-US relationship as temporary and stay focused on the long-term prize: An une...

The standing Central government directive to hospitals states that “continuous active duty for resident doctors will not normally exceed 12 hours per day." But one shift regularly goes on for up to three times the prescribed limit of 12 hours, which is 36 hours. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices