Praskanva Sinharay

Asst. Professor, @JindalGLS @JindalGlobalUNI | PhD @CSSSCal | Views personal.

[banojyotsna ... @banojyotsna]

Umar Khalid's interview in The Guardian
https://t.co/ZBaS7Y3lhL

[Mukta Naik @MuktaNaik]

In the Sunday papers today, writing about the citizenship of internal migrants and why it is a concern for India’s growth story.
Link in comments
Thanks @timesofindia for the opportunity!

[Sushant Singh @SushantSin]

NCERT is now praising Manusmriti in Class IX books. And of course they won't have a word on what Dr Ambedkar said about it, and what other scholars have researched and found out about it.

[Sarayu Pani @sarayupani]

Only vibes are proof of citizenship

[Shivani Kapoor @shii_vani]

CSDS invites applications for ‘Researching the Contemporary' - a summer school for doctoral researchers on the theme of entanglements - social, material, atmospheric, sensuous and mediatized. Please consider applying & do circulate.

For details: https://t.co/yFcsoAn4Pi.

[Praskanva Sinharay @psr_here]

What are the implications of the ongoing crisis of the TMC for Bengal politics and Indian democracy at large? My take in the @IndianExpress

https://t.co/S6zTwQAvX9

[Sagar @Sagar_reporter]

A rare article that frames SIR into a political process wherein the state abandons their citizens by rule.
The press didn't report on exclusion of Dalits from NRC in Assam and now neither from SIR. The article deals with it too.

https://t.co/9owv3GZaB2

[Anjali Bhardwaj @AnjaliB_]

Supreme Court’s stamp of approval on the SIR is deeply disappointing & extremely dangerous for our democracy. The SIR has been marked by arbitrariness & lack of transparency - till date the ECI has not disclosed the basis on which the SIR was undertaken or how the decision, that has disenfranchised millions of citizens, was taken. Dark day for the judiciary and for our republic.

[Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88]

2. Programming Democracy - II: SIR in West Bengal — https://t.co/zjNbWriahU

[Manimugdha Sharma @quizzicalguy]

So, @AnantGuptaAG was on my show this morning to talk about his fascinating reports on the West Bengal elections and the impact of SIR. Some of his findings have been shocking, to say the least.

[P. Sainath @PSainath_org]

Even by the standards of a country ranking 157 of 180 nations in the World Press Freedom Index, the reaction of the authorities to the ‘Cockroach Janata Party’ is beyond extraordinary. The public response to that imaginative prank should have signalled to them a deep discontent, even distress, among young people. Instead, as The Indian Express reported, it was framed as jeopardising the country’s ‘national security’ and ‘posing a threat to the sovereignty of India.’ Decades ago, the Malaysian lawyer and poet Cecil Rajendra wrote this brilliant poem that captures the idiocy of it better than any pompous editorialising could (not that our ‘mainstream’ media would dare do even that much).

[Sushant Singh @SushantSin]

When a respected former election commissioner like @AshokLavasa writes this, all well-meaning Indians still trying to treat Bengal results as a data exercise should recognise that this is now an existential question about Indian democracy itself.

[Sushant Singh @SushantSin]

Brazen and open bigotry that of course, India's constitutional courts can neither see nor register

[Anant Gupta @AnantGuptaAG]

Saying this again: The SIR was a political event in West Bengal. The disenfranchisement of voters (27 or 34 lakh) was its consequence.

If you choose to study the impact of only the latter, you're missing the point.

https://t.co/0U2ukHXpjy

[Roshan Kishore @Roshanjnu]

When Suvendu Adhikari takes oath at its 1st BJP CM today, WB will see the beginning of one of the most important chapters of its history.
It is foolish to deny history when it changes, but hubris to think of events, no matter how big, as the end of history.
cc @NishantTISS

[Press Trust of India @PTI_News]

VIDEO | Delhi: CPI leader D Raja says, "Who is buying gold? Whom is the Prime Minister advising? Let him say who is buying gold. He is advising people not to buy gold, but people do not even have enough money to eat. They do not have money in their hands, so how can they buy gold? What is the Prime Minister saying? And what does ‘work from home’ mean?"

(Full video available on https://t.co/bIyFWTfmBd)

[Praskanva Sinharay @psr_here]

On Bengal elections and the state's political future. My take in the @IndianExpress

https://t.co/L29PaBH0rn

[Mukul Kesavan @mukulkesavan]

There is a form of liberal punditry about the BJP which goes “you have to hand it to them…” You don’t. When you tip your hat to a poisonous majoritarianism, you amplify its aura. When you give the devil his due, you join his baggage train.

[Manoj Kumar Jha @manojkjhadu]

How Russian Revolution Inspired Undivided India’s Literary, Political Figures https://t.co/2oCwuucUtV

[Yamini Aiyar @AiyarYamini]

The SIR must be recognised for what it is, a tool through which the seeds of deep societal exclusion are being sown using routine bureaucratic practices. Beyond electoral math, this is its true danger. My oped in the Telegraph today