The party envisions a country where power is distributed more equitably among social groups than today, and the domination of the upper castes reduced in India’s life
29 April,2024 06:52 AM IST | Mumbai | Ajaz Ashraf
Concerns about opacity, discrepancies in polling data that tend to go unexplained and vulnerability of machines to manipulation give us reason to be suspicious about the existing electronic voting system
22 April,2024 06:52 AM IST | Mumbai | Ajaz Ashraf
Only the wealthy can dream of contesting elections, an exercise that can be viewed as a means to control the masses and legitimise State policies promoting the interests of big businesses
15 April,2024 06:42 AM IST | Mumbai | Ajaz Ashraf
Jagdeep Singh Chhokar, 80, has been working tirelessly for 25 years to make Indian politics transparent. His patience bore fruit recently with the striking down of the electoral bond scheme
08 April,2024 06:52 AM IST | Mumbai | Ajaz Ashraf
Such a scenario, unlikely as it would seem, would pose an existential threat to the PM. To avoid any such surprises, he is producing nightmares for the Opposition in the run-up to the Lok Sabha poll
01 April,2024 06:52 AM IST | Mumbai | Ajaz Ashraf
Data disclosure reinforces suspicion that State coercion fuelled donations from businesses in what is arguably the biggest scam in the history of independent India
18 March,2024 06:52 AM IST | Mumbai | Ajaz Ashraf
The roots of the farmer movement lie in the Sikh cultural tradition, where acting politically and justly, even in the face of certain death, is an aspect of religious practice
11 March,2024 06:49 AM IST | Mumbai | Ajaz Ashraf
The answer: No. But the deep suspicion about electronic voting can be quelled by only allowing voters to personally drop VVPAT slips into a box and counting 100 per cent of them in each constituency
04 March,2024 04:03 AM IST | Mumbai | Ajaz Ashraf
Public sector is shrinking rapidly, and the upper-caste leadership of companies that aren’t State-controlled is disinclined to voluntarily undertake affirmative action. I.N.D.I.A must take up this issue
26 February,2024 06:52 AM IST | Mumbai | Ajaz Ashraf
Subtle and profound, author Vivek Shanbhag’s book explores, through fiction, the meaning that the idea of revolution holds for those whose faith in India’s democracy has been eroded
19 February,2024 06:49 AM IST | Mumbai | Ajaz AshrafADVERTISEMENT
