Topic: Democracy

Winning elections proves popularity; it does not prove legality, justice, or constitutional fidelity.

The real test of democracy is not how the State treats those who support it. The real test is how it treats those who stand on the other side of the barricade.

Fears that foreign interference in elections can override the democratic processes and the true choice of the people are causing concern.

The issue is directly tied to the core questions of electoral credibility and accountability, with lakhs of genuine voters removed from the rolls.

When the State begins to suggest that citizens are dangerous because of their opinions, we move into the policing of thought, a profoundly different proposition in a constitutional democracy.

The deeper danger is that the information gathered about us can be used to anticipate, manipulate and ultimately shape our behaviour.

In these exceptionally difficult times, India needs greater unity and caution, with all sides exploring ways of working together for common interests.

Debt and overwhelming billionaire wealth create a single feedback loop, draining public resources and eroding democracy, a political choice, not economic destiny.

Excessive concentration of wealth and corporate power distorts democratic decision-making and weakens the equal enjoyment of people’s rights.

Why Balochistan, Pakistan-administered Kashmir, and the imprisonment of Imran Khan expose the crisis of the Pakistani state.

When citizens, especially those with the least institutional power, insist on these rights, they perform an essential democratic function.

When the executive branch seeks to subvert, bypass, or openly challenge judicial mandates, it strikes at the very heart of the rule of law.

What is actually at stake is our entire democratic system, as the journey toward an opposition-free India accelerates.

A republic remains healthy only when power understands that its legitimacy comes from law, not personality. When that understanding weakens, the pathology of power has already begun.

If you refuse the comfort of despair and the easy relief of hatred, you will look back from some future vantage point and see that this period, too, was a passage. Difficult, costly, and necessary.

When judicial language mirrors contempt, and we all Woke Up As Cockroaches.

Opposition parties prepare an unprecedented impeachment motion against CEC Gyanesh Kumar, citing voter roll deletions, partisan conduct, and the erosion of Election Commission independence.