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Love, caste, politics: Pannalal Patel’s timeless novel challenges Italia’s claims

Following my blog "AAP’s rising star in Gujarat or guardian of patriarchy? The Gopal Italia dilemma", I received an interesting comment from social activist Sudhir Kariyar, who works among tribal workers...

EVMs thrown in pond by mob during final phase of Lok Sabha elections in West Bengal

West Bengal’s polls on the final day of voting sees mob violence as EVMs and VVPATs thrown away in water. The state’s CEO says that fresh EVMs were being organised.

India’s Sixth Phase of elections marked by missing voters and discrimination: Independent Election Observers (IEO)

Interim report of the Citizens Watch process in the national Capital city

Elections Stories I missed in the newspapers that I buy

In his priceless ruminations throughout the 18th Lok Sabha polls the senior journalist brings us to us the shadows and silences by the “commercial” (“mainstream”) media during the coverage of the recent elections

Former Justice KM Joseph: ECI doing the greatest disservice to the constitution and the founding fathers by not taking action against those seeking vote...

In his speech, Justice Joseph speaks on the importance of a free media and an impartial ECI to maintain the values enshrined in our Preamble and the Constitution

Bihar: RJD’s petition booth capturing and rigging at Munger dismissed by SC

The Supreme Court has directed RJD to take the matter up with the Patna High Court after RJD’s Anita Kumari filed her petition claiming that Bihar’s Munger has witnessed bogus voting, booth capturing, and prevention of backward castes from voting.

What Nehru Flagged as ‘Most Dangerous’ Modi Now Invokes for Votes

Nehru also flagged Syama Prasad’s statements that communalism and separatism were not the real problems of India as much as poverty and unemployment were.

Haryana Police body complains to Election Commissioner over votes stolen from them

HPS alleges that senior officials asked policemen deployed in election duty to handover their Form 12 with details and Unstamped Ballot Papers. Form 12 is a formal application for election duty staff to cast their votes through postal ballot.

MHA grants citizenship to applicants from West Bengal, Haryana, Uttarakhand; number of those granted citizenship not revealed

This is the second time since notification of CAA rules that citizenship have been granted to people; development comes as West Bengal goes to polling on June 1, 2024

From Pradhan Sevak to God’s emissary: Is Modi ‘following’ a Hitler legacy?

Democracy is a system of society won after long...

From counting of votes by the rule book to respecting the mandate of the people, transparency and integrity is key: People’s Organisations, Delhi

As a culmination of a ten-month long campaign to ensure that people’s issues that challenge the policies of the regime, two meets in Bengaluru and Delhi (May 21 and May 28) have launched a #VotersWillMustPrevail campaign to closely track the process of counting of votes and smooth transition of power respecting the people’s mandate.

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Shivasundar, a freelance journalist, writer, and longtime associate and dear friend of fiery activist-journalist Gauri Lankesh, who was assassinated on September 5, 2017, by extremists alleged to belong to the dreaded Sanatan Sanstha has penned this heartfelt poem on Gauri. On the eighth anniversary of her dastardly assassination.

New Immigration Order 2025: Streamlined rules, old exclusions

MHA’s latest notification streamlines exemptions for select groups, formalises detention centres, and echoes religion-based exclusions first introduced in 2015, raising constitutional and human rights concerns

The Nation needs an Ethanol Republic – A Satire

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Is AMU, a Vatican of India’s reactionary Muslim elite?

Continuing an active debate around the dominant politics at the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) this former student questions the latent arcane exclusivism that is affecting both quality, representation and diversity within

1.88 lakh dubious double voters found in Bihar, unusual deletion patterns raise doubts

Bihar SIR: 3.76 lakh dubious duplicate votes found, while 65 lakh voters were deleted under suspicious circumstances, the twin reports expose a flawed electoral revision process with high concentrations of mysterious young deaths, biased gender deletions, and unverified "shifts"