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RSS at 100: Can Akhand Bharat be Reimagined?
India’s progress depends on fostering Hindu–Muslim harmony and healing. Does the RSS have the imagination to shed its exclusionary ideas?
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The ECI’s Credibility Collapse; Bihar SIR Biggest Biggest Disenfranchisement Exercise in History – 2 Articles
‘The ECI’s Credibility Collapse’: The Election Commission’s opacity and its willingness to bend rules in favour of the ruling dispensation strike at the root of constitutional democracy. Also: ‘SIR is the Biggest Disenfranchisement Exercise in History: Yogendra Yadav’.
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Trampling the Constitution in Assam: 3 Articles
‘Assam’s Plan to Expel “Illegal Migrants” Overnight is a New Extrajudicial Model of Mass Disenfranchisement’; ‘Corrosive Rhetoric Against Bengali-Speaking Muslims is Tearing Assam Apart’; and: ‘Two Leaves and a Bud From Assam’: Insaniyat and Bhupen Hazarika’s humanism are the lessons we have grown up with, says Syeda Hameed.
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Rejection of Bail of Umar, Gulfisha, Sharjeel: Credibility of Courts at Stake – 2 Articles
‘How Long is Too Long? Umar, Gulfisha, Sharjeel and Crisis of Credibility of Courts’: Release of the Delhi riots conspiracy prisoners, who continue to face incarceration for five plus years without a trial, is no longer a legal issue. It is a test of this nation’s moral conscience. Also: ‘How The Rejection of Bail for Muslim Activists Accused in the Delhi Riots Defies the Law, Facts and Fairness’.
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Why the Controversy About Modi’s Degrees is a Test for Indian Democracy
By shielding the prime minister’s documents from scrutiny, the court has told Indians that we don’t need to ask questions – we only need to believe our leader.
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Capitalism | Fascism | Online Blog | USA
Trumponomics: Labor Market Cracking, While Oligarchy’s Wealth Soars – 5 Articles
‘Devastating New Jobs Report Shows Labor Market Cracking Under Trump’; ‘Jobless Claims Highest in 4 Years as Tariff-Driven Layoffs, Price Hikes Wreak Havoc on U.S. Workers’; ‘Trumponomics in Trouble’; ‘Trump’s Dictatorship and the American Oligarchy’; ‘“Insane Economics,” Bernie Sanders Says of Musk’s Trillionaire Potential’.
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Syria After Assad
The Syrian government has been keen to deepen its normalisation process with Israel. There is also no conversation anywhere about protection of the Alawi and Christian minorities, who have taken the brunt of the attacks by the government-led forces.
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Remembering Gauri Lankesh – An Article, and A Poem
‘Gauri Lankesh: Writer, Fighter, Speaker, Friend’: An excerpt from “I Am on the Hit List: Murder and Myth-Making in South India”. Also a poem by Shivasundar in Gauri Lankesh’s memory on the eighth anniversary of her assassination.
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Democracy on a Precipice; Making Sense of the 130th Constitution Amendment Bill – 2 Articles
‘Democracy on a Precipice’: Modi and Shah have turned their attention to the last freedom that remains: the right to decide who will rule through free and fair elections; ‘In Numbers: Making Sense of the 130th Constitution Amendment Bill’.
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In Today’s India, Some Will Not be Indians No Matter How Many Documents They Possess
With processes like the revision of electoral rolls and the NRC, the State is going further down the path of sorting out who can and cannot belong in New India.
