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Swadhyay skit on Janmasthami in US: Some uncomfortable questions

  One day after Janmashtami , to be exact, on September 5, during my stay in the US, I was taken to two separate celebrations in a town on the East Coast, ostensibly to keep me engaged among NRIs . While one of them had, apart from the ritualistic puja at a temple in the name of Radhe Krishna , located around a small pond on the outskirts, dance and song performances, it was the second one that interested me the most.
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People’s audit in Mangolpuri flags voter-roll discrepancies, seeks public scrutiny of Delhi SIR process

  A people-led audit of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Mangolpuri’s Y-Block has brought renewed scrutiny to the accuracy of Delhi’s draft electoral rolls, with citizen volunteers and civil-society groups reporting cases in which voters allegedly found themselves wrongly classified as absent, shifted, dead or duplicate, or missing altogether from the draft list.
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Riverfront or river death? SANDRP warns of ecosystem collapse

  The environmental advocacy group South Asia Network on Dams, Rivers and People (SANDRP) has published a hard-hitting analysis of Pune's ongoing River Front Development (RFD) project , framing its concerns around fundamental questions that challenge the project's technical, ecological, and legal foundations.
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Breathing poison? The 100/100 pollution score the CPCB doesn't want you to see

  A bombshell study by the Centre for Financial Accountability (CFA) has revealed that Delhi's four Waste-to-Energy (WTE) incineration plants score a staggering 100 out of 100 on the Central Pollution Control Board's (CPCB) own Pollution Index — making them more toxic than coal-fired power plants, open-cast coal mining, and copper smelters — yet the regulator quietly moved them into a newly created "Blue" category last year that strips away critical environmental safeguards.
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Himalayan floods are deadly debris events, not just water surges: SANDRP

  A devastating catastrophe across the Himalayas has prompted river and dam advocacy group South Asia Network on Dams, Rivers and People (SANDRP) to publish a scathing assessment of regional infrastructure planning, warning that planners and governments are committing fatal errors by treating Himalayan flood disasters merely as extreme water surges rather than catastrophic debris events . 
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From silence to testimony: Dalit women’s words as counter-history

 Dalit women's autobiographical writing in India is emerging as a formidable archive of political resistance, functioning less as personal memoir and more as collective testimony to centuries of caste, gender and class oppression, according to a comprehensive analysis by Professor Garima Srivastava . 
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Caste in the diaspora: Young Indian Americans grapple with an inherited hierarchy

A few days back, I happened to attend an interesting conversation among a group of young Indian Americans in Los Angeles. The theme proposed a deceptively simple proposition: can caste travel with people who leave India? The answer, the discussion made clear, is that it can—and that for a younger generation of the Indian diaspora, caste is not a subject safely confined to family histories, Indian villages, or the pages of social reform literature.
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