The Election Commission of India has announced a slew of course corrections and a show of unity, but experts and activists say the measures leave core issues unaddressed and accountability unfixed.

The Home Ministry’s sudden notification to change who can become an enumerator for Census 2027 is generating suspicion, with allegations that the BJP wants to extend its political agenda through the census as well.

There is a definite Left imprint in the ongoing protests across cities, which shows an interesting amalgam of new media with old rights-based issues.

The acclaimed writer places her writing in the “weird speculative fiction” tradition, a hybrid genre where magical realism is infused with horror.

The ECI’s decisions began to be tracked and critiqued by the opposition from 2017 onwards. Since then, the censure has only grown louder, with each exposé reducing the credibility of this once-venerated institution.

The ECI’s decline from being one of the most trusted and reputed public institutions to an object of wide disparagement can also be traced to the re-emergence of single-party dominance.

Rather than worry about electoral gains or losses, any mobilisation against Gyanesh Kumar, the SIR, and the ECI must have as its only objective the reinstatement of full integrity in the electoral process.

The preparing of the rolls is when Indians experience a collective sense of national identity. It is this idea of citizenship that the SIR has upended with its explicitly exclusionary stance.