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livewirein has been a member of Linktree for 6 years and joined in June 2020. Resources livewirein has populated their site with include: • 5th August • Muslims On Trains • livewire.thewire.in • thewire.in • India's Long Goodbye to Darwin • Remembering Imtiaz Ahmad, Who Heralded a New Era of the Social Sciences in India • Literature's Liberating Refuge from Patriarchy • Friendships in Law School : Seeing Through My Black Shades • The Saucer Cannot Hold • No Emergency Exits from Sexism: A Flight Attendant Speaks • A Poet’s Margins • A Year Without Summer • Metamorphosis : A Poem for Umar Khalid • An Uncertain Wait, An Unrelenting Hope: 1000 Days Behind the Bars • Manik Bandyopadhyay: The Post-Tagorean Writer Who Probed Into the Architectonics of Alienation Plaguing Twentieth-Century Bengal • The Import of Foreign Higher Education in India: Committing to the Profit Motive Without Addressing Structural Needs • The King and His Kingdom • The Modesty Code: My First Encounter With ‘Sexism’ • A Century Since the Kallol Era, ‘Pataldangar Panchali’ by Manish Ghatak Still Remains an Exemplar of Understanding the ‘Self’ through the ‘Other’ • Has India Failed to Provide Safe Working Spaces for Women Athletes? • Clothes that Belonged to the Tree • What I Watch is My Personal Gospel • of love and borders • Gendered Division of Labor: My Journey with Cooking and Unpaid Household Work • In Illustrations: A Night at Urs E Khusravi • It's 1941 to 1943 or 2023… • In Delhi’s Urban Villages, Struggles Change – But Continue Nonetheless • A visit to Delhi’s villages and a lesson in ‘punishment’ without offence • Post Cards on Press Freedom • The Lost Identity • In Illustrations: May Day and Its History • Home is a Sun • Swamy and Friends: A Poem by Keki Daruwala • The Histrionics of the ‘Other Woman’ and the Changing Dynamics of the ‘Family’ • Wither Critical Historical Thought: Reflections on Changes in the Class 12th NCERT Textbook • National Curriculum Framework 2023: Whom Will This Structure of ‘Student Choice’ Benefit? • The Future of History: Holding on or Letting go the ‘Indian’ Mughal Past • To Truly Celebrate Ambedkar, Read His Work and Embrace His Ideas • Campus, Constellation, and Caste: Dalit-Bahujan Students and the Unending Battle of Belonging • The 10 Best Bollywood Films of 2022 That Entertained Us and Startled Us Too • 'Witness' Is an Anti-Caste Film That Treats its Protagonists With Dignity and Humanity • IIM Ahmedabad's Mask of Heritage Consciousness Has Slipped • Only 3 Digital Labour Platforms Give Gig Workers Local Hourly Min Wage After Costs: Report • Uzbekistan Says 18 Children Died After Taking India-Manufactured Cough Syrup • What the Casual Hate in Our Classrooms Says About New India • When Charles Sobhraj Walked Into My Office • 'People Think No Woman Could Wear a Hijab Out of Choice': Stories of Everyday Discrimination • Return to Work or Be Prepared to Lose Salaries, J&K LG Warns Protesting Kashmiri Pandits • Why Is the Upcoming SC Hearing on Forest Rights Act Crucial for 78 Lakh Adivasis? • Protests in Chhattisgarh's Narayanpur Over 'Coordinated' Anti-Christian Violence • ‘Treated Like Slaves, Abusive Practices’: Byju’s Staff Reveal Harsh Work Conditions • How Can Journalists Counter the ‘Dictators’ Handbook’? • Backstory: 4 Big Concerns Independent Media Needs to Keep Flagging Till 2024 • In Lok Sabha, FM Sitharaman Says Telangana MP Has 'Weak Hindi', Evades Question on Falling Rupee • IIT Bombay Cancels Conference on Left Movement After 'Call From Senior Official' in Edu Ministry • Kashmiris Deserve Better than 'The Kashmir Files', Their Tragedy Needs a Film-Maker Like Lapid • Scientists Should Ditch