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Monthly Archives: October, 2026

The process is the punishment

The SC/ST Act lets an FIR do a verdict's work. At IIT Bombay, the penalty came before the hearing.

Pratap Bhanu Mehta wants to defend democracy by making institutions surrender to the street

The Cockroach Janta Party has managed to combine "two sources of public anger", the...

Why so selective, UN?

On 7 October 2026, the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) wrote to the Delhi Police...

Behind sacred walls

Three decades of deaths and expulsions, and a Church that still answers only to itself

At four, Bengal wakes to celebrate the cosmic war

For three centuries, many have tried to own Durga Puja. None has.

India didn’t delete 130 million voters. It found where they moved. 

"130 million Indians removed from voting." That is the line now travelling around the...

The case against the SIR starts from its conclusion 

ON 5 OCTOBER 2026, the Supreme Court declined to suspend the Chief Election Commissioner...

A senior advocate, a smiley and a burning court

Senior Advocates are not, as a rule, given to emojis. So I studied Sanjoy...

Had Smit Machchhar died, the ‘saffron terror’ smear was ready

An Omani co-pilot attacked an Indian captain at 30,000 feet. Wounded, the captain still...

The verses no one will quote about the flydubai attack

So, it’s out in public now that the co-pilot who attacked Captain Smit Machchhar...

When a broken promise becomes a crime

Courts are deciding what India's new false-promise-of-marriage law means, while a challenge to whether it should exist at all has sat unheard for two years.

Gandhi’s ‘Hey Ram’ to Congress’s ‘Rich Ram’

On Monday, Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy of the Congress offered a theology of...

Part II: India for sale

The institution — Ford, Rockefeller and the architecture of development

Stabbed, he still saved the plane. The world’s media called it a brawl.

You must be aware by now of the flydubai flight case. If not: on...