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No SIR, Not Done!
By Sangeeta Barooah Pisharoty. The names of millions of Indians have been deleted from the voters' list by Gyanesh Kumar.


An UPRISING of CONSCIENCE
By ACL Kalpana in Chennai. The right to dissent matters. The right to assemble peacefully matters. Your refusal to accept injustice as inevitable matters.


Stop the CRACKDOWN on journalists reporting the peaceful protests: Press Club of India
Several journalists, including Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, reporters from The Quint, The Wire, Scroll, Reporter TV, Navbharat Times and Newslaundry were under detention. ‘


‘We Burn Trash, You Burn Our Future... Under Our Text Books, Anger’
By Narendra Pachkhede in London. In India, protests began after the NEET paper leak. France’s lycée revolt asks a similar question from the other end. Schools.


Amit Shah’s Police Manual: ‘Inhuman, Nasty, and Brutish’
So why drag Neha Bora and others with such savagery that her hands, forearms, neck, shoulders are full of wounds?


Punish the Thief who Stole from the Vault of Democracy!
By Ajith Pillai. Scrap Sir. Gyanesh Kumar and his masters must face the consequences.


When History No Longer Requires Us
"We saw that clearly with CJP, where reels, memes, satire and first-person footage became part of the political event itself."


No ‘next time’ for a stolen election
neither an Election Commissioner nor a judge owns Indian democracy. We, the People, do.


Great Cricketers Stand Up for Imran Khan, a Cricket Legend, now Half-Blind, Rotting in a Dark, Solitary Cell, as Army Generals Call the Shots
By Ganpy Natraj. More than 20 great captains and cricketers, including Clive Lyod, Sunil Gavaskar, Kapil Dev, David Gower, Ian Chappel, Mike Brearley, Michael Atherton, Dilip Vengsarkar, David Gower


Ram Mandir Loot: The Buck Stops with the Prime Minister
By NR Mohanty. The video evidence presented by the SIT shows that vehicles loaded with cash, gold and silver offerings have left the Ram Temple premises at least 70 times during a 45-day window.


Kalidas Style: The Axe of FCRA
It is a clear case of borrowing dollars on interest while denying dollars coming free. Independent Ink Editorial The recent jubiliation over India attracting 136 billion USD through The Foreign Currency Non-Resident (Bank) deposit scheme (FCNR-B) seems justified on the face-value. India badly needs inflow of dollars to halt a mounting current account deficit (CAD), as the Indian Rupee has been steadily losing ground to the dollar over the last decade, especially post-COVID. S


‘It is the mind that keeps you going’
She is 29 years old. She led a 23-day hunger strike that brought down a cabinet minister. She danced when it was over. She is still asking for more.


90 lakh voter names deleted! SO WHAT HAPPENED in West Bengal?
By Rahul. SIR data show that over 53% of the deletions were women.


The Man without a CV, and the Man with a Charge Sheet of History
By Narendra Pachkhede in London. The Man without a CV.


SIR, victimhood, and the imaginary woes of a WhatsApp group
It's a no-brainer: without voting rights, there is no citizenship.


Parole, Furlough, and a Full Page ‘Ad’ as Icing on the Cake: So How Sacha Is This Sauda?
By Suresh Nautiyal. He has reportedly been released 17 times since 2020. His latest release, in August 2026, is a 21-day furlough; earlier he has been out of prison for roughly 435 days.


Eiffel Tower, Paris: Women staffers asked to remain ‘invisible’, hide in the back rooms. Why?
By Rajiv Shah. The Eiffel Tower was forced to close for the day after its staff staged a walkout and strike, in protest.


Pakistan’s Shame: Expulsion of Afghan Medical Students and Moral Bankruptcy of the Army Generals
By Murtaza Shibli. The image of a 24-hour eviction notice handed to final-year Afghan medical students will haunt Pakistan’s reputation for years.


A ‘generous’ Rs 20,000 crore write-off...
By NR Mohanty. The question remains: why was the loan write-off approved in th


Facial Recognition: Next time, a Selfie with the Cops?
Toxic language from the Red Fort. Crackdown on dissent. But this time, the tide is turning. No doubt about it.
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