Akshay Kulkarni
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The Maddy Paradox: Canadian Cows And The Great Indian Hypocrisy Factory | Countercurrents (opens the original)
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R. Madhavan is entitled to be vegetarian. He is entitled to consider cow slaughter morally unacceptable. He is entitled to have been disturbed as a teenage exchange student in Canada by living among people whose livelihood involved slaughtering cattle. Personal disgust is not a crime, and neither is faith. But the moment a private dietary reaction is dressed up as a civilizational revelation, the rest of us are entitled to ask whether the great actor has confused culture shock with constitutiona
Akriti Chaudhary Case: A Student, the NSA and the Anatomy of State Insecurity | Countercurrents (opens the original)
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The Allahabad High Court has delivered a judgment that ought to embarrass every public official who believes a file note is stronger than a citizen’s liberty. In the case of Akriti Chaudhary, the Court did something increasingly uncommon in the era of muscular governance; it asked the State to explain itself, then found that the explanation did not survive contact with chronology, evidence, procedure or the Constitution. A student stood with workers. The administration responded as though she ha
SIR: The Electoral Roll Exercise That Puts Citizenship on Trial | Countercurrents (opens the original)
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The SIR is officially meant to clean electoral rolls. Fair enough: the dead should not vote, duplicates should not multiply like WhatsApp forwards, and those who have moved should vote where they live. But democracy is not a kitchen shelf that can be dusted with a broom. When the dusting is hurried, the labels are unclear and the cleaner has been told to finish before tea, it is usually the good crockery, not the dust, that lands in the bin. Former ambassador Navdeep Suri captured the absurdity
India Diverted Sugar to Ethanol—Now Consumers Are Paying the Price | Countercurrents (opens the original)
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A quiet middle class panic has set in this August, and for once it is not about onions. The Ministry of Consumer Affairs confirmed that the all India retail price of sugar touched ₹55.70 per kilogram on August 20, up nearly sixteen percent in a single month from ₹48.18 on July 20. In Punjab, shoppers are paying closer to ₹65. In parts of Mumbai and Bhopal, the number hovers between ₹58 and ₹63. Wholesale rates in Kolhapur, the beating heart of Maharashtra’s sugar belt, have climbed to a record ₹
Narendra Dabholkar: The Man who refused to Believe in Miracles | Countercurrents (opens the original)
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Buried inside Article 51A of the Indian Constitution, among the eleven fundamental duties appended by the 42nd Amendment in 1976, sits a clause most citizens skim past without pausing: it shall be the duty of every citizen to develop the scientific temper, humanism, and the spirit of inquiry and reform. It arrived without ceremony, lodged in a section the courts cannot enforce and the classroom rarely dwells on, a duty carrying no penalty for its own neglect, the kind of sentence a republic draf
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