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Aakar Patel | Is Protest Only Means Left To Us To Take Back Democracy?

Aakar Patel | Is Protest Only Means Left To Us To Take Back Democracy?

Voting is considered to be the same thing as democracy, as if democracy vanishes between elections. For decades, the...

19 Oct 2026 10:45 PM IST

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman addresses a press conference after the 53rd GST Council Meeting, in New Delhi, Saturday, June 22, 2024. (PTI Photo/Kamal Singh)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Gen Z Needs To Regroup, Pick Issues That...

The Supreme Court can only judge the issues concerning SIR based on specific instances. There need not be many examples....

19 Oct 2026 10:14 PM IST

AA Edit | Supreme Court Must Rule Firmly On SIR, EC & CEC

AA Edit | Supreme Court Must Rule Firmly On SIR, EC & CEC

The SIR process was fundamentally flawed as it followed algorithms that seem to have been slanted in certain ways to...

2 Oct 2026 8:41 PM IST

AA Edit | CEC-SIR Issues Could Be A Rallying Point For Opposition

AA Edit | CEC-SIR Issues Could Be A Rallying Point For Opposition

Attempts are also on to rope in the AAP, the estranged partner of the INDIA bloc, into the platform. It may be true that...

28 Sept 2026 10:20 PM IST

Aakar Patel | If It Ain’t Broke, Break It: How We Ruined India We Built Over Decades

Aakar Patel | If It Ain’t Broke, Break It: How We Ruined India We...

In 2016, crony capitalism accounted for three per cent of India’s GDP. In 2023, the last year in which this was...

28 Sept 2026 10:01 PM IST

AA Edit | Trust Eroded, EC Needs A Complete Overhaul

AA Edit | Trust Eroded, EC Needs A Complete Overhaul

Reports have said the two other commissioners in the panel questioned the decision of the CEC 14 times in 10 months; and...

25 Sept 2026 7:13 AM IST

AA Edit | Voters Cannot Be Termed Discrepancies, EC Must Act

AA Edit | Voters Cannot Be Termed Discrepancies, EC Must Act

The EC has invented a new tool called ‘discrepancies’ (it was ‘logical discrepancies’ in West Bengal) to deny people...

22 Sept 2026 12:08 AM IST

AA Edit | How Regional Parties Are Being Wiped Out

AA Edit | How Regional Parties Are Being Wiped Out

The events that are unfolding ahead of the October 6 byelections to the West Bengal Assembly are disturbing. The split...

21 Sept 2026 12:28 AM IST

AA Edit | EC’s Six-crore Purge A Self-goal On SIR?

AA Edit | EC’s Six-crore Purge A Self-goal On SIR?

It is estimated that six crores of the 36 crore names in the electoral rolls in 16 states and three Union territories...

2 Sept 2026 12:03 AM IST

Anita Katyal | BJP Sends Men To Monitor The SIR; Cong Beaten, First By CJP, Then AAP

Anita Katyal | BJP Sends Men To Monitor The SIR; Cong Beaten, First By...

Take the case of the Neet exam paper leak which placed education minister Dharmendra Pradhan in the firing line. The...

18 July 2026 11:37 PM IST

AA Edit | Top Court’s Intervention On Citizenship Issue Welcome

AA Edit | Top Court’s Intervention On Citizenship Issue Welcome

The apex court made it very clear it recognised the legitimate right of the state in ensuring that no person who is...

15 July 2026 2:19 AM IST

Pavan K. Varma | Hold Census, Try Forge A Delimitation Consensus

Pavan K. Varma | Hold Census, Try Forge A Delimitation Consensus

The last major delimitation exercise was based on the 2001 Census, although the number of seats in the Lok Sabha...

20 Jun 2026 11:51 PM IST