India deserves better than M-O-D-I: Misinformation, Opacity, Distractions, Incompetence https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUoA4kFU3Cg The government’s constant drive for headline management, its pursuit of hype, its industrial-scale disinformation campaigns carried forward by its media and social media armies, and its wall-to-wall projection of Modi as a superhero, are obsessive, fantastical, and delusional', argues TMC MP in Rajya Sabha Sagarika Ghose.

Fifty years after Indira Gandhi imposed the Emergency, history is turning a harsher gaze not just on her authoritarian turn but on Jayaprakash Narayan’s fateful alliance with Sangh. Legitimised by JP’s misjudgment, the RSS has wrecked India’s democracy, institutions and political culture.

https://thewire.in/politics/the-emergencys-true-legacy-how-jps-naivety-empowered-the-rss 

Sharada Prasad concluded his letter to Natwar Singh with a penetrating observation: “.. the entire operation was necessary to save our political structure. When we  speak of our political structure or aims, the leftists speak only of socialism, the Anglo-US-European liberals only of pluralistic democracy, neither group gives much importance to secularism. Secularism is the base of Indian democracy. The cardinal mistake of JP and company was to hand over the controls to RSS and no man in his senses can ever say that an RSS-led opposition front can preserve a system based upon religious tolerance and equality.”

History has already dealt a rough hand to Indira Gandhi for embarking on a dangerous road 50 years ago; what she did during those dark days could be rolled back by the masses. History will deal an equally rough, if not  rougher, hand to Jayaprakash Narayan for rehabilitating the RSS as a normal political force. Fifty years later, Indira Gandhi’s excesses pale in comparison to JP’s cardinal sin. The RSS is the only winner of that battle five decades ago.

Harish Khare

25/06/2025

 The Supreme Court has said that the state cannot object to two consenting adults living together just because they belong to different religions. https://thewire.in/law/state-cant-object-to-two-consenting-adults-from-different-religions-living-together-supreme-court 

The apex court recently made this assertion while granting bail to a Muslim man who had spent nearly six months in jail for marrying a Hindu woman.

While the Uttarakhand high court had denied bail to the man in February this year, a bench of Justices B.V. Nagarathna and Satish Chandra Sharma recently passed the order, allowing the appeal of the man, reported Hindustan Times.

11/06/2025