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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...
A Satirical Plea, Dripping with Envy, to President Xi Jinping of China
In one more of his brilliant satirical pieces, the author pens this letter to the leader of the Great People’s Republic of China authored by the fictional Cyrus Behramji Puranafurniturewala
Learned yet Forgotten: To Dr A K Biswas, a tribute
Despite his original writings and perspective, the death of this academic and civil servant, former Home Secretary of Bihar on February 28, 2025 went largely unnoticed and unsung
Mohammad Shami faces extremist’s backlash for prioritizing professional duty over religion
Amidst extremist backlash for prioritizing professional duty over religious observance, Mohammad Shami has remained steadfast, proving that his commitment to cricket and nation takes precedence. Attacked for drinking an energy drink during Ramadan and his daughter celebrating Holi, Shami has let his performance on the field speak louder than the critics
Why Quranic Principles Advocate Secular Democracy Over Theocracy? Part 1
The Quran's emphasis on justice, consultation (shura), human dignity, religious freedom, and individual self-determination aligns more closely with secular democracy than authoritarian theocracy
Draft DPDP Rules, 2025, seeds of both surveillance and freedom
The recently published Draft DPDP, 2025 Rules (Digital Personal Data Protection Rules) contain some safeguards like consent on data possession, while the shadow of a dystopian future looms large, especially with broad exemptions granted to government agencies for processing data related to public services and subsidies that, in turn, create concerning possibilities for expanded state surveillance under the guise of public interest.
India at the Crossroads: The delimitation exercise and its implications for democracy
With no census having been conducted since 2021 for no explicable reason, the follow-up constitutionally mandated exercise of delimitation will be without foundation; besides, since with each delimitation exercise, the balance of power shifts, a rigid population-based approach, without reforms in fiscal and political decentralisation, risks further centralising authority in the Union government—potentially undermining the very spirit of federalism.
After strong allegations by the TMC that ECI has transformed into the BJP’s “roll-rigging department”: TMC, ECI invites all parties for ‘deliberations’
TMC has strongly raised concerns over "ghost voters" and alleged BJP's collusion with the ECI to manipulate the voter list for the 2026 West Bengal Assembly Election, citing duplicate EPIC numbers and discrepancies in electoral roll. Weeks after the allegations were made in early March, on March 12, newspapers reported that the “ECI had invited all parties for discussions to strengthen the electoral process
IT Bill, 2025: Constitutional betrayal, reviving electoral bonds under the guise of tax reform
New income tax bill defies court verdict on political donations
Manipur tensions escalate over free movement policy: Kuki-Zo resistance and government crackdown
Security forces’ crackdown on Kuki-Zo protest in Kangpokpi leaves one dead, over 40 injured as Manipur’s ethnic tensions worsen; indefinite shutdown announced
India’s election system is being weaponised, will the Opposition act?
The systemic subversion of India’s Electoral System through both the spurious injection of votes and suspect mass deletions of legitimate voters –coupled with the ONOE proposal – could well achieve for the autocratic RSS its dream aim in its centennial year: a strong unitary government that excludes certain denominations from the right to universal franchise
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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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Diwali 2026: Smoke, noise, fires and the failure of restraint
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Maharashtra Gokul Controversy: Mahayuti’s bid to seize control of the state’s largest milk cooperative?
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