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September 26 ECI Press Note: Does it not render SIR redundant?
The author de-constructs the September 26 press note, point by point, and evolves a list of Ten Demands for a People’s Movement for Accountability & Transparency in India’s Electoral Process
Assam: ‘No to SIR!’ Complete the pending NRC!
A Citizens' Convention Held in Guwahati on Sunday, September 20 had over 150 prominent names from among a significant 300-strong participation across Assam that gave a clear call for a push-back of the SIR
Strengthen gender justice & secular legal frameworks, No To ‘Uniform Control Code’ in garb of UCC: ALIFA
The All-India Feminist Alliance (ALIFA) has rejected the Uniform Control Code in the garb of ‘Uniform Civil Code' in 21 states across India and put forward a demand for governments, instead to strengthen Gender Just and Secular legal frameworks
Struggle for re-inclusion of lakhs of women ‘deceptively excluded by govt’, march to Mumbai: AIDWA
In Dahanu taluka of Thane-Palghar district, 3,000 excluded 'Ladki Bahins' step into the field of struggle, vow to join march to Mantralaya in November
Prioritise ecological security of country over “false narrative” of “highway development”: CCG to Govt & Courts
Former bureaucrats protest the “steady lowering of statutory safeguards for protecting India’s Environment and Forests” in an open letter to the government; both government and the judiciary need to prioritise the ecological security of our country and the health and life of its citizens over the false narrative of more roads, more buildings, more townships, more mines, more industries, more destruction of the natural world that is currently seen as progress.
After some dithering, Odisha government rejects premature release of Graham Staines murder convict Dara Singh
Odisha Chief Minister, Mohan Charan Majhi, had in 2022, when he was a BJP legislator supported demands for Dara Singh’s early release, a demand vocalised by Sudarshan TV’s editor, Suresh Chavhanke
Why Swatantra Bhardwaj is a pawn in our politics
As a fellow Bihari and a native of Darbhanga, my heart goes out to the middle class parents who pawn jewellery and mortgage ancestral property to send their ladlas and ladlis to a big city…
BAPS, the Eiffel Tower and the curious silence on secularism
I was a little surprised to see how some...
Penguin’s Shenanigans
Penguin has repeatedly crossed the line between due diligence and outright censorship. Small publishers, who have a lot more to lose, seem to have more of a spine.
India’s middle‑class crisis: the great bifurcation and the Gen Z uprising
The student protests we have been witnessing in India can be...
Vande Mataram and the 2026 Amendment: From voluntary honour to penal coercion
While the slogan Vande Mataram galvanised millions during India’s struggle for liberation from the clutches of colonial rule, this essay demonstrates that the 2026 Amendment –that the BJP has orchestrated--does not represent historical continuity, but rather a contemporary majoritarian redefinition of a complex national symbol.
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