It’s understandable to feel a little stuck when a website suddenly tells you that cookies must be enabled before you can move forward. You didn’t do anything wrong, and you’re not being singled out. This is simply how many websites are built: they rely on small pieces of data called cookies to remember who you are, keep you signed in, remember your preferences, and make sure the pages you visit work the way they’re supposed to. Think of cookies as a kind of short-term memory for your browser. Without them, every click is like meeting the site for the very…

A Viral Claim, A Divided Reality: What Really Happened in Manipur? It begins, as so many dangerous things do, with a post that makes your heart stop. A message began circulating across social media, carrying a photograph and a story that seemed to demand immediate outrage. The Indian Army, the claim said, had shot two women dead in Manipur and then set their houses on fire. Not only that, the post insisted, the act had been carried out on the direct orders of Lieutenant General V. M. Bhuvana Krishnan, the Commander of the Eastern Command. The implication was staggering: not…