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Concerns about opacity, discrepancies in polling data that tend to go unexplained and vulnerability of machines to manipulation give us reason to be...
Only the wealthy can dream of contesting elections, an exercise that can be viewed as a means to control the masses and legitimise State policies...
Jagdeep Singh Chhokar, 80, has been working tirelessly for 25 years to make Indian politics transparent. His patience bore fruit recently with the...
Such a scenario, unlikely as it would seem, would pose an existential threat to the PM. To avoid any such surprises, he is producing nightmares for...
Data disclosure reinforces suspicion that State coercion fuelled donations from businesses in what is arguably the biggest scam in the history of...
The roots of the farmer movement lie in the Sikh cultural tradition, where acting politically and justly, even in the face of certain death, is an...
The answer: No. But the deep suspicion about electronic voting can be quelled by only allowing voters to personally drop VVPAT slips into a box and...
Public sector is shrinking rapidly, and the upper-caste leadership of companies that aren’t State-controlled is disinclined to voluntarily undertake...
Subtle and profound, author Vivek Shanbhag’s book explores, through fiction, the meaning that the idea of revolution holds for those whose faith in...
By seeking to heap humiliation on a community for political ends and ruthlessly clamping down on regional powers, the BJP seems to be modelling itself...
Like the root vegetable, Bihar’s CM—who hasn’t been able to expand his base to come to power on his own—mixes well with any dish but is far...
The BJP is seeking to usher in yet another moment of Hindutva triumphalism by arguing in the Supreme Court against the varsity’s minority status, in...
Feisty octogenarian fighter of unpopular causes explains how the rising tide of violence is a consequence of callousness on the part of a populace...
Amid celebrations of a grave injustice, many will be reminded of nights spent in terror and haunted by the knowledge that Ayodhya won’t be the last...
There is a sense that the judiciary will not intercede on behalf of those arrayed against the powers that be; liberty can be truly secured only if a...
Intent matters, Bhagat Singh and B K Dutt told the court that tried them for dropping bombs in Central Assembly... This principle applies to also...
This question is being asked by those whose faith in judiciary has been shaken by judgment on Article 370 and complaints regarding politically...
One sure way of addressing the disquiet over the EVM is to count VVPAT slips in each constituency until the winner can be announced with high...
Sunday’s results show that the electorate does not really worry about BJP ordering raids on political rivals or jailing civil rights activists;...
The BJP may want to appropriate the top World Cup peformer in the hope of giving itself a facelift, but Muslims will not b forgiving of the party that...
The top BJP leader unfailingly predicting a win for the party before every assembly poll is par for the course; what’s baffling, however, is a top...
At a rally in MP, the PM hailed his government for appointing the first Dalit chief information commissioner. Yet, days before, the BJP gave a poll...
Amid talk of nari shakti, the powers that be are seeking to silence, discredit and malign the outspoken Trinamool Congress for daring to raise the...
Jamal Ara was a fascinating personality beset by tragedy: she overcame her lack of education to publish scientific papers on birds in top journals,...
From arrests based on complaints citing ‘secret inputs’ to the seizure of electronic devices without securing them, both cases reveal the malice...
Our news presenters, who insist on labelling Palestinian fighters as terrorists, must study history and nuance their coverage of the West Asian...
Targeting of news platform calls to mind fake cases filed by British against those engaged in the first battle to give tongue to India’s soul ...
Congress’s vociferous demand for a caste Census ideologically aligns the party with OBC groups and enhances I.N.D.I.A’s capacity to take on the...
It was an experience involving a Dalit classmate that led RJD Rajya Sabha MP Manoj Kumar Jha to transcend his caste identity and champion the cause of...
The audience sees in Jawan a critique of the PM, in contrast to BJP supporters and the apolitical, who view it as just a thriller Shah Rukh Khan in...
We have been conditioned into accepting the violence against the Scheduled Castes as inevitable. This method of rationalisation is now slowly being...