Terminology That Obscures Climate Change’s True Dangers – The Wire Science • Singer, Actor, Composer and Eccentric – the Many Lives of Kishore Kumar • Out of 68 MLAs in Himachal's New Assembly, Only One Is a Woman • Why Are Only Girls And Women Controlled Or Locked Up At Night, Asks Kerala HC • When Broadway and Cirque Du Soleil Meet the Mahabharat • Purpose Behind Charity Cannot Be Religious Conversion, Says Supreme Court • This Day 30 Years Ago, the Republic Was Besmirched • 'Qala' Has Deeply Engaging Visuals But Ultimately Ends Up Betraying Its Audience • ‘I Will Stand and Fight Again, Against What Is Wrong and for What Is Right’: Bilkis Bano • Amidst Adani's Takeover, Senior Journalist Ravish Kumar Resigns From NDTV • The Academy of Fine Arts in Kolkata Has Lost its Mystique • ‘Annihilation of Caste’ and the Struggle for Water Equality – The Wire Science • Pre-Matric Scholarship for Minority Students Will No Longer Apply for Classes I to VIII • In a Young Muslim Man's Courage, a Lesson for Us All • Shraddha Walkar and Beyond: How Media Coverage Is Shaping Perceptions • 'Will You Call Your Son by a Terrorist's Name?': College Suspends Lecturer Confronted by Student • Chennai: After Consensual Inter-Caste Marriage, PhD Scholar Arrested on Father-in-Law's Complaint • 'Indecent and Condemnable': Ramdev’s Comments on Women’s Clothing Face Criticism • Review: A Dive Into the Natural World in All Its Chaotic, Non-Binary Glory – The Wire Science • CAA-NPR-NRC: The Law Is Being Weaponised Against the Constitution • Sunlight, Smoke and Mirrors: What’s Up With Scientists Overengineering the Ram Temple? • Tamil Nadu: 10 Months On, a Dalit Woman Professor Fights for Justice in Sexual Harassment Case • Bachaikari of Bhalswa: Narratives of Waste Pickers from a Delhi Landfill • Bombay High Court Grants Bail to Anand Teltumbde in Elgar Parishad Case • Interview: How Somnath Waghmare Draws Parallels Between Documentaries and Politics • Indiscriminate Extension of Reservations Is a Lazy Form of Politics. What We Need Is Redistribution • The Uses (and Abuses) of Investigative Agencies • Children's Day Special: There Is a Lot Left to Be Done to Protect ChildrenChildren’s Day Special: There Is a Lot Left to Be Done to Protect Children • Polarisation Is Bad for India and the US. But Its Effect in India Will Be Catastrophic • Backstory: Only Good Journalism Will Steer ‘The Wire’ Out of the Meta Thicket • Karnataka: Pregnant Woman Dies After Being Turned Away From Hospital For Not Having Aadhaar Card • A Year Since Breach of Annamayya Dam, Flood Victims Still Await the Homes They Were Promised • Why is the Anniversary of the 1984 Massacre of Sikhs Not a Time of Remembrance For Us All? • UP: Hindu Woman Dies by Suicide Hours After Muslim Boyfriend 'Beaten to Death' by Family • ‘Tár’ Is Stuck in the Muck of Its Own Highbrow Artiness • The Bones of an Empire: Meditations from Hampi • ‘Woman’s Testimony Doesn’t Depend on Her Sexual History’: SC Decries ‘Two-Finger’ Test • Order and Disorder • Arunachal’s Exclusionist Policy Towards Chakmas Has Led to Rampant Trafficking of Their Children • Book Review: An Invitation to Strengthen the Debate on Middle Class Working Women • ‘Vernacular English’ Is a Deep Dive into India’s Language of Paradox • How Karnataka’s ‘Preventive Protocol’ Could Help in Retaining All Children in School • How Bob Dylan Used the Ancient Practice of ‘Imitatio’ to Craft Some of the Most Original Songs of His Time • Noida: Politician Shrikant Tyagi, Arrested for Assaulting Woman, Gets Grand Welcome on Release • Is the Lure of Higher Posts Turning Young BJP Leaders Radical? • Hyderabad: Child Raped in School by Principal’s Driver; Accused Arrested • Cruise Ship Drug