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Photo of Jamui teen who was harassed posted from Bihar chief minister’s account, staffer booked (opens the original)
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The Bihar Police on Friday registered a first information report against a staffer at the chief minister’s office for posting the photos of a minor girl who was molested by a group of men in Jamui district last week, on Chief Minister Samrat Choudhary’s official account, The Hindu reported. The girl and her family had met Choudhary at his official residence in Patna on Thursday. A post about the meeting had been put up on Chaudhary’s account on social media platform X, along with an unblurred ph
EC says old Form 6 will be used in non-SIR period, no mandatory hearings (opens the original)
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The Election Commission on Saturday said that the old version of Form 6, used to register new voters, will be used in periods when the special intensive revision of electoral rolls is not underway. The poll panel also said that persons who have been served a notice as part of the SIR for being “unmapped” or in connection with “logical discrepancies” do not need to mandatorily attend a hearing before the electoral registration officer. The booth-level officers will collect documents from their ho
Ramachandra Guha’s new book: Gandhi’s nonviolence prepared Indians to use their freedom responsibly (opens the original)
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In the past, the argument that Gandhi’s reliance on non-violence delayed the country’s freedom from British rule was put forward most insistently by Marxists, themselves enchanted with the examples of Lenin and Mao. More recently, the ideas that non-violence was a bogus and ineffective strategy has become widespread among Indians who are not remotely attached to Marxism. Those who argue that the struggle against British rule should have relied largely or exclusively on violence make two claims –
Ramachandra Guha: For 120 years, Indian students have fought to change politics and public life (opens the original)
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In early July, as the students’ protests in Jantar Mantar were taking shape, the Trinamool Congress MP, Mahua Moitra, was one of the first politicians to show up in person and offer solidarity. Three weeks later, when the Union education minister, Dharmendra Pradhan, resigned, Moitra thanked the younger generation “for saving Indian democracy” by bringing “this fascist, arrogant government to its knees”. This, as she pointed out, was something the Opposition parties had not been able to do in th
Ramachandra Guha: Historian Sumit Sarkar took his scholarship beyond the confines of the academy (opens the original)
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In a late essay reflecting on his intellectual journey over the decades, Sumit Sarkar remarked: “So far, we Indian historians have written the histories that we wanted to write, following no agenda but our own. That seems to be a fast-vanishing luxury.” In a long and very productive life, Sarkar – who was born in Calcutta in 1939 and died in Delhi earlier this month – had to confront three historical agendas imposed by others. The first was a dogmatic Marxism which viewed the past through a narr
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