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Parliament says no one died of manual scavenging. The same ministry says 498 sanitation workers died in sewers since 2019. The difference is a definition.

A kiss gets trimmed in minutes, but films on caste or police brutality wait years. The censor board's own rulebook says violence must not be glorified. So what is it really guarding?

India now has a deepfake rulebook. But it covers audio and video only, so the fake that travels as a WhatsApp forward may slip straight through.

India's nuclear programme rests on uranium from Jharkhand, where villagers and officials disagree on what the mines have done to health. No independent study has settled it.

Dalit women's rape cases are convicted at roughly the national rate. The real gap is earlier: the FIR that is never filed.

India's cities run short of water, and private tankers fill the gap. The record shows a market where those who control supply profit when supply fails.

India says it answers to no bloc. The numbers on oil, arms, China and remittances show autonomy is real, but it always comes with a price.

India's law bans the kidney trade, yet rackets keep surfacing. The brokers get arrested, and the system that approved the forged paperwork rarely changes.

India legally protects about 3,700 monuments. The havelis, step wells and colonial buildings outside that list are being cleared for car parks and towers.

India's domestic violence law defines the victim as a woman. For men who are abused at home, the law has no category and often no listener.

India banned vapes in 2019 but kept bidis, cigarettes and gutka legal. The strongest evidence says that logic may be backwards.

Four weeks, a certificate, and you are a yoga teacher. The credential is a voluntary registry, and the guru's years of watching are not on the syllabus.

The village council that bans, boycotts and punishes often has no legal power at all. The elected one has the law, and sometimes cannot give a Dalit president a chair.

The Election Commission has recorded hundreds of paid news cases. The law still treats it as an accounting problem, not an electoral offence.

Two countries, two curated versions of 1947. The people who lived it are in their late eighties, and the fullest record of them was built by volunteers.

The doctor who recommends waiting is a department's revenue problem. Over-treatment in India is not corruption. It is architecture.

Cloth got cheaper, and the civilisation that wove it was handed the bill. India kept the skill and lost the livelihood.

The oppressed do not automatically become non-oppressors. Inside India's Scheduled Caste list sits a second ladder, and the people at its bottom are dying in sewers.