Politics Part IV: India for sale
Foreign money funded the critics; Parliament wrote the law
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Politics The nasbandi party
The Congress tried to shrink India by order. It failed.
Politics Part I: The vote that can say only one thing
* This is the first in a series on how India elects and governs itself. It looks at voting systems. Later parts take up the...
Politics He said ‘regime change’
PRASHANT BHUSHAN leaned towards the microphone at the Press Club of India on 15 October. Around him sat Abhijeet Dipke of the Cockroach Janta Party,...
Politics Sharjeel Imam calls nationalism idolatry, then builds a nation of his own
Sharjeel Imam, the left’s blue-eyed boy, though he says it has seldom loved him back, is in the news again. Not, this time, because a...
Politics Who gains when the Cockroach Janta Party stays off the ballot?
ON 12 OCTOBER the Delhi Police told the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) that Jantar Mantar was no longer a protest site, and named three other...
Politics Neha Bora and the franchise that never chose India
Bose challenged India’s communists in 1928. AISA still hasn’t answered.
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 Heads we win, tails it’s rigged
The protesters say India’s institutions are finished. The Supreme Court spent the week hearing them out.
Politics Starlink must meet India’s terms
Elon Musk has a gift for dressing up a sales pitch as charity. Starlink in India is his latest performance. On October 7, 2026, he...