Case: NCB Inquiry Finds Shortcomings in Investigation • Bilkis Bano Case Convict Was Booked for 'Outraging Modesty of Woman' While on Out on Parole • 'Great Resignation', 'Quiet Quitting': America’s Anti-Work Movement Is Not New, Its Cinema Shows • The Higg Index, the Latest Sustainability Farce in Fashion • Book Review: Zarifa Ghafari's Memoir Is a Story of Resistance Against All Odds • Hijab Ban to Continue in Karnataka Schools, Colleges Till SC Verdict: Education Minister • Book Review: How Colonial Racism Built and Maintains Unjust Global Order • The Contradictions of the ‘Urban’ in India • Amitabh Bachchan, the Familiar Presence in Our Lives For Almost Six Decades • Kerala: Two Missing Women Killed in ‘Human Sacrifice’; Three Suspects Held • Five Transgender Persons Attacked in Agartala; Victims Allege Police Apathy • The Curious Case of Alice in Wonderland Syndrome • World Mental Health Day: Time to Prioritise Perinatal Mental Health • UP: 13-Year-Old Dies by Suicide After Gang-Rape; Family Alleges Police Inaction, Coercion • ‘Blonde’: Hollywood Exploited Marilyn Monroe, This Film Does the Same • In Kolkata’s Red-Light Area, Women Talk About Abuse Versus Agency, Sex Work as a Choice • Bestiality: The Many Forms of Animal Cruelty • ‘Modi Govt Didn’t Even Say Thanks,’ Says Historian Behind UNESCO Tag for Kolkata’s Durga Puja • Where Do Koels Lay Their Eggs? • Unwombing the Mind: A Review of Kala Ramesh’s ‘the forest i know’ • Six Themes That Supreme Court Touched Upon in Verdict on Right to Legal Abortion • Harassment in College Campuses: Where Are the Safe Spaces? • Glaring Mistakes in PG English CUET Answer Keys; Students Forced to Pay to Point Out 'Errors' • What Indian Women Need to Deal With the Gendered Threat of Air Pollution • ‘A Night of Knowing Nothing’: A Dreamy, Sometimes Preachy Meditation About Souring Relationships • Whither, in the Name of Religion, Goes the Voice of Reason? • UP: Minor Who Was Allegedly Gang-Raped Seen Walking Naked on Street in Viral Video • Karnataka: Dalit Family Fined Rs 60,000 After a Teen ‘Touches’ Hindu Deity Idol • Feminist Science Is Not an Oxymoron • The New Tom Hanks ‘Pinocchio’ Is a Clumsy, Awkward, CGI Mess • All That Is Wrong With the Allahabad High Court Order on Police Brutality in AMU • Uttering the Uterus: Mapping Myths and Menstrual Health in India • Punjab: Student’s Death by Suicide at Private Uni Triggers Protests, ‘2nd Such Death in 10 Days’ • Agyeya, the Writer and Lover Who Led an Inner Life • 20 Years Later, Hayao Miyazaki’s ‘Spirited Away’ Continues to Delight Fans and Inspire Animators • Research Finds Stark Discrimination Between Hindu and Muslim Women While Job Hunting • Roger Federer – The God Among Men Who Humanised Greatness • Punjab Police Arrest Two Accused in Chandigarh University Video Leak Case • How Caste and Class Divisions Caused Bengaluru's Flooding • How Nalanda University Became a Victim of Modi Govt’s Saffronisation Project • A Visit to Manalmagudi’s Ritual Theatre, Where ‘Land’ Becomes One With the Body, Democratically • Hillary Clinton’s TV Show ‘Gutsy’ Is Infantilising and Cutesy • Women's Qualifications Have No Bearing on Their Employment, Earnings: Oxfam Report • Uttar Pradesh: Minor Dalit Sisters Found Hanging; Six Arrested • JNU Must Withdraw from CUET, Says Teachers’ Body • Ao Women: Guardians of an Unbroken Tradition • Visiting Umar Khalid: A Manual for the Undertaking of Visits to Political Prisoners by Those Still Free • How Vedanta Hopped, Skipped and Jumped Over Pollution Laws in Goa • ‘Very Frightening’ to Enter Campus Alone: Muslim Students Recount Hijab Ban’s Impact • Umar Khalid on His Two Years in Jail: ‘I Feel Pessimistic at Times. And Also Lonely’ • Battleground