Leftist incumbent wins a historic fourth term with 51.8 per cent of the vote, cementing Brazil as a counterweight to Washington as the defeated Bolsonaro refuses to concede.
With the CJP’s call for the CEC’s resignation resonating across the nation, a rattled Central government seems determined to clamp down on the youth even as it goes easy on the political opposition.
Keralam Chief Minister V.D. Satheesan, despite positioning himself as the antithesis of his predecessor, is facing internal criticism within the UDF and accusations that he is replicating Pinarayi Vijayan’s abrasive and opaque style of governance.
Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd’s latest book, which can also be read as an intellectual biography of his Kuruma community, demands an overhaul of how we see and measure knowledge, language, gender, and human dignity.
Gyanesh Kumar will not resign, and the BJP won’t let him. The opposition can’t boycott the ECI or the elections. The window to prevent electoral authoritarianism is closing fast.
From torn nomination papers to alleged police partisanship, the run-up to the local body elections has raised questions about the state machinery and the NDA’s conduct, even as the TDP denies the charges and points fingers back at the YSRCP.
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.
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.
The most dangerous political actors are those so convinced of the virtue of their objectives, they no longer feel obliged to examine the morality of their methods. It is here that Alan Wolfe begins to speak rather uncomfortably to contemporary India.
The use of force against protesters, the detention of journalists and restrictions on movement and internet access in Delhi have raised serious questions about the measures taken by the Delhi Police.
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