With #WestBengal's electoral rolls days from finalisation, 2 million voters are blocked—in unprecedented fashion—from voting because the #SupremeCourt has allowed the chaotic revision to continue beyond voting day. Kavitha Iyer reports
article-14.com/post/ahead-o...
After an unprecedented judicial steering of an electoral roll revision, the Constitutional guarantee of every citizen’s right to vote at every election, unless disqualified by law, is deferred for 2 million in #WestBengal, writes Kavitha Iyer
article-14.com/post/ahead-o...
A chaotic revision of electoral rolls placed 6 million electors under scrutiny in #WestBengal. 45% of these, rejected in adjudication, will approach appellate tribunals—too late for most of them to vote, writes Kavitha Iyer
article-14.com/post/ahead-o...
Days before the deadline to finalise electoral rolls for #WestBengal assembly elections on 23 & 29 April 2026, the #SupremeCourt has allowed ECI to stop 2 million people from casting their vote, putting on hold a Constitutional right, writes Kavitha Iyer
article-14.com/post/ahead-o...
“They beat us up. They shot us. One of us died”
Ahmer Khan and Tom Vaillant's multimedia story on how thousands of Muslim homes in #Assam have been razed, families devastated, lives upended
article-14.com/post/cleared...
"But we are not Bangladeshis. Our ancestors are from here. How do we go back to a place we have never known?”
Ahmer Khan and Tom Vaillant's multimedia story on how thousands of Muslim homes in #Assam have been razed, lives upended
article-14.com/post/cleared...
“My father & grandfather lived here"
"The govt refuses to follow the Constitution"
“No place for Muslims here”
Ahmer Khan & Tom Vaillant’s multimedia story on how thousands of Muslim homes in #Assam have been razed, families devastated, lives upended
article-14.com/post/cleared...
“The police told us to ‘go back to Bangladesh’. How do we go to a place we have never known?”
With #AssamPolls this week, Ahmer Khan and Tom Vaillant's multimedia story on how 1000s of Muslim homes in #Assam have been razed despite NRC docs/valid voter ID
article-14.com/post/cleared...
"At 5 a.m., 3 JCBs tore down our home. Now we have nothing"
Despite holding land titles, her house was demolished.
With #Assampolls this week, Ahmer Khan and Tom Vaillant
in this multimedia story report how thousands of homes in #Assam were razed
article-14.com/post/cleared...
We have shown how police cases have been riddled with inconsistencies, conjectures, partial truths and falsehoods.
Support us.
Subscribe to @article-14.com: article-14.com/subscribe
The right to vote exists in principle. But for many in #WestBengal this election, it may not exist in practice. Kavitha Iyer writes on the lack of due process; exclusion, particularly of #Muslims; and the risks from a judicialised election machinery.
Subscribe to read: article-14.com/subscribe
Days before voter lists close in W Bengal, lakhs are uncertain of their eligibility; appellate tribunals are not yet operational. An unprecedented judicial steering of an electoral exercise has not protected Constitutional guarantees, writes Kavitha Iyer
Subscribe to read: article-14.com/subscribe
The perceived legitimacy of the electoral process depends not just on its legal robustness but also on public trust in its fairness. The latter is now dangerously thin in #WestBengal, writes Kavitha Iyer. Subscribe to read our edit notes: article-14.com/subscribe
The right to vote exists in principle. But for many in #WestBengal this election, it may not exist in practice. Kavitha Iyer writes on the lack of due process; exclusion, particularly of #Muslims; and the risks from a judicialised election machinery.
Subscribe to read: article-14.com/subscribe
Days before voter lists close in W Bengal, lakhs are uncertain of their eligibility; appellate tribunals are not yet operational. An unprecedented judicial steering of an electoral exercise has not protected Constitutional guarantees, writes Kavitha Iyer
Subscribe to read: article-14.com/subscribe
A housing market where religion decides access—and price.
