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  Nala Ponnappa cartoon --- No No, No Questions [at] Praise conference

  22 May
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  22 May
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  Table of Contents, Mainstream, May 12, 2026

  12 May

  * Cognitive Warfare, Disinformation Infrastructure, & The Neuro-Politics of Indian Elections | Er. Kritika
  * Confronting the final assault on peoples

• Modi squashes INDIA bloc; Rahul acquiesces | Faraz Ahmad

  12 May, by Faraz Ahmad

  What’s happening in Bengal, the way the Election Commission has not merely facilitated the loot of the Bengal polling but became an unabashed participant in this mayhem and dacoity throughout the state, doesn’t surprise me one bit frankly, as I wrote in my previous piece that even if the Trinamul Congress TMC) were to scrape through by sheer grit, this is no Election when the bulk of voters prima facie suspects in the eyes of the BJP, have been literally weeded out and disenfranchised.
  But (…)

• 2026 Assembly Elections: Results and Their Implications | P. S. Jayaramu

  12 May, by P S Jayaramu

  May 5, 2026
  Results of the much awaited assembly elections held in five States are out throwing up numerous questions about the strengths and weaknesses of the contending Political Parties, their strategies and the implications of the outcome for national and regional politics.
  Let me start my analysis with the smallest of the States, Puducherry first. The contest did not attract much media glaze as it was more or less a forgone conclusion that the NDA would return to power. Mr. (…)

• Reading Jadunath Sarkar in Chaotic Times | Arup Kumar Sen

  12 May, by Arup Kumar Sen

  In the current assembly elections, the BJP has come to power in West Bengal with a landslide victory, defeating its nearest rival, the All India Trinamool Congress (TMC). This is the first time that a party which distinctly preaches

• From Mass Line to Managerialism: A Marxist Assessment of the 2026

  12 May, by Jos Chathukulam

  Abstract
  The recent Assembly electoral, 2026 setback of the

• West Bengal Assembly Elections 2026 and the Footfalls of Fascism — A Balance Sheet | Kunal Chattopadhyay

  12 May

  [May 8, 2026]
  by Kunal Chattopadhyay
  The 2026 West Bengal Assembly election was possibly the most important, not just for the province of West Bengal, but with an all India significance. The Bharatiya Janata Party and its allies had found in the 2024 Parliamentary elections that they had gone over the peak and were in a decline. With the bulk of India

• Rewiring The Electorate: Cognitive Warfare, Disinformation Infrastructure, And The Neuro-Politics of Indian Elections |

  12 May

  Abstract: The democratic imagination assumes the existence of a freely deliberating citizen. This assumption is being attacked not just by the dissemination of fake news, but by a larger-scale, systemically-oriented reality, the active creation of cognitive spaces where independent thought cannot occur. Building off neuro-cybersecurity as analytic frame and the conceptualisation of cognitive warfare in the literature on international security, this paper states that the electoral ecosystem (…)

• Morarji Desai at 130: Leadership, Democracy, and the Ethics of Governance in Modern India | Jos Chathukulam

  12 May, by Jos Chathukulam

  Abstract
  The 130th birth anniversary of Morarji Desai provides a critical opportunity to reassess his contributions through the lens of political theory and democratic practice. As India