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.

A new book brings a Rampur family’s culinary history and cherished recipes created by the matriarch
For Jane Austen and her heroines, walking was more than a pastime – it was a form of resistance
Mount Everest: A new route avoids treacherous Khumbu Icefall in safer path to summit
A beginner’s guide to weight-lifting in the gym
This book is an alternative account of literary beginnings in modern India through women’s writings
For young readers: Poems about the various small, astonishing creatures we share the planet with
Bihar voter roll revision: Why having to prove you are an Indian citizen is a nightmare
Tech jobs aplenty in Dubai’s AI boom – depending on your passport
What India can learn from China: Dictatorship, democracy and the road not taken
‘What we saw...we captured in the camera’: Rural Rajasthan, through the eyes of its own residents