The 2019 general (Parliamentary) election in India seems to be the most expensive election ever, anywhere. The estimates [of $8.65 billion] in this report by Centre for Media Studies (CMS) are based on traceable expenses. There is need to seriously deliberate this poll expenditure phenomena.
South Asia Citizens Web
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India: An Independent Assesment of 2019 National (Parliamentary) Election Expenditure - CMS Report
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Weaponising Paperwork: Rohingya Belonging and Statelessness | Dina M Siddiqi
by , 5 June 2019How does an ethnic minority, in possession of most citizenship rights up until quite recently, become stateless over time and, that too, primarily through legal measures? The denationalisation of the Rohingya, I suggest, is not a peculiarly Burmese problem, but an extreme version of a more general predicament of (postcolonial) nation states in the present.
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India: Public statement by People’s Alliance for Democracy and Secularism on the suicide of Dr Payal Tadvi in a Mumbai hospital
4 June 2019PADS calls upon the people of India to seriously question why so many of them are haters and abusers of people from deprived backgrounds. Why do people who abuse and commit hate crimes think they can get away with it? It is evident that the anti-caste movements have only partially succeeded in democratising India.
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We stand in solidarity with the Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM) - Statement by Feminist Groups across Pakistan
3 June 2019statement by Girls at Dhabas, The Feminist Collective, Women Democratic Front, Women’s Action Forum, Women’s Collective
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No Confidence in Modi’s Government: Video recording of Prashant Bhushan’s intervention at the Oxford Union | May 21, 2019
2 June 2019The Motion: This House Has No Confidence in Modi’s Government, the full debate is also available here
