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Authorities also verbally assured protesters that demands for proper course enrolment, adequate facilities and pending scholarships would be addressed.

“With Rajinikanth, minimal is maximum,” says Jailer 2 action director Chethan Ramshi D’Souza, as he talks about choreographing action for the superstar.

From the fee-hike agitation at Jawaharlal Nehru University to protests over electoral rolls in 2026, the SFI leader’s journey reflects the enduring role of Left student organisations in sustaining political resistance beyond individual moments of outrage.

“I don't have the privilege of choosing films based on characters,” says Hakkim Shajahan, as he opens up about his journey in cinema.

John’s film is about a trauma that continues to this day. It reverberates with the resistance of the oppressed and rings with their chants of Inquilab Zindabad!

A car that launches into the air and flips mid-flight sounds like a James Bond fantasy. Tesla says its new Roadster can do just that, but will this flying car ever make it onto public roads?

Behind the backpacker cafes and party scenes along the ‘Hummus Trail’, Shrishti Khanna alleges some establishments exclude Indians and those who disagree with their political views.

As CJP builds an independent youth-led protest movement, the Congress faces a political dilemma: how to support its demands without appearing to appropriate a mobilisation outside its control.

Jailer 2 packs in Rajinikanth’s mass moments, family emotions and star power, but falls short of a consistently engaging entertainer.

From what India’s Constitution and the Supreme Court say about the right to protest and where it can be exercised, to how constitutions and courts in the US, Canada, the UK, Europe, Russia and China treat dissent.

Telangana police detained ministers, Kerala passed a rare resolution, and Chennai held youth protesters. How states policed the CEC agitation.

Delhi Police has replaced Jantar Mantar with three alternative protest venues. How do Ramlila Ground, Burari Ground and CBD Ground compare in accessibility, visibility and proximity to the political centre?

Delhi sealed a protest site, detained thousands and then de-notified Jantar Mantar. What the State learned from 2011 and July, and what the street lost.