Podcast: Munawar Faruqui and the State’s role in enabling the Heckler’s Veto
How free are we to criticise, to dissent? Live Law editor Manu Sebastian maps India’s free speech jurisprudence and laws restricting free speech for answers.

Why a push for cleaner air is bad news for Mumbai’s iconic pao
Hit by heatwave, Mumbai is ignoring a quick fix to cool off – keeping parks open in the afternoon
Indian-origin man linked to BJP in Australia sentenced to 40 years for raping five Korean women
The complex story of the first British Indian to win an Olympic medal
March global nonfiction: These six recently published books capture the many moods of human history
What triggered the stock market crash
Fiction: In 16th-century India, four people travel through a land teeming with possibilities
‘Wild Fictions’ by Amitav Ghosh: An eloquent testament to the life of the mind
More than 1,000 killed in two days of clashes in Syria: War monitoring group
‘You’: M Mukundan’s new novel weaves the tale of an unbidden beginning and determined departure