Only a forensic audit and a full inquiry can determine their level of administrative culpability in this massive exclusion of voters ‘First Time Since Independence So Many Voters Lost Voting Rights’: Ex-CEC O.P. Rawat on SIR Exercise Bharat Bhushan The legal plea of ‘just following orders’ (known as the Nuremberg defence) is untenable in modern… Read More What about Gyanesh Kumar’s backroom collaborators?
Women say nothing has changed since Delhi’s infamous Nirbhaya bus rape case 14 years ago Student activists protest against alleged gang rapes. Photograph: Rajat Gupta/EPA DU की लड़कियों के ये नारे क्यों हैं इतने VIRAL ? Hannah Ellis-Petersen and Aakash Hassan in Delhi The posters, just like the women holding them, were taking no prisoners.… Read More ‘We want justice’: series of rapes trigger mass protests at Indian universities
When a workers’ protest is branded a conspiracy, who pays for it, and who walks free? http://www.reporters-collective.in It has been nearly six months since the workers’ protest in Noida. While our lives have moved on, many workers and activists detained on mere suspicion by the police remain behind bars. A quick recap for those who… Read More The Government Agents of violence in Noida
But think of the implications of this dynamic. It is a way of saying that the rot in the system does not begin and end in politics; it saturates a whole elite and perhaps even a generation of voters and public servants Rarely in the annals of Indian constitutional history have two key institutions, the… Read More Pratap Bhanu Mehta: Election Commission and Court make it harder, not easier, to believe in independent institutions
RSS Ideology Launching पर Sanjay Singh की दमदार Speech Saffron Shadows: The RSS, A Century of Influence is a newly released anthology edited by writer and social activist Leher Sethi that examines the century-long journey and polarizing impact of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). +++++++++++ Rahul Gandhi defamation case: Savarkar’s grandson admits Nathuram, Gopal Godse… Read More Sanjay Singh’s Speech on the ideology of the RSS
NB: The rule of capital is an indirect despotism, mediated by ideology. In the successor states of the British empire in South Asia the communal hatred that accompanied Independence and partition resulted in a permanent military dictatorship in Pakistan; and an uneasy tension between secular democracy and communal politics in India. Over the past decade… Read More Electoral Inquisition
LIVE: Ashutosh Ranka Assam से रिहा होते Himanta Biswa Sarma पर फायर, बोले- कॉकरोचों से डर गए CM| CJP Ashutosh Ranka on CJP Detentions, Assam Plans, Mumbai Agitation and ECI Row CJP Co-Founder Ashutosh Ranka speaks from Guwahati on the detention of CJP volunteers, Abhijeet Dipke’s Assam visit, and the organisation’s plans for Assam and… Read More Ashutosh Ranka on CJP Detentions, Assam Plans, Mumbai Agitation and ECI Row
WHO MANIPULATED THE VOTERS LIST AND FOR WHOSE BENEFIT? आयोग के हर जवाब में निकल आया झोल,बाई इलेक्शन ही तो है-CJI, सुप्रीम कोर्ट का कैसा जवाब इंडियन एक्सप्रेस में रिपोर्ट छपने के 72 घंटे बाद चुनाव आयोग ने जवाब तो दिया मगर जवाब देकर फंस गया। जिस जवाब के दम पर बीजेपी आयोग को क्लीन… Read More Ravish Kumar: आयोग के हर जवाब में निकल आया झोल,बाई इलेक्शन ही तो है-CJI, सुप्रीम कोर्ट का कैसा जवाब
Halfway through 2024 the world got to an unspeakable, unwritable place. Israel’s orgiastic genocide of the Palestinians. Malignant capitalism. Murderous misogyny. Poisoned politics. It was literally beyond words. The ethical bankruptcy of power everywhere short-circuited my vocabulary into a charred and smoking ruin. Since I process dark, smelly feelings by articulating them, wordlessness only made… Read More Mitali Saran: Power and the nothingburger
Humour and knowledge are the two great hopes of civilisation: Konrad Lorenz Bharat Bhushan The Narendra Modi regime, carefully constructed as an unassailable fortress of absolute power, has suddenly begun to look permeable. Two new developments challenge the desired image of seamless centralisation. One is the weakening of social prohibitions against mocking Modi in public,… Read More Indore laughter and ECI leaks are signs of breaches in Narendra Modi’s fortress
