Mahsa Amini

Hair-Rising in Tehran

Deepika Saraswat

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

Out of the Veil in Iran

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