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Everyone who tweets like this should be made to set out the specific points they find “repugnant,” with reasons. The institutional critiques he makes were all being made in the 1940s & 50s, including in the literal Constituent Assembly. Your historical amnesia is not his fault.
The issue is neither your pen name nor your right to challenge Sharjeel Imam’s views. I agree that his statements in that interview are deeply anti constitutional, anti secular and highly illiberal.
But the central issue is different- Do repugnant views justify prolonged incarceration and a delayed trial?
Anti constitution and anti secular views are espoused by countless people cutting across the political spectrum. Yet the Constitution guarantees fundamental rights even to those who reject its values. That is precisely the strength of our constitutional democracy.
You are perfectly entitled to challenge Sharjeel’s ideology and much of it deserves to be criticised. But ideological disagreement cannot become a justification for indefinite incarceration. Unlawful acts should be prosecuted but due process and personal liberty cannot be made conditional on the acceptability of someone’s political beliefs.
The real test of constitutionalism is defending the rights of those whose views we find most objectionable. Otherwise our commitment is not to the Constitution but merely to our own ideological preferences.
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There’s Sally Rooney, and then there’s prominent Indian writers who couldn’t bring themselves to abstain from going to *one* literary festival headlined by Radio Rwanda… 😬
This is fucking nuts. What a model of conduct for authors theguardian.com/uk-news/2026…
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Apt time to share this econ working paper, which costed the author his job, finding electoral manipulation in closely contested constituencies in 2019 general elections in India.
The mechanism resembles what’s unfolding now on massive scale, as Vote Chori”
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…
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Message from the Chief Electoral Officer, Delhi
Regarding Special Intensive Revision (SIR) 2026
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If any person has any grievance, please feel free to contact any of the 14,947 BLOs, 902 AEROs, 70 EROs, 13 DEOs or the CEO.
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When the train reached Itarsi station around 6 pm, a large group of Madhya Pradesh police officials entered the coach and “manhandled, dragged and forced the students out of the train”, a student leader alleged.
“We suspect one of us has got a minor fracture during the scuffle but she is not being allowed to get an X-ray.”
scroll.in/article/1096283/dr…
Purva̅i retweeted
Over dozens of students onboard Goa Express and on their way to participate in protests in Delhi were detained by the local police in Itarsi, Madhya Pradesh.
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So if you’re wondering why protesting needs permission, it’s because we have an executive-centric constitution that has been interpreted by a historically executive-centred court, to uphold colonial executive-centric laws as constitutionally compliant.
Purva̅i retweeted
During the framing of the Const, Somnath Lahiri explicitly said that the fundamental rights chapter was written from the perspective of a police constable. In the 1980s, KG Kannabiran was writing that the Sup Ct treats the restrictions as “fundamental” instead of the rights.
Purva̅i retweeted
One important thing to understand is that the legal architecture around the right to protest in India remains colonial in its design, and the Supreme Court has been enforcing this colonial architecture since 1960. The Constitution did nothing to change this.
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This month's @thecaravanindia cover is on the historic worker strikes that swept through central and northern India from February to June this year--and it received the most scant mainstream media attention. @ZaenAlkazi has this very important story caravanmagazine.in/labour/wo…
Purva̅i retweeted
Sad news.
Today, we lost one of the greatest thinkers of political economy. Rest in peace Anwar Shaikh.
Thank you!
This has been very helpful for those who TA (me) for SA History courses spanning from the “priest king” to modi
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Purva̅i retweeted
How does the BJP win an Assembly seat that has 70% Muslim voters?
A @scroll_in ground report from Murshidabad
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The Election Commission of India is under fire like never before.
The SIR has struck 13 crore names off draft rolls, putting the EC at the centre of intense public debate over its role in deciding who gets to vote — and who doesn’t.
HOWEVER, what nobody knew: through that same period, some of the sharpest questions were being asked from inside.
Out today, after months of work. Our #ExpressInvestigation 🧵
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Over 30 academics, journalists, scholars, writers, artists and concerned citizens have called for a Nagaland government inquiry into the alleged humiliation and intimidation of professors Dolly Kikon and Sanjay Barbora at Nagaland House in New Delhi on September 15. nenow.in/north-east-news/nag…
If you were Menocchio, the worms would have been God and the angels, but you are “pure veg” what goes in this cosmos - (/)god knows
#YogaBar How is this acceptable?
I bought a Yoga Bar Protein Bar for my mother. She ate some of it before we found worms inside.
The product was not expired, and my mother is a pure vegetarian. This is so disturbing.
Details in the comments.
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