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SRFTI Under Siege: ALIFA Demands VC’s Removal, Independent Inquiry into Campus Violence
13th Nov, 2026: All-India Feminist Alliance (ALIFA) expresses immense concern at the disturbing developments on the Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute (SRFTI-Kolkata) campus since late September. We note...
The painter’s vision: Visual poetics in Shamsher Bahadur Singh’s ‘Dawn’
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Manmohan Singh Posthumous Exoneration
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From Civil Registration to Identity Control: Parliament tightens India’s birth certificate regime without debate
A quiet amendment shifts delayed birth and death registrations from executive officers to judicial magistrates, further hardening India's identity regime while offering little evidence that the new barriers are necessary
Money, Morality and Discipline of Power
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Violence being normalised, U.P. moving towards police state, say retired cops
The present government under chief minister Ajay Bisht (aka Yogi Adityanath) of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is making the police uncivilized, says retired IPS officer of U.P. cadre Vibhuti Narain Rai while former DGP Sulkhan Singh points out that the State is normalising violence leading to an environment where society accepts such violent actions as a form of ‘instant justice’
The script of democracy: Power, language, and consciousness in Dhoomil’s ‘Patakatha’
Sudama Pandey 'Dhoomil's "Patakatha" ("The Script") stands as one...
Kajri: When the Village Sang Together in “Sawan”
Harē Rāma rim-jhim barsē pāniyā, Jhūlē Rādhā rāniyā hē Hari. Hari...
SIR Maharashtra: CEO details schedules for publication & verification of draft and final electoral rolls
Maharashtra, with 9,78,54,049 has electors which is the base figure for the re-examination of electoral rolls under the ongoing SIR; now the CEO Maharashtra has outlined a schedule detailing deadlines for enumeration, draft publication, claims and objections, verification, final electoral roll publication and post-publication correction procedures
Rajya Sabha passes Vande Mataram bill as NCRB data reveals high pendency, low convictions
While Parliament broadens the Prevention of Insults to National Honour Act, crime records show only 60 convictions from over 1,100 arrests between 2014 and 2024
‘Forum for Electoral Integrity’ petitions NHRC over mass voter disenfranchisement under SIR
The Forum for Electoral Integrity has petitioned the National Human Rights Commission to urgently intervene in the Election Commission’s SIR process, citing UN concerns, the coalition alleges the arbitrary, mass deletion of 52 million voters, disproportionately targeting Muslim and Bengali citizens through organised campaigns and opaque AI systems
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Vote Chori: Fake Applications to Delete 28 Voters; Uttarakhand court directs police to register FIR
A concrete case of allegations of criminality and violation of election law and rules, especially related to the Form 7 method of ‘mass deletions’ has come to light from Uttarakhand, with a BLA-2 (Ikram Ali himself petitioning the court for registration of an FIR after his identity and email were misused for 28 deletions: Ali had also approached the Haldwani judicial magistrate for directions to register an FIR which the court has directed on October 6.
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