In 2025, the Election Commission of India (ECI) conducted the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in Bihar. It made news. Those on the Left said it was the ‘biggest disenfranchisement exercise’. Now, with some members of the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress (TMC) approaching the Supreme Court of India against the SIR in West Bengal, The Dossier […]
Last month, I was attending the second day of the Delhi University Literature Festival with my junior when a frantic call shattered the afternoon. Over the call, he was told that a friend of his, whom he had known since his undergrad days, Ruchi Tiwari, a journalist by profession, was being lynched in broad daylight […]
Every constitutional democracy is defined by its ability to preserve principled distinctions inter dissentum et subversionem, between dissent and disruption; inter protestationem et provocationem, between lawful protest and incitement; and ultimately between civil resistance and organised attempts to undermine constitutional order. India confronted this test in February 2020, when the National Capital Territory of Delhi […]
In 2025, the Election Commission of India (ECI) conducted the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in Bihar. It made news. Those on the Left said it was the ‘biggest disenfranchisement exercise’. Now, with some members of the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress (TMC) approaching the Supreme Court of India against the SIR in West Bengal, The Dossier […]
It’s been more than three decades, and over 100 school and college-going Hindu girls are still waiting for justice. In 1992, through a local newspaper, it emerged that these girls were raped and blackmailed by affluent young men, mostly Muslims, from influential families of Ajmer, Rajasthan. Many of these men included those associated with the […]