Why the army needs to make its stand clear on AFSPA
Author’s Note: This Note was sent to Army HQ in 2014, but (predictably) it produced neither response, nor action of any sort.
Election Reform
If there is a sincere intent to implement much needed reforms, the time to do it is now, before the public loses faith in elections and democracy completely.
And so, here is a small attempt to bring the question of electoral reforms back to centre stage.
Facebook: its implicit support for divisive politics
The Reporter’s Collective (TRC) has conducted an investigation, in coordination with Ad Watch, an independent researcher, into some distasteful and certainly surprising revelations into the way that commercial social media platform Facebook (which recently renamed itself Meta), that also owns popular SM platforms Instagram and WhatsApp, has been acting with regard to the Indian electoral scenario.
Kashmir: If truth be told
The true story of what happened and why it happened (in 1989-90) cannot be grasped by pulling out some pages from the diary and de-contextualising them, much worse by pitting up one community against another.