How Religious Discrimination Led to the Influx Into Mumbra https://thewire.in/communalism/how-religious-discrimination-led-to-the-influx-into-mumbra Sidharth Bhatia

It was only after the 1992-93 riots in Mumbai, which went on for two months with a break in between, that large numbers of migrants chose to move to Mumbra.   “People came in the thousands. Temporary camps were set up and soon, well-meaning philanthropists built one-room tenements that they sold for a mere Rs 10,000; even this amount most refugees could not manage. 

Jokesters lead the fight for free expression in India Economist Nov 15th 2025 Jokesters lead the fight for free expression in India

Indeed some Indian comedians feel they have an obligation to stand
up and be heard. “Censorship has captured most of the arts,”
explains Vinay Shukla, a documentary film-maker. “Over the last ten
years, comics have taken on the establishment much more directly
than other art forms.” Films, television shows and plays require
funding and a crew—and often need an official censor’s approval.
Books need publishers. Comedy, by contrast, is decentralised:
comedians speak for themselves and need only a microphone. Their
mode is cheap, portable and, in the age of social media, easily
disseminated: comics can speak to the nation from a single stage or
desk. “Kunal Kamra would be recognised at any airport,” says Mr
Shukla.

How Italy’s mafia uses social media to recruit new blood Economist  Nov 15th 2025 

Mobsters are exploiting the social-media app to normalise their
image, mythologise their culture and even to launder money, 
TikTok’s algorithm, based on user interaction, soon subjects casual
users to a perpetual torrent of violence, loyalty and ostentation,
“including wives of prisoners offering advice, photos of victims of
clan wars, young heirs flaunting luxury brands, repentant mafiosi
offering commentary…and parades of scooters designed to
intimidate”, the report said. This continual exposure to “grief,
violence, luxury and prison…has trained audiences to consume
criminal imagery as entertainment.”