Siddharth

'You Didn't Ban Diwali Crackers, But Stopped Our Work': Workers Pay For Delhi's Anti-Pollution Drive m.thewire.in/article/rights/… via @thewire_In

Socialism is as American as Apple Pie, writes Manoj Joshi m.thewire.in/article/world/s… via @thewire_In

If you can’t win an election ‘Gyanesh style’ — by tinkering with the rolls and deleting and adding names — or the ‘Modi style’ of using Hindu-Muslim rhetoric or the ‘Amit Shah style’ of using threats and allurement to induce defections, there is now the ‘Fadnavis method of vote chori’. This method has just been seen in the BJP’s capture of the Gokul Milk Union, Maharashtra’s milk producers’ cooperative. In elections last month, the Congress-led alliance won 13 seats to the BJP-led alliance’s 12. So what Fadnavis did was pass an ordinance giving government appointees 5 seats and use this managed ‘majority’ to give the BJP side a ‘victory’. m.thewire.in/article/politic… via @thewire_In

Hindutva Attack, Six Students Expelled, Campus Shut: What's Happening at Kolkata's SRFTI? @ankit_raj12 reports m.thewire.in/article/educati… via @thewire_In

Mohenjo-daro’s Dancing Girl: Public Heritage Behind Closed Doors The reported removal of a 4,500-year-old masterpiece from India’s National Museum raises unsettling questions about public access, cultural stewardship and the modern impulse to control an ancient body, writes @navinajafa m.thewire.in/article/history…

Pannun s civil lawsuit was filed in September 2024 and names the Government of India, NSA Ajit Doval, former RAW Chief Samant Goel, former RAW officer ‘Vikram’ Yadav, Nikhil Gupta and 50 unnamed defendants. Pannun has alleged that the defendants conspired to assassinate him at his home in New York. The case is separate from the criminal prosecution of Gupta, who was indicted by US prosecutors for allegedly attempting to hire a hitman to kill Pannun on the instructions of a former officer of India’s external intelligence agency RAW. A subsequent indictment unsealed in October 2024 named former RAW operative Vikash Yadav as the alleged mastermind of the plot. m.thewire.in/article/diploma… via @thewire_In

Having backed the scheme so enthusiastically and brushed aside concerns that were hardly difficult to foresee, the military leadership's volte-face raises rather troubling questions about the military’s overall professional independence and operational judgement, writes Rahul Bedi m.thewire.in/article/securit… via @thewire_In

BJP ‘Vote Chori’ at Milk Union Triggers Huge Protest; Modi Now Wants Security Forces to Fight ‘Dimagi Naxals’; Police Use of Israeli Phone-Cloning Tool Raises Questions open.substack.com/pub/theind…

US Midterm Election Results: Here's Why the Popular Political Earthquake Must Continue With this election, the forces for change are powerful and the potential is huge. But has ‘No Kings’ been incorporated into the Democratic political-electoral machine? Will it survive this election? Let’s see, writes @USEmpire thewire.in/world/us-midterm-…

Headline says it all. 9 in 10 Voters the Election Commission Wants Removed From Bengal’s Rolls Have Muslim Names @chhuti_is reports m.thewire.in/article/governm… via @thewire_In

I hope the judges of the Supreme Court—who allowed the bursting of so-called ‘Green firecrackers’—and the Union Home Minister @AmitShah—who is responsible for enforcing the law of the land in the National Capital— had a great Diwali.