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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…
Bihar’s untraceable electors spiral by 809% in just one day, ECI reports 1 lakh ‘missing’, 15 lakh Bihar voters yet to submit forms
Bihar's Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of voter rolls faces intense backlash, while 52 lakh deletions were flagged by July 22 by the controversial ECI, including 11,484 "untraceable" electors, this figure for "untraceable" voters shockingly surged to 1 lakh (an 809% jump) by July 23, with overall deletions hitting 56 lakh—a dramatic increase of 3 lakh in just 24 hours. Leader of the Opposition, RJD leader, Tejaswi Yadav threatens boycott of state polls
In a ‘major win’ for anti-caste activists, a US Federal Court upholds California Govt’s authority to act against caste oppression
The US District Court for the Eastern District of California in its ruling on July 18, in response to an allegation by the Hindu American Foundation that had claimed that the California civil rights department's enforcement of anti-caste policies violated the “constitutional rights of all Hindu Americans,” dismissed HAF’s contention
When data is used as a weapon against reality: Deviations in the HCES & CES, claims of poverty line
This Household Consumption Expenditure Survey (HCES) is qualitatively different in methodology (including sampling) from the earlier Household Consumer Expenditure Survey (CES) last conducted in 2011-12, and therefore the two are not comparable. So the claim that India’s poverty has declined to below 5% doesn’t hold water: Second, the NITI Aayog has made no effort to even determine an official poverty line, last defined in the Census 2001.
ECI to SC: Voter ID insufficient for Bihar roll, defends citizenship verification power
Bihar’s electoral roll crisis: ECI defends excluding Voter IDs for new entries and power to citizenship verification; ECI’s revision flags 52.3 Lakh (6.62%) electors not found at their addresses (including 18.6L deceased, 26L shifted, 7.5L multiple entries and 11K untraceable voters), amid concerns over disenfranchisement of genuine voters and procedural hurdles, opposition stages black-clad protests outside the Bihar assembly
Weaponising Truth: A critical analysis of the Karnataka Misinformation and Fake News (Prohibition) Bill, 2025
Marketed as a tool to fight disinformation, the Karnataka Misinformation and Fake News (Prohibition) Bill, 2025 hands sweeping powers to the executive, criminalises speech, and threatens to silence dissent, satire, and critique—under vague and ideological pretexts
‘Define Special Intensive Revision scope… make it clear not linked to citizenship’: BJP ally TDP writes to CEC Gyanesh Kumar
Questioning the modus of the recently begun controversial SIR exercise, the TDP letter to Election Commission (ECI) states categorically that any such ‘Special Intensive Revision’ (SIR) should provide voters enough time, and that those in electoral rolls must not be required to re-establish eligibility “unless specific and verifiable reasons are recorded”
Journalist Ajit Anjum booked for exposing Bihar’s SIR flaws
Senior journalist Ajit Anjum faces FIR in Balia, Bihar for exposing alleged voter list irregularities, he calls the FIR "a certificate for me as a journalist," vowing to continue reporting despite perceived intimidation tactics, Anjum said “I will not be scared. I will show only the truth”
Behind the numbers: Economist Indira Hirway debunks India’s poverty reduction narrative
A recent article by noted economist Indira Hirway, titled...
Israel’s Rafah camp – ‘humanitarian city’ or crime against humanity?
Israel’s Defence Minister Israel Katz has announced a controversial...
Indian Muslims need to be protected as much from the communalism of their co-religionists as majoritarian communalism: In remembrance of CM Naim
An intrepid critique of entrenched and entitled Muslim elites, CM Naim, a historian and essayist, recently passed away at 85. Here his work is remembered for its out of the box thinking and commitment to both the culture and language around Urdu; an essay that recalls his works
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