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Supreme Court Needs to Relook at the EVM-VVPAT Judgement | Sandeep Pandey
4 May, by Sandeep PandeyThe Supreme Court in its judgement has backed the system of Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) and Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) that is used in India for conducting elections and simply refused to consider the option of going back to (...) -
How India uses national interest as a smokescreen to muzzle the media | Simran Agarwal
4 MayThe Indian government is weaponising ‘national interest’ measures to close down reporting it deems critical of the Modi government.
The idea of a squadron of government officials storming a newsroom to shut down news-gathering and seize laptops (...) -
2024 General Elections: Frustration leads to Desperation | JP Gadkari
4 May, by J P GadkariMay 2, 2024
It is said that when frustratiion sets in, people get desparate and indulge in making illogical moves, talk about events twisting things out of context or indulge in telling blatant lies and repeatedly defend those lies..
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India’s First Metadata case: Why Prashant Kishor is wrong about Aadhaar Number Online Database Part 6 | Gopal Krishna
4 May"I have a file on you."
M. K. Narayanan’s routine threat to his adversaries as National Security Adviser (NSA) quoted in Sanjay Baru’s book ’The Accidental Prime Minister: The Making and Unmaking of Manmohan Singh’
"One way to ensure that the (...) -
Wave of Pro-Palestinian Student Protests in American Universities and the Crackdown on these | Soma Marla
4 May, by Soma S. MarlaStudents across the United States in campuses from Columbia to Emory to California are protesting in solidarity with Palestine. Protests expressing anguish about Israeli genocide are now spilling over to university campuses in Paris and other (...) -
Palestinian-Israeli conflict: Break out of exclusive ethno-nationalism for transversal solidarities across borders | Nira Yuval Davis
4 MayI watched and listened to Naomi Klein’s speech at the People’s Seder and her call for American Jews’ exodus from Zionism in NYC and felt nostalgic and sad. When I first left Israel in 1969 to the USA and discovered Jews, including a reform Rabbi, (...) -
Leon Trotsky | Paul Mattick (1940)
4 MayWith Leon Trotsky there passed away the last of the great leaders of Bolshevism. It was his activity during the last fifteen years that kept alive some of the original content of the Bolshevik ideology — the great weapon for transforming backward (...) -
In Praise of Resistance | Eqbal Ahmad
4 MayFebruary 16, 1995
Like all professions teaching has its rewards. Some of these come instantly as students absorb, create and, often enough, improve upon received knowledge. Others are those that arrive late; among them I count former students (...) -
A Green Day – Manifesto For a Greener Delhi | Jeevesh Gupta
4 MayAIR POLLUTION
Despite repeated promises of a clean air, Delhites continue to suffer from air borne diseases with the city becoming unliveable. Citizens especially young children are finding it tougher and tougher to breathe the city air. The (...) -
Modi up for flaring communal polarisation to reverse the voting trend in his favour | Arun Srivastava
4 MayNarendra Modi is famous for shifting goalposts. This may be construed as the sign of an astute and shrewd politician. But it is not the reality. During the last fortnight, in the midst of high-pitched electoral battle, Modi has frequently (...)