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Monthly Archives: October, 2026

Part I: The vote that can say only one thing

* This is the first in a series on how India elects and governs itself....

He said ‘regime change’

PRASHANT BHUSHAN leaned towards the microphone at the Press Club of India on 15...

Blame the rapist, not the Goddess

Every year as Navratri approaches, a familiar set of captions floods social media: "They...

Starlink must meet India’s terms

Elon Musk has a gift for dressing up a sales pitch as charity. Starlink...

Part III: India for sale

The cultural front — magazines, books, cinema and the manufacture of legitimacy

Amitav Ghosh’s sweeper-woman doesn’t need rescuing

In Amitav Ghosh's The Calcutta Chromosome, Elijah Farley visits D. D. Cunningham's laboratory in...

America’s PERM freeze barely hurts India, and quietly flatters it

Few reactions to Washington’s latest move have been as misleading as that of the...

Why wait for the verdict when there’s a camera?

On 12 October 2026, the INDIA bloc marched on the Supreme Court. Delhi closed...

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...