BBC World
Women who joined India's anti-Modi 'Cockroach' protests face a relentless online barrage of slut-shaming, doxxing, and threats - because apparently, disagreeing with the PM is now a gender-based sport.
The Guardian Europe
Gen Z protesters in India took on Modi and the 'godi media' with humour and viral videos, exposing the chasm between TV propaganda and ground reality - and making the establishment squirm.
The Guardian
India's Gen Z protesters, armed with memes and rage over a leaked exam, forced a minister's resignation and cracked Modi's 12-year narrative control.
The Guardian Europe
India's education minister quits after a cockroach-themed youth movement forces his hand over an exam leak scandal, proving that even the most loyal ministers can be squashed.
The Guardian Europe
Modi proposes fast-track courts for exam leak cases, but the 'cockroach' protesters aren't buying it - they still want the education minister's head on a platter.
SpaceNews
India's first private orbital rocket makes it to space on its maiden voyage, carrying cubesats and Modi-signed postcards.
The Guardian Europe
A film about police atrocities in 1990s Punjab gets banned by India's censors, who demand 127 cuts including removing the protagonist's name - proving that some stories are too true to tell.
BBC World
India's grand Ram temple in Ayodhya gets new leadership after donations allegedly go missing, because nothing says divine blessing like an embezzlement scandal.
The Guardian
India's PM collects another hastily-created, typo-ridden, possibly AI-generated award, continuing his impressive streak of being the first and only recipient of honors no one has heard of.
Grist
India is doing something unprecedented: industrializing primarily with solar energy, proving that you don't need coal to power a booming economy - just 60 million panels and some very dry salt flats.
BBC World
Delhi's 113-year-old Gymkhana Club, bastion of whisky-soaked elite negotiations, gets eviction notice from government needing 'defence infrastructure' - cue sudden nostalgia from people who never got past the waiting list.
BBC Business
Modi asks Indians to skip gold, foreign holidays, and unnecessary fuel use to save dollars, as the Iran war and oil shock squeeze the economy.
The Guardian
Modi’s BJP finally conquers West Bengal, proving that persistence (and a questionable voter roll purge) pays off.
BBC World
In West Bengal's election, politicians are waving fish to prove they're not trying to take your fish away, because apparently that's a thing we need to prove now.
BBC World
India has spent $26bn to build over 1,000km of metro lines, only to discover that most passengers apparently missed the memo about showing up.
The Good Times
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