And despite all the heat around trade, Trump really likes Xi Jinping. Cancel that – he loves him, as he said at Davos in 2020 ...
Garm Hawa (Scorching Winds), made in 1974, is one of the greatest Hindi films on Partition and the geo-politics of India and Pakistan. It was made on a shoestring budget and the director Mysore ...
The first was Virginia Giuffre’s book Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice and the second ...
Ai Weiwei was born in Beijing in 1957 – the same year that Mao launched the so-called Anti-Rightist Campaign. 300,000 ...
Narges Mohammadi had a suspected heart attack in jail in Iran and she is in a hospital that cannot treat her condition ...
A former member of the protest band explains how she left a career in St Petersburg's police force to become a political ...
Journalists are powerful watchdogs and protecting them should be a baseline requirement for a free society. But given how woeful the state of media freedom is right now – the number of murdered ...
This piece first appeared in the Winter 2025 issue of Index on Censorship, Gen Z is revolting: Why the world’s youth will not be silenced, published on 18 December 2025. La Mutinerie sits in the heart ...
During a one-day mission to Budapest on 22 October 2025, partner organisations of the Council of Europe’s Platform for the safety of journalists met with journalists, media representatives, legal ...