We won’t be telling you Mitali Saran Reposting this column, which was published in Business Standard newspaper in 2015, because October 10, 2026 was only the latest symptom of the undeclared ways in which we are not at present a democracy. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard. In command is Captain Fantastic. Exciting new guy, strong,… Read More In the event of an Emergency
To online partisans of Opposition parties who see the hidden hand of the Aam Aadmi Party or the BJP in the CJP’s successful mobilisations, if the suppression of Jantar Mantar 2.0 doesn’t discredit your conspiratorial daftness, you’re probably immune to lived experience. Mukul Kesavan Jantar Mantar 2.0 will spur pundits to think of the electoral… Read More Help at hand: The struggle against electoral Inquisition will be long and hard
http://www.reporters-collective.in Have you submitted documents during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process to retain your name on the electoral roll? Well, the Election Commission of India (ECI) has now introduced a new process in Delhi that allows voters to establish their eligibility without submitting any documents. The ECI is forcing booth level officers (BLOs) to… Read More Election Commission forcing BLOs to verify without documents
The Good Soldier Švejk is an unfinished satirical novel by Czech writer Jaroslav Hašek, published in 1921–1923, about a good-humored, simple-minded man who appears to be enthusiastic to serve Austria-Hungary in World War I. When the interrogator proceeds to enumerate the crimes of which he is supposedly guilty, Švejk accepts them with the same disarming… Read More Švejk is Reborn in India
NB: It’s not planet Earth that is in danger, its sustainable life which is in danger. The planet will continue to exist long after we have destroyed ourselves. DS The present Indian govt is one of the biggest committers of ecocide in the world today Author and Blogger Avay Shukla to Karan Thapar for The… Read More The present Indian govt is one of the biggest committers of ecocide in the world today
http://www.reporters-collective.in The Mysterious 16.18 Lakh Voters Added to Uttar Pradesh’s Roll Uttar Pradesh is six months away from its assembly elections, so it is time to pull back the curtain on last year’s shadowy special intensive revision, and what it did to the state’s voter rolls. India’s self-incubated East India Company News reports in January… Read More The Mysterious 16.18 Lakh Voters Added to Uttar Pradesh’s Roll
The latest investigation by The Indian Express found that Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi had formally objected at least 14 times over ten months to decisions concerning voter registration, deletions and the centralisation of the voter database.…Over the past decade, the ECI has been criticised for allowing the Bharatiya Janata Party to… Read More Cheques and imbalances: the taming of the Election Commission of India (2024)
Dear readers, in a note above an earlier post, Electoral Inquisition, I mentioned the outstanding features of our ruling establishment: it uses democracy to destroy democracy it demands eternal power in the name of the people – defined as those who agree with it it seeks the ‘look’ of legitimacy by subjugating the autonomy of… Read More India’s self-incubated East India Company
आर्यमान जैन और इरिना चीमा / Aryaman Jain and Irina Cheema देश में चल रहे युवा आंदोलन ने हम सब को शिक्षा और युवाओं के भविष्य पे सोचने को मजबूर कर दिया है। तत्कालीन मुद्दा NEET एग्ज़ाम में पेपर लीक का है लेकिन आंदोलन में दिख रही ऊर्जा बताती है की बात उस से ज़्यादा… Read More कॉकरोच के दौर में शिक्षा पर पुनर्विचार | Rethinking Education in the Year of the Cockroach
The historic wave of labour unrest that swept India Zaen Alkazi {ONE} MORNINGS ARE TYPICALLY RUSHED at Hosiery Complex NOIDA, a prominent industrial hub in Uttar Pradesh. In the urban village of Yakubpur, thousands of migrant workers wake up in small and windowless rooms, rented from local Gurjar farmers, and get ready for work. They… Read More Striking Back
