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
Jon Henley in Paris Police have fired teargas at protesters as more than 250,000 pupils, teachers and parents demonstrated across France on the biggest day yet of a campaign for better high school conditions that has been marred by often violent clashes with police. The French prime minister, Sébastien Lecornu, said at least 215 teenagers… Read More Riot police fire teargas as 250,000 take part in schools protests across France
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
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
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
++++++++++++++++++++ The Oceanic Circle: Talk on the occasion of Mahatma Gandhi’s 155th birthday ગાંધીજીનું સમુદ્રી વર્તુળ गांधी का समुद्री वर्तुल Domination and Chaos: India’s radical conservatism Treason of the Intellectuals So history didn’t end after all Julien Benda: Our age is the age of the intellectual organization of political hatreds Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann – Repetition and rupture: Reinhart Koselleck, theorist of history… Read More Gandhi Jayanti Keynote Address 2026: GenZ’s Gandhi, by Ashutosh Ranka
