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Pure electoral rolls are bedrock of democracy: CEC

Addressing a press conference in Kochi after reviewing preparations for the upcoming Kerala Assembly elections, the CEC said maintaining the purity of electoral rolls is fundamental to a healthy democratic system.

History in Limbo

The uproar over a former army chief’s unpublished memoir is less about one book and more about how a democracy negotiates the uneasy space between national security, political accountability, and historical truth.

A Preferendum?

Politics in many countries is becoming a vaudeville, a soap opera. And we know, in Italian opera, everyone dies in the end. Democracy is already paying a price in the form of institutional inertia and institutional vandalism. The danger also comes from the emerging trend of what Italian writer Enzo Traverso calls ‘post-fascism‘. In loose terms, post-fascism refers to what fascism will look like in the 21st century