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Hair-Rising in Tehran

Deepika Saraswat

Iranians are striving for an ‘ordinary life’, not a ‘heaven’ that is forced from within or without

The Generation Slap

Madhavankutty Pillai

What makes an orthodoxy like Iran disband the morality police

We the People

Makarand R Paranjape

When democratic impulses defy authoritarianism in China and Iran

“Scientific” Law?

Swapan Dasgupta

It is all about the personal philosophies of individual judges

Iran’s youth have been reeling under an economy marred by decades of US sanctions, corruption and the pandemic. The attempts to tighten the noose on social freedoms and the state’s heavy-handedness have therefore invited an almost instant and massive pushback