Body: Sexism and the Right to Safe Abortions in India • Plagiarism: AI Is Making It Easier Than Ever for Students to Cheat • The Price of Opposition's Silence on Matters Affecting Minorities • What Does International Law Say About Remission Granted to Bilkis Bano’s Rapists? • 'Brahmastra' Is Little More Than a Dishonest Film Sculpted Out of Box Office Desperation • Divorce Rates Are Increasing: Here’s Why That’s a Good Thing • 'Harassment': Students Accuse JNU of Imposing Fines of up to Rs 15,000 Over Protests • 'Over 300 Attacks Against Christians Till July 2022': NGO Data Based on Distress Calls • Foeticide: More ‘Missing’ Girls Among Hindus Than Muslims in Last Two Decades, Official Data Shows • CUET’s Implementation Has Undoubtedly Been Botched – But Most Have Ignored the Issue • Nayyara Noor, as I Knew Her • Uprooted by the Partition: Witnessing the Chaos Before and After • Kerala: Opinions Divided on Annulment of Dalit Woman's Appointment as Assistant Prof • What’s Going On With the Greenland Ice Sheet? • Mary Roy, Untiring Educationist, Was Unafraid of Taking on the Powers That Be • What Defines Creative Writing? Worldview and Craft, Not Gender • Jharkhand Teacher Beaten Up by Students Had Hurled Casteist Slurs, Faced Demotion: Official • 'Use and Throw' Culture Influencing Marriages – Evident from Live-In Relations, Divorce : Kerala HC • Karnataka: Dalit Outfits Protest, Demand Arrest of Seer Booked in Sexual Abuse Case • Nearly 20% Increase in Rapes Across India in 2021, Rajasthan Had Highest Cases: NCRB • Inside the Four Walls of Intimate Partner Violence in India • The Sound of Silence: The Legacy of Chief Justice N.V. Ramana • In Paris, Walking Tours Return Women to the Heart of the Story • India Forced Twitter To Hire a ‘Govt Agent’, Claims Former Security Chief in Whistleblower Complaint • Even After a Century, Water Is Still the Marker of India's Caste Society • In Photos: Eight Months After They Went Back Home, Farmers Protest in Delhi Again • ‘24 Hours, No FIR, No Raid’: How a Ugandan Woman Fought Her Way Out of a Delhi Sex Racket • ‘Garm Hawa’ Showed the Dilemmas and Choices of Muslims in 1947 and Remains Relevant Even Today • Book Review: ‘Black Magic Women’ Delves into Little-Known Diverse Realities of Assam • No Country for My Nationalism • Memories, Pain, Remorse: A Partition Portrait Gallery • The Pain of Partition, as Seen in the Literature of Many Languages • Independent India in 75 Years Has Not Fulfilled All Expectations of the Dalitbahujan • India Has Come A Long Way Since 1947, But Much Still Needs To Be Done • Hindu Men Have Highest Number of Multiple Sexual Partners, Sikhs Second: NFHS-5 Data • The Importance of Anand Teltumbde's Thoughts in a Republic of Caste • A Street Library, or a Silent Movement? • The Stories We Never Hear: A Spate of Hate Crimes Against Queer Indians • Is It Cheating if It’s With a Chatbot? How AI Nearly Wrecked My Marriage • When 'Bandi' Is Both a Game and Life: The Children of India's Women Prisoners • Indian Politics Has a Clear Gender Imbalance. That's Why We Need the Women's Reservation Bill. • How ‘Counter-Strike’ Helped Shape the Future of Digital Capitalism • Book Excerpt: What Nehru’s Stance on Muslims Returning from Pakistan Tells Us • Book Review: Women Trying to Make Their Own Histories in the Face of State Power • In Exile From the Times: Keki Daruwalla’s ‘Going’ • From Juju to Afrobeats: Charting the Last 100 Years of Nigerian Pop Music • Karnataka: How Two Friends Became the Target of Hindutva Polarisation on Eid • How Children With Special Needs Are Being Left Out of Mainstream Education in India • Decolonisation or Brahminisation: What’s the Thrust Behind Karnataka’s NEP Position Papers? • Book