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To Karnataka’s Anti-SIR Movement: A note of caution and concern
While efforts have been afoot in Karnataka, Maharashtra, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh by civil rights groups and people’s movements to ensure inclusion of the maximum number of eligible voters under the ongoing, expanded, SIR process. The author argues how these efforts may come to naught, given the structural issues involved: a compromised ECI, rushed timelines and the unlawful and rigid document-test for citizenship. In fact, robust efforts in Kerala, West Bengal and Tamil Nadu where similar efforts were made also came to naught.
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
Gujarat: A Painful Period in Salt Pans of Little Rann of Kutch
Women workers go through a cycle of agony in the eight months they toil in salt pans, where poor water availability and lack of medical help make monthly bleeding scary.
Hindu festivals and sectarian nationalist politics
RSS Combine’s agenda of Hindu Rashtra has been built...
The Feared: A wake-up call to the gross human rights violations inflicted on thousands of undertrials
The Feared is a collection of interviews conducted by...
Electoral Trusts Scheme: Utter non-transparency in political funding & an unholy nexus between big corporate giants and major political parties
The rise of the Electoral Trusts scheme, post-electoral bonds, with minimal transparency to the public, underscores the persistence of corporate dominance in political financing: the massive 2024-25 mop up of ₹1,179 crore—the total sum funnelled by these Electoral Trusts - is close to the entire 2025 budget allocation for judiciary infrastructure or the estimated funding for cutting-edge R&D at Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC)!
Goa: Who Fears The Truth?
How Hindutva Supremacists are engaged in 'rewriting history'.
The Global Financing of Hindu Supremacism: How corporations and diaspora networks fuel Hindutva’s rise
An in-depth overview of the Polis Project’s report exposing the corporate and transnational funding behind Hindu nationalist politics, its impact on minorities, and the urgent need for global accountability.
Bodh Gaya: Why the Mahabodhi Temple must be handed over to Buddhists
When all progressive political thought have acknowledged Bodh Gaya’s identity as a Buddhist shrine, what stops political parties from ensuring that this demand becomes a reality?
India saw 84 internet shutdowns in 2024: Access Now Report
In 2024, India recorded 84 internet shutdowns, the highest among democratic nations, according to Access Now’s report "Emboldened Offenders, Endangered Communities." While India saw a decrease from 116 shutdowns in 2023, it still remains a significant player in global internet disruptions
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