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The State Wants the Delete Button: India’s new architecture of digital censorship
Nearly 1.95 lakh blocking directions in five months raise urgent questions about transparency, due process and the constitutional limits of government control over online speech
Talking down to farmers is the worst way to engage with them
First they were silent, then they said things which made the silence seem more appealing. Here are some things senior politicians should not have said to farmers at all!
UP’s tryst with Love Jihad: The Ordinance and Constitutionality
Tracing the history of anti-conversion laws from the 1960s to the enactments to ‘prevent love jihad’ legislation, Desai argues how these laws, seen historically, are a transformation from a hesitant Hindu right wing nationalism to a highly bellicose- no holds barred avatar evidenced at present; all in all, a litmus test for India’s Constitutional Courts.
104-year-old ‘declared foreigner’ dies asserting his Indianness in Assam
Chandrahar Das, a registered refugee from Bangladesh, was declared ‘foreigner’ as the Dementia and Parkinson’s Disease afflicted man, arrested at the age of 101, could not recall when he crossed into the country!
SC advice to government seen as moral victory for farmers
Farmers’ organisation takes stock of events so far and assert that the Union government’s attempts to divide farmers will not succeed.
Karnataka HC permits Amnesty International to withdraw limited funds from frozen accounts
The petitioner organisation argued that they are being constantly harassed and the donations made to them are not for profit but for upholding human rights
Farmers protest intensifies: Delhi-Noida Link Road closed
Barricades set up, additional forces deployed; this a sign of more farmers from Uttar Pradesh joining those from Punjab and Haryana
Stop defaming peasant movement: Farmers reject latest gov’t proposal
Farmers’ leaders write a letter to stop further misinformation and call on citizens to observe Homage day for farmers who died during the movement
NRIs to soon get postal ballot voting, what about migrants?
CJP had petitioned the ECI in July proposing postal ballot voting for migrants who are unable to exercise their right, for similar reasons as NRIs
Farmers are being misled about agriculture reforms: PM
Prime Minister Narendra Modi makes a speech in Gujarat, even as farmers continue peaceful agitation on Delhi-Haryana-Uttar Pradesh borders
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The State Wants the Delete Button: India’s new architecture of digital censorship
Nearly 1.95 lakh blocking directions in five months raise urgent questions about transparency, due process and the constitutional limits of government control over online speech
India
Punjab SIR draft roll published; 20 lakh electors marked ASDD, claims open till September 12
Nearly 1.94 crore (19.4 million) enumeration forms digitised during SIR; over 20 lakh electors categorised as absent, shifted, dead or duplicate (ASDD), Voters whose names are missing from the draft can file claims for inclusion till September 12, even as complaints on social media during the enumeration phase highlighted difficulties faced by electors
Communalism
When Faith Becomes a Licence for Control: The 2026 Kanwar yatra, violence, vigilantism and the politics of meat
From attacks on vehicles and commuters to the targeting of Muslim-owned businesses and meat shops, the 2026 pilgrimage raises urgent questions about vigilantism, selective policing and the State's accommodation of majoritarian demands
India
Maharashtra SIR: 2.08 crore (20.8 million) voter forms “uncollected” hence may not be listed in August 24 draft electoral roll
More than 1 in 5 voter enumeration forms have remained “uncollected” on the final day of Maharashtra’s SIR exercise, with urban districts accounting for a large share of those bureaucratically “excluded”-- nearly 95 lakh forms were uncollected in Thane, Mumbai and Pune, though voters left out of the draft will get a month to seek inclusion or correction
Minorities
Jharkand government accused of continued communal lynchings by fact-finding team
The fact-finding team that comprised representatives of Jharkhand Janadhikar Mahasabha, Karwan e Mohabbat, Sajha Kadam and United Milli Forum has demanded that both the family of the deceased (lynched) man and victim survivor be provided protection and an impartial probe be conducted
India
Sumit Sarkar: Engaged scholarship, ways of historical thinking, an enduring legacy
Scholar of modern India with a path breaking approach to research and his discipline, historian Sumit Sarkar transformed how modern Indian history was understood, bringing ordinary people and their experiences to the centre of historical scholarship
Gender and Sexuality
When Family Becomes Custody: Allahabad HC holds adult women’s faith, residence and liberty cannot be placed under parental control
Holding that an alleged unlawful conversion cannot become a licence for private confinement, the Court separates the legality of religious conversion from the legality of detention—and holds the father and Uttar Pradesh State jointly liable for ₹25 lakh in constitutional compensation