While hundreds of millions have escaped multidimensional poverty in the last decade and a half, the fraction of Indians at risk of slipping back has barely budged from 17%. Neither has the percentage of undernourished Indians improved much👇🏽theindiaforum.in/economy/povert… The India Forum

Mughals, meat...come elections and the sakha crawls right out of the carefully crafted veneer of development man

Has India Today removed the original story reporting Modi's meat attack on the opposition? Most outrage on twitter I see are in reaction to that story but it's nowhere to be found. Please post if you see it
freepressjournal.in/india/how-does…

Terrific reportage on how electoral bonds were basically used as an institutionalised channel for cut money reporters-collective.in/trc/within-48-…

Lovely ad indeed, but where's the boycott Eicher Tractor hashtag? Are we becoming sane again?

Because what could be a better way to tell the world that India is an economic miracle than by sending Indians as indentured labour to conflict zones thehindu.com/news/national/…

Because I never explained otherwise, my son spent a good stretch of time in his childhood thinking that a vice principal at a school was there in case the principal was assassinated.

What passes for political debate in New India. Don't know what's more ridiculous though, the BJP's outrage at Tejashwi eating fish during Navratri, or Tejashwi's 'defence' that it was a day before Navratri. oof such exciting political cut and thrust ndtv.com/india-news/tej…

The central contradiction over a nationwide secular front against BJP is most evident in #WestBengal .
writes Debasish Roy Chowdhury Debashis Roy Chowdhury

frontline.thehindu.com/politics/lok-s…

Considering the whatsapp messages since Sensex hit 75k, I think someone should do a study on the correlation between patriotism and stock market performance. I didn't even know there was any

Today marks 4 years of unjust, arbitrary, arrest & contd incarceration of young, brave, brilliant GULFISHA FATIMA, under the draconian UAPA, for her sincere engagement in the equal citizenship movement The Wire has pub a set of her poems, paintings & letters frm jail.…

Define ‘Majoritarian Privilege’:

1.4b/140 crore.
BJP got 37% of votes cast, or support of 37% of the people who actually voted. Since 33% didn't, that's about 20% of all voters. So just a fifth of the voters supported BJP. And electorate is not the same as population, so support as % of population is even lower

Straight talking by PTR on the pathetic EC, but with all these big questions about the election process, the opposition could have put its foot down and demanded a fix before agreeing to take part in the elections. Once it agreed to participate, it's pointless to whine

Why should I suffer alone

#NoVoteToModi

.Akhilesh Yadav .Tejashwi Yadav .Yasar Shah .Rashtriya Janata Dal

Can this video reach every WhatsApp enabled mobile in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar?

The indomitable Miriam Margolyes OBE has a message in support of the Jewish Council! She calls for all of us Jews to “shout, beg, scream for a ceasefire”

Another day, another low thenewsminute.com/karnataka/bjp-…

Never understood why it's so difficult to have elections in winter. But then, when it comes to elections, we don't care for Covid even, what's a heatwave?

Model of conduct is in urgent need of a pran pratishtha