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The massive public protests that have raged across Iran since 22-year-old Mahsa Amini died in the custody of the morality police in September arrived at the World Cup. Ahead of its 6-2 loss to England last month, the Iranian team refused to sing the Islamic...

A seemingly off the cuff remark by Iran’s Attorney General Mohammad Jafar Montazeri that the Iranian morality police was being “disbanded” is now being interpreted not as a sign of the regime succumbing to pressure exerted by protesters, but as kite flying. Protesters and international...

What was feared, when Elon Musk clinched his deal with Twitter and became its owner, is now getting confirmed. Statistics reveal some frightening truths. Before Musk’s takeover, hatred spewed against Black Americans on Twitter was, on an average, 1,282 times a day. After he became...

Strange things are happening in President Xi Jinping’s China. What is even more startling is the fact that the new developments are taking place only over a month after he was hailed and installed as the country’s head for a record third term, a distinction...

We are in the middle of yet another election cycle (do these things never end?) and the matter of Nehru versus Patel has returned. A few weeks ago, a speech by the Home Minister was published with the headline: ‘Had Sardar Patel been India’s 1st...

Since the start of his tenure as the Union Home Minister in 2019, Amit Shah has constantly sought to burnish his ‘tough guy’ image. He’s taken the Modi sarkar’s crackdown on wayward babus to a whole new level. Sources have informed DKB that 2021 was...

Why did Elon Musk purchase Twitter? His official answer – to defend free speech and democracy – is so unconvincing that the question won’t go away. Musk’s repeated appeals to these ideals to justify important decisions he has made since taking over are so confounding...

The 53rd International Film Festival of India or IFFI Jury head’s remarks in Goa at its concluding session on the highly controversial film - The Kashmir Files - have triggered yet another storm. The question that is subsequently thrown up is whether there is ample...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s name figures in a list that includes former heads of states in Africa allegedly persecuting their political opponents. The report has been released by the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF). It is an independent, bipartisan American government agency...

The abuse of the laws to silence the voice of freedom and free thinking has become rampant across the globe, including India, in recent times. But, the way this is being done in Italy under the Far-Right Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, who has just assumed...