Review: Through 50 Names, Rasheed Kidwai Reminds Us of India’s Pre-2014 Political History • The Saviour • Should Faith Be Certified by an Official Bureau, or Be a Felt Experience? • When Kaali Descends: A Poster, a Cigarette, a Film • Battle Over Textbook Revision in Karnataka Has Helped Expose the Ideology of Brahminical-Hindutva • Invocation • Doubt the Truth: Pitfalls of Treating Human Attention as a Commodity • In What Discourse Can We Converse With the Heartless: An Open Letter to the CJI • Kissi Se Na Kehna! Mohammed Zubair Arrested for Tweeting Photo from 1983 Hindi Film • The Sordid State of Menstrual and Postpartum Health of Kashmiri Tribal Women • ‘The Broken News’ Is a Middling Account of TV Journalism With Some Subtle Touches • Review: In ‘Avalon’, Nell Zink’s Characters – and Her Readers – Have Nowhere to Hide • Bound to No Rules, Modi's Yoga Day Maintains Its Lawless Asana • Suddenly Many New Fictional Detectives Are Sniffing for Clues on the Streets of Bombay • 20 Years Later, ‘The Wire’ Is Still a Cutting Critique of American Capitalism • This Is Life • Reclaiming Agency in Late Life: Elder Abuse and the Potential of Law • Pure or Profane? Roddur Roy’s Arrest Can Be a Defining Moment for Bengal’s Social Grammar • Homing as a Single Displaced Woman • The Dreams of an Underclass Which Remains Invisible Form the Nucleus of ‘Ghode Ko Jalebi’ • ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Is Another Military Recruitment Video Disguised as a Movie • Post-Pandemic Schooling Has Revived a Terrible Idea: Rushed Classrooms • David Bowie: 50 Years On, a Look at ‘Ziggy Stardust’ and the First UN Climate Summit • The ‘Firestarter’ Remake Fails to Ignite • Review: ‘Anek’ Is Missing the Micro Moments That Make a Convincing Movie • What Is This ‘New India’ That BJP Speaks of? • J&K: 20-Year-Old's Death Not 'Chance Encounter' But 'Civilian Killing,' Say Family, Witnesses • ‘The Staircase’ Is the Natural Next Step in Our True-Crime Watching Spree • Why My Twitter Account Getting Hacked Wasn’t All That Bad • What Being a Metaverse Bouncer Taught Me About the Potential Future of Content Moderation • In ‘Modern Love: Mumbai’, it Is the Simple Emotions That Score • Book Review: Gloves and Gumboots Don’t Help, Manual Scavenging Has to Go • For Recognising the Signs of Fascism, a Teacher Must Be Suspended • In a Korean Rapper’s Brush With Online Hatred, a Lesson For India • Book Review: In These Telugu Stories, a View From Below the Line of Privilege • Is it Possible to Make India Poverty-Free by 2047? • Book Review: Narrating Kashmir’s Social Truths Through Stories • What the Creator of ‘Parks and Recreation’ and ‘The Good Place’ Gets Wrong About Ethics • Finding Balance – Making the Indian Higher Judiciary More Representative • We Want Longer Weekends — but Not Longer Workdays • What Happens to the Right to Education, Online? • Consuming ‘Ing-leash’ Medium • How the Internet Became Straight • How Should Dostoevsky and Tolstoy Be Read During Russia’s War Against Ukraine? • Coachella Is a Carnival for Capital • Finding Ambedkar: Crises in ‘Ambedkarism’ That Merit Deeper Reflection • ‘Bridgerton’ Brings the Regency Novel Back Into Fashion – But Did It Ever Go Away? • Interview: The Making of ‘Shakti’, Aditi Ramesh’s First Music Video • LSD Capitalism Promises a Bad Trip for Us All • Our World, Their World: An Account of an Indian Student at a US University • W.H. Auden’s Radical Humanism Was Unwavering • ‘Jalsa’ – Solid and Motivated Throughout – Defies Expectations and Is a Must Watch • The Dangers of Romanticising Mental Illnesses • Bhagavad Gita in Schools: Rote Learning of Illiberal Theological Text Will Trump Rational Inquiry • As a Film, ‘The Kashmir