What or who is the constitutional pal?
Let’s trace some late-July developments that initially seem unrelated. The state forgives majoritarian violence, monumentalises majoritarian leadership and criminalises insurgent resistance, all while the histories of Christians, Adivasis and victims of communal violence are pushed to the margins. 1. Dara Singh: remission and selective rehabilitation Odisha Likely Set to Free Dara Singh: A look at…
The CJP mobilisation deserves neither liberal romanticisation nor cynical dismissal. Its contradictions must be approached dialectically. Thousands of young people mobilised because their futures had been reduced to leaked examinations, unemployment, corruption and institutional contempt. Many came out without organisational protection, faced police violence, detention and threats, and still…
After Erasure: A Republic That Forgets on Purpose On March 31, I wrote about erasure, about how visibility itself becomes a threat in a State that prefers its citizens quiet, compliant, and undocumented. Three weeks later, the scale of that erasure has only expanded. Not in abstraction. In numbers, in bodies, in land, in law. And more dangerously, in memory. 1. The disenfranchisement In West…
On the eve of Trans Day of Visibility 2026, India enacted a law that narrows transgender recognition, deepens state control, and institutionalises mistrust.
On 26 February 2026, Narendra Modi stood before the Knesset, the first Indian leader in history to do so, and in that moment, an old foreign-policy fault line snapped into a new geopolitical alignment. At a time when the world watches the flames of genocide, famine, ethnic cleansing, and humanitarian crisis in Gaza, Modi delivered an antithesis to solidarity with a nuanced balancing act. He…
How Grok AI automated misogyny and why law and policy are lagging behind digital gender-based violence
Sickened to the pit of the stomach. From god-men-rapists 1 to MLA-but-not-public-servant-rapists 2 walking free to the casualised, state-sanctioned humiliations of rape victims when they protest, the forced unveilings of Muslim women 3 are brushed off by our prabhari log as routine aggressive-governance 4 or a joke 5 with excuses ready on a silver platter 6 to defend them and the domination of…
You cannot unwrite history. You cannot scrub history. You cannot unwrite the razing and desecration. You cannot unwrite the sowing of seeds of hatred. You cannot unwrite the riots. You cannot unwrite the establishment of holy over the rubles and bones of unholy deeds. You cannot unwrite the smoke that hung over rooftops like a curse. You cannot unwrite the silence that followed, heavier than any…
A plain-language explainer of the Madrid People’s Tribunal on the Taliban’s gender persecution: what it is, what happened, and why it matters now.