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Today, at around 7:15 am, an eight-member team of the Maharashtra police once again raided the Bagaicha campus in Namkum near Ranchi, the residence of 83-year old Stan Swamy, a well-known activist of Jharkhand. The police searched Stan Swamy’s belongings for about 3.5 hours. It took Stan Swamy’s hard disk and internet modem and forced him to give his email and Facebook passwords. Thereafter, they changed the passwords and seized these accounts. The Maharashtra police had raided Stan Swamy’s residence last year as well on 28 August 2018 as well.

what we just saw last month was the destruction of the Vidyasagar statue in Bengal. If that indicates anything, we need to think about what is in store for India. This time it was to symbolize the rise and the mainstreaming of the Right and its doctrine of violence.

Repeated threats pose great risk and danger to Dr. Puniyani, who has been a strong secular voice and crusader for communal harmony. This is nothing but an attempt to silence his voice and curb his emphatic efforts towards spreading the message of peace and harmony.

People in high public office, state officials and even top courts seem to be ignoring Article 51A of India’s constitution implores citizens to "develop scientific temper ..." see reports from Karnataka and Tamil Nadu in June 2019

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.