Ahmedabad’s Muslims pay more to live apart, in a system where exclusion drives inflation & restricts mobility, writes Sabah Gurmat
article14.substack.com/p/field-note...
Villas worth Rs 3–5 crore
Gated enclaves
Landscaped compounds
Sabah Gurmat explores segregation that confines #Muslims to an #Ahmedabad ‘ghetto’, where money can buy exclusive housing but not the ability to leave it
article14.substack.com/p/field-note...
Maharashtra’s new anti-conversion law was publicly opposed by dozens of civil society groups. But #Hindu outfits organised rallies, protests filled with Islamophobic hate speech, tracked social media & courts to break up interfaith couples. Kunal Purohit reports
article-14.com/post/late-ni...
“I can send my daughters abroad, but we can’t move to a posh society in Ahmedabad”
In a neighbourhood derogatorily called “mini Pakistan”, wealth cannot buy mobility—only costlier segregation, writes Sabah Gurmat
article14.substack.com/p/field-note...
Maharashtra minister Nitesh Rane has often insinuated an #Islamic conspiracy to lure #Hindu women into marriage & lead a successful #Hindutva campaign for the state’s new anti-conversion law. It hasn’t mattered that he presented no evidence to back his claims.
article-14.com/post/late-ni...
Since 2022, #Maharashtra’s #Hindu outfits held protests, rallies, thronged police stations, tracked interfaith couple—pressurising #Maharashtra govt to pass a law against ‘love jihad’, despite little evidence. Kunal Purohit investigates the modus operandi of the mobs
article-14.com/post/late-ni...
For years, #Hindutva outfits stoked fears of widespread religious conversions of Hindu women, with little evidence. On 17 March, #Maharashtra govt promulgated a new, draconian law. Kunal Purohit charts the trajectory of the new law from the streets to legislature
article-14.com/post/late-ni...
In Maharashtra, Bajrang Dal “sleeper cells” spent 3 yrs tracking Muslim–Hindu couples, breaking up relationships and feeding the “love jihad” narrative—now the state’s new anti‑conversion law hands police the power to institutionalise that hunt, reports Kunal Purohit
article-14.com/post/late-ni...
Maharashtra’s new anti-conversion law, India’s 13th, authorises police to probe conversions, imposes 7-yr jail term for illegal conversions. Kunal Purohit reveals how it happened: dozens of Islamophobic rallies warning against love jihad
article-14.com/post/late-ni...
Mumbai’s Omprakash Yadav, 40, Bajrang Dal vigilante—and pvt school teacher—spends as much time breaking up interfaith couples as he does teaching. Kunal Purohit reveals how an anti-‘love-jihad’ movement led to #Maharashtra’s draconian new anti-conversion law
article-14.com/post/late-ni...
Gathering intel about interfaith couples
Breaking up relationships
Tracking social media
Courting spies in courts
How a #Hindu vigilante movement against ‘love jihad’ forced #Maharashtra govt to pass a new, draconian law. @kunalpurohit.bsky.social reports
article-14.com/post/late-ni...
The Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) notification recognises traditional coastal communities but offers no safeguards against eviction, displacement, or livelihood loss. As ports expand, fisherfolk demand laws to protect them. Shreya Raman reports
article-14.com/post/as-indi...
With the NRC failing to move forward, the Special Intensive Revision of voter rolls can be used to exclude the same people through comparable administrative processes. Samar Halarnkar on the implications of the WB electoral chaos for millions, especially #Muslims
article-14.com/post/the-ele...
A theocratic state of the kind M S Golwalkar envisaged is now emerging, & although he never said so, it would have to be a one-party state—because the majority of Indians are unlikely to agree to it electorally, writes Samar Halarnkar
article-14.com/post/the-ele...
Satellite imagery from May 2023 of homes near Gujarat’s New Kandla Thermal Colony—and the area after demolition of ~700 Muslim homes in March 2025. Shreya Raman reports how, as ports expand, thousands with no legal titles are at risk on #India’s coasts
article-14.com/post/as-indi...
