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The MFI calls it financial inclusion. The RBI calls it a vicious cycle of over-indebtedness.

Middlemen are formally banned in Indian defence deals. They have never stopped operating.

The city wants the cuisine. It does not want the cook to occupy the city.

Dharavi residents who can't prove pre-2000 residence will be relocated to a landfill.

India built an NRC to find illegal immigrants. It found 19 lakh people without paperwork.

In 2024-25, India released 250 bonded labourers. The brick kiln contractor released none.

The municipal corporation failed to pipe the water. It awarded the Water ATM contract.

The Motor Vehicles Act raised penalties in 2019. Road deaths increased between 2019 and 2024.

Asaram. Nithyananda. Ram Rahim. Bikram. The pattern is not random. It is structural.

India's IT success story has a sub-basement. It just received a DOL subpoena.

From constitutional amendments to unregulated care homes, BerryBeat's reporting keeps finding the same gap: the people meant to check power rarely do.

India amended its Constitution 106 times. The 67th amendment passed in a single day.

India's pharma gift culture is worth thousands of crores. The regulator produced one reprimand.

Press capture is more dangerous than censorship. The captured paper looks like a newspaper.

Child trafficking for domestic work rose 68% after COVID. The placement agencies still operate.

India's Rs 2 lakh crore beauty industry is substantially built on selling self-hatred.

India has 696 supported old age homes for 104 million elderly people. Do the math.

One hand stole the textbook paper. The other stole the history inside it.

Adivasis are 8% of India's population. They are 40-50% of those displaced by development.

India's abortion law reaches urban women. Rural, poor, and Adivasi women reach something else.