Barricades and the Street

On Saturday morning, New Delhi looked like a war zone without war. Checkpoints every 200 meters, paramilitary troops, riot-control vehicles and desert...

Jantar Mantar, Shifted

Detained far from Lutyens, protesters turned stadiums into new Jantar Mantars. Inside Chhatrasal and Rajiv Gandhi complexes, slogans, complaints and c...

Capital on Lockdown

Delhi turned into a fortress on Saturday to thwart a protest demanding CEC's resignation, with mass detentions, Metro closures and barricades raising ...

Power, Institution, and the Shadow of Doubt

Mounting questions over electoral sanctity, executive accountability, and the unyielding resistance of the Opposition have brought Indian democracy to...

FIR vs LOP: Criminalising Dissent?

Three FIRs against Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi for alleged assault on police during SIR protests mark a sharp escalation in criminalization of op...

Jantar Mantar Shutdown: Democracy's Designated Silence

Delhi Police denies permission for October 10 CJP protest citing crowd risk, deploying 23,000 central forces, showing how Jantar Mantar shifted from p...

Vote Chori vs Gyanesh Kumar: Rahul's Resistance Gamble

Rahul Gandhi's second detention in two days over alleged vote theft has shifted the INDIA bloc's battle from Parliament to the pavement, making CEC re...

Jantar Mantar: The New Forbidden Zone

Delhi Police is turning Jantar Mantar from a protest square into a surveillance zone ahead of October 10 agitation, raising urgent questions about dis...

Syllabus of Silence

NCERT's new Class IX textbook asks big questions but avoids answers. The real distortion is not error, but erasure - compressing 13th-17th centuries i...