Sheetal Joon🌻

27 Lakh Voters were deleted in West Bengal. These were not 'dead people' or 'bangladeshis'. These were real people who had already appealed to get their votes restored. The Supreme court could’ve delayed the West Bengal elections until the tribunals finished hearing the appeals of these voters. But they didn’t. Only around 1607 voters were restored in time by phase 2 of these elections. Almost every appeal that was heard turned out to be a wrongful deletion. In any functional democracy, this would not count as a free and fair election where a large section of voters have lost their voting rights. I'm not saying that TMC would've won for sure if they were added back, maybe BJP would still win, but the question is about the fairness of these elections. Free and fair elections are a spectrum. Ever since Delhi-Maharashtra-Bihar-Bengal, this needle has moved more and more towards being unfair. Each time somehow the opposition parties participate as usual in the electoral process thinking that they can still pull of a win despite the compromised EC, ED, CBI etc. and each time they have been proven wrong after 2024 Lok Sabha. The question is, at what point will they feel that the level of unfairness is so unfair that elections should be boycotted? I personally feel TMC should have refused to participate in these elections until all those 27 lakh appeals were finished being heard.

Witnessing the fall of Mamata, Pinarayi, and Stalin, easily three of the strongest anti-BJP voices in India, should make all of us very, very concerned. The impending doom of saffron fascism looms over all of us. Scary times ahead.

I love how people assume that the harassment of women stopped at sexual, forgetting how much people treat them like objects rather than human.

This is how the real saffronisation looks — really dark.

NO!

Indian Express is the Chandrachud of newspapers.

Abbas Araghchi

in a world full of fake performative AI slop girlbosses we have HER

He had twelve years to lift India. He squandered that time lying to Indians, destroying institutions, erecting a personality cult, enriching his cronies, and deploying hate to divide and subdivide Indians. May today’s defeat be the beginning of his swift political end.

“The legal system, the financial system, they’re all based on winner-take-all.” “That’s not a good society. That’s not good…” What do you call that? Socialism? “I call it common sense.” — George Lucas x.com/Todd_Spence/st…

This is Tehran, Iran — no Visa cards, their own banking system, clean streets, no beggars, no robbers, and self-reliant in everything from medicine to industry. Every 3rd person owns a car. A nation free, dignified, and 200 years ahead in living standards.🔥❤️

India is a cheap country to survive, but an expensive country to live. This is what's causing so much cognitive dissonance. Food and survival is cheap, but education, healthcare, rents are all expensive and govt services aren't keeping up.

So many graduates in quotes expressing outrage: ‘companies are hiring engineering grads at 27k a month while these people want 20k’ Somehow the problem isn't that graduates are being underpaid too. Somehow this isn't a moment of solidarity with other workers.

Asking for a salary hike in New India is Anti National and can get you arrested and labeled a Pakistani terrorist

Iran is home to one of the richest cinematic traditions in the world, built on empathy, resistance, and human connection.jacobin.com/2026/04/iran-c…

a legacy in every note. the queen of versatility, asha bhosle.

She's a princess, a cry baby, and a gangster. It's a 3-for-1 special. She's soft enough to feel everything, yet tough enough to survive anything. She cries to sad songs, then bosses up like nothing happened. She's got a heart like gold and boundaries like a bodyguard.