Law The RTI lobby is wrong about privacy
THE SUPREME COURT will hear the challenges to Section 44(3) of the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act again on 17 November. On 27 October,...
Sanhita Pandey
Sanhita Pandey is an advocate with command over public law and a political enthusiast tracking India’s political economy, national security and policy evolution.
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Politics An Indian Express op-ed calls the protests peaceful. The record says otherwise.
On 14 October 2026, The Indian Express published an opinion piece by Faizan Mustafa and Ayan Aditya Giri, “When the state paints dissent as disorder”...
Politics The case against the SIR starts from its conclusion
ON 5 OCTOBER 2026, the Supreme Court declined to suspend the Chief Election Commissioner on the strength of a newspaper report. The same day, it...
Education Read it before you burn it
India’s student Left wants to roll back the country’s biggest education reform in a generation. Its case does not survive contact with the document.
Media The Hindu’s editorial on UN CERD’s report on India does not survive the evidence
On 30 August 2026, The Hindu, referred to by millions of UPSC aspirants, published an editorial titled ‘State of exception: On India, the UN Committee...
Economy UPI went digital. Now cash goes plastic.
If you’d told someone five years ago that India, the country running the world’s largest real-time digital payments system, would actually spend 2026 talking seriously...
Politics How Mamata defeated herself
Mamata Banerjee has lost the mandate. Mamata is no longer the Chief Minister of West Bengal. Mamata, who stormed into power in West Bengal in...