Files’ Is Both Laughable and Frightening in Its Relentless Communalism • Simple and Committed, ‘Jhund’ Dismantles Hierarchy Through Plot and Execution • Godhra, Where the Fall of India's Democracy Began • We, as Indians, Must Not Shy Away From 'Nationalism' • ‘Severance’ Is the Perfect Thriller for the Great Resignation of Our Era • Alia Bhatt Soars in and as ‘Gangubai’, Confirms Place as Best Actor in Commercial Hindi Cinema • Who Deserves Wealth? Moral Ambiguity and the Anna Delvey Story • How Sylvia Plath’s Secret Miscarriage Transforms Our Understanding of Her Poetry • 'Rocket Boys' Begins Well, Then Turns Into Hagiography With A Blatantly Communal Touch • A Haunting in the Homeland • Why Is the Delhi Govt Not Paying its Teaching and Non-Teaching Staff in DU? • On Twitter, New JNU VC Has Supported Genocide Calls, Attacked Students, Farmers • Dispatch From Kashmir: A Letter to My Newborn Daughter • Clubhouse and the Fantasy of Sexual Violence Against Muslim Women • Virat Kohli, the Mythical King, has Embraced His Fate Against a Hostile BCCI • Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Nightmare Alley’ Paints an Old Noir with Lurid, Fantastical Color • Screens, Mists and Smoke: Translucence’s Ambiguous Dynamics • The Burden of Cooking • A Symbol of Love: Romance, Secularism and Shah Rukh Khan • Don’t Give in to the Culture Industry’s Appeals to Nostalgia • Preference for English, Upper Caste Candidates: How UPSC ‘Biases’ Impact Civil Services Exam • Please Study Political Science – But Not Just to Sit for UPSC Exams • Here, Virgins Give Birth • Linguistic Identities: Breaking Down the ‘Sexy’ Accent Challenge on Instagram • Facebook Harms Its Users Because That’s Where Its Profits Are • Excerpt: A Satirical Take on Jean Paul Sartre’s ‘Being And Nothingness’ • A Sister Seeks Justice For Her Brother’s Killing During the 2010 Kashmir Unrest • From Across the Thar: The Princess Padmini Amarkot Story • The Curious Case of Common Sense • Comic Strips | Coffee With ‘Corona’ • Once Upon a Recent Time: A Tale About the Collapse of Vultures in India • Wandering in Wonderland: Happy Alice Day • Haroun • The Tale of the Two Sardarni Raj Kaurs • The Love Song of N. Tanashah Godi • Ambivert’s Anxiety • ‘Reparenting’: How I Am Learning to Heal My Childhood Wounds • Moxie Review: Amy Poehler’s Feminist Anthem Is Only Half Baked at Best • Taking Back Control, One Hair Colour at a Time • Mahatma Jyotibha Phule: A Birth That Continues to Bring This Society to Life • Colours and Conditioning: How I Was Taught to Hate Pink • The Ghazal Resurrector? Ali Sethi and His Music in Millenial Imagination • Putting My Phone on Silent • Internet, Torture Videos And Mockery: The Sad Trend of Our Apathy • Relative Balance • Sikhs, Pagdis and My Father: A Story of Love, Respect and Dignity • UGC's New Draft History Syllabus Plays Up Mythology, Faces Allegations of Saffronisation • Reader Favourites in 2020: 15 of the Stories You Loved Most • BOONDH: In a Pandemic Year, How Menstrual Health in India Was Forced to Take a Back Seat • BOONDH: Coping With Pandemic Stress, Mental Health and Menstrual Disorders in 2020 • We Need To Stop Pointing Fingers at Protesting Farmers • Bicycles and Dreams • Cybersex: A Simulation of Our Sexuality • The Never-Ending Scourge of Bullying at Indian Institutions • Incels and the Need for a Feminist Internet • The Three Times I Fell in Love With SPB • Am I Losing the Real Me? • How They See Us | Avani Batra • Lost in Translation • #MeToo Case in Goa: The Woke Have Exposed How Asleep They Really Are • A Date in Khan Market • LiveWire Homepage • Personal Stories • Campus • Gender & Sexuality • Politics • Out & About • Fiction & Verse • Submission Guidelines