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Interviewer: You're an IIT engineer working in tech. Why join civil services? Kajal Meena, RAS (2024 batch), state topper (ST): Because a civil servant has authority to bring positive change in people’s lives. Yesterday she was arrested by the ACB for accepting a ₹60k bribe.

A blatant overreach that mocks the very principles of justice - this is exactly what Emergency looks like, except that this time round the unelected have declared it. On this, one of the darkest of days in the history of Indian Judiciary, I stand with Michel Danino. Always will.

Aaj ka gyan: It's much easier to have a strong opinion if you don't know all the facts. Knowledge makes you humble and inclusive.

Consistently India’s most valuable player. Ice in the veins, surgical precision in the hand. Match after match, always works, almost no bad days. Hats off, Jasprit Bumrah! A bowling superstar in a country obsessed with batting.

If a dalit neighbour has a personal dispute with you, all it takes is a complaint alleging that you used a caste-based slur to fix you. There is no requirement for a preliminary inquiry. The police can register the case and arrest you immediately, after which you are produced before a court and only then allowed to apply for bail. Even if there is no evidence and the case eventually collapses, the damage is already done. You may be arrested from your home, face social stigma, cause severe trauma to your family, risk job loss, spend days in custody, pay legal fees, and deal with endless procedural hardships, sometimes even bail becomes uncertain, depending on the court’s discretion (read bribe). In such situations, acquittal does not undo the punishment. The punishment lies in the process itself. A man in UP stayed more than two decades in jail for a false compliant. This is the power the Atrocities Act carries in its present form. A law that offers no effective safeguards against misuse is an atrocity itself against the innocent. This is not an ideological argument, it is simple logic. Yet no one is willing to address it openly, because in a democracy, questioning such laws is politically dangerous. And it could have ended there. But now, a miniature version of the same approach has entered universities through the UGC equity regulations, extending the same logic into academic spaces.