Yogendra Yadav

The writer is president, Swaraj India

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Yogendra Yadav writes: From an IPS officer to Chief Justice of India — three incidents show caste isn’t in our pastSubscriber Only

October 14,2025 07:15:17 AM

It is not limited to the rural or traditional pockets of 'backwardness'; caste wears new masks in modern sections of our society.

Wed, Oct 15, 2025

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Yogendra Yadav writes: Let’s audit Bihar SIR. It makes for sad readingSubscriber Only

October 07,2025 07:34:07 AM

Although SC interventions allayed fears of mass disenfranchisement, the exercise has left much to be desired from the standpoint of accuracy equity, transparency, fairness

Tue, Oct 07, 2025

In these uncertain times, Partha Chatterjee’s new book is an opportunity to reckon with our past with an eye to the future

Partha Chatterjee’s new book will change the way we study Indian politicsSubscriber Only

September 30,2025 07:12:58 AM

In ‘For a Just Republic: The People of India and the State’ Chatterjee locates the enduring crisis of the Indian state in the tension between its two layers: the ‘nation-state’ — the formal state apparatus — and the ‘people-nation’, the ground reality that refuses to play by the given script

Fri, Oct 03, 2025

The legacy of Indian socialism can’t be allowed to fade away. It’s the Left we needSubscriber Only

September 24,2025 07:32:23 AM

Its ideas are critical for us today. It’s time to recall, repurpose and renew its political and ideological resources.

Wed, Sep 24, 2025

Yogendra Yadav writes | SIR questions, beyond Aadhaar: The Election Commission is ignoring its own rulesSubscriber Only

September 10,2025 19:08:05 PM

Why is this exercise being carried out in a shroud of secrecy, disregarding all the well-laid-out norms that have been evolved over the years? If the ECI refuses to abide by these, will the apex court go along?

Tue, Sep 16, 2025

The case of Umar Khalid and others is a textbook example of what justice is notSubscriber Only

September 05,2025 07:40:18 AM

If he is in jail for saying the CAA was anti-Muslim, I should be too. If Khalid Saifi is in jail for coordinating local protests against the CAA, I should be too

Fri, Sep 05, 2025

While the Supreme Court’s intervention has checked some of the disenfranchising impulse of the SIR, at least in Bihar, the possibility of any further disenfranchisement depends on the nature of the documents considered admissible.. (Illustration by C R Sasikumar)

Mass deletion of voters is looming over Bihar SIRSubscriber Only

August 26,2025 07:20:58 AM

Unless the ECI is made to adopt more expansive criteria of eligible documents, more than two crore face removal.

Tue, Aug 26, 2025

Let us also note what the SIR should have done to improve the accuracy of electoral rolls, but has not cared to do.

Yogendra Yadav writes: Election Commission is right about the voters list problem — and it has the wrong solutionSubscriber Only

August 19,2025 10:19:36 AM

We have a problem with voters' lists. But SIR is not the solution. It's worse than the disease

Tue, Aug 19, 2025

Yogendra Yadav, Rahul Shastri write on SIR: In Bihar, the edge of disenfranchisementSubscriber Only

August 12,2025 07:10:33 AM

If ECI adheres to its fiat of asking for one of the 11 specified documents, at least 50 per cent of those required to produce a document could be excluded from the final voters list in Bihar.

Tue, Aug 12, 2025

Bihar SIR, data indicates, is not an exercise in revision but mass deletionSubscriber Only

July 31,2025 06:32:53 AM

If the SIR leads to a Bihar-like drop in the Electors to Adult Population Ratio in the entire country, we are looking at potential disenfranchisement of about nine crore Indians

Thu, Jul 31, 2025

Yogendra Yadav writes: On ground in Bihar, Election Commission of India writes a dystopian fictionSubscriber Only

July 24,2025 06:50:08 AM

ECI’s claims about progress of electoral roll revision in Bihar are sharply at odds with first-hand accounts of chaos and procedural violations

Thu, Jul 24, 2025

'The SIR seeks to reverse the logic of encompassment. It seeks to formalise the logic of closure that would result in graded inequality of citizenship'

Yogendra Yadav writes: Bihar’s SIR exercise is a threat to right to vote — across IndiaSubscriber Only

July 15,2025 07:29:44 AM

It is, in fact, a rewriting of the rules, procedures and protocols of how the voter list is to be created. At stake here is the foundational principle of universal adult franchise

Tue, Jul 15, 2025

In Bihar, it’s not just about a voter listSubscriber Only

July 09,2025 07:46:37 AM

A sample survey shows that the very principle of universal adult franchise is in danger of being undermined by the way EC's special intensive revision exercise is being conducted

Wed, Jul 09, 2025

Yogendra Yadav writes on Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls: An attack on the right to voteSubscriber Only

July 02,2025 06:00:55 AM

The move – first in Bihar and then in the rest of the country — has shifted the onus of being on the voters' list from the state to the citizen

Wed, Jul 02, 2025

Yogendra Yadav writes: US, Israel and the age of moral paralysisSubscriber Only

June 24,2025 06:44:00 AM

Just replace the US and Iran with China and India in an imaginary future, and you understand the lesson of history: You need friends and some principles to survive in the real world

Tue, Jun 24, 2025

Yogendra Yadav on Nirmal Verma: A critic of the modern Indian mindSubscriber Only

June 17,2025 06:59:18 AM

It would be a colossal mistake not to take writer and thinker Nirmal Verma’s questions as the starting point to rethink our nationalism today

Tue, Jun 17, 2025

Sanjeev Bikhchandani’s letter to the Ashoka community regarding Professor Mahmudabad asks the wrong questions

Yogendra Yadav writes: Ashoka University and illiberal Liberal ArtsSubscriber Only

June 10,2025 07:30:41 AM

Sanjeev Bikhchandani’s letter to the Ashoka community regarding Professor Mahmudabad asks the wrong questions

Tue, Jun 10, 2025

Yogendra Yadav writes: When a nation’s idea of itself is stolen, what follows must be more than recoverySubscriber Only

June 05,2025 07:46:04 AM

It must be the re-imagination of a rich, rooted, plural and non-jingoistic nationalism

Thu, Jun 05, 2025

Yogendra Yadav writes: The nationalism we forgotSubscriber Only

May 27,2025 07:35:31 AM

With citizens’ rights being pitted against national interest, the rich and layered legacy inherited from freedom struggle is in jeopardy

Tue, May 27, 2025

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Yogendra Yadav writes: A stable and peaceful Pakistan is in India’s national interestSubscriber Only

May 17,2025 07:02:19 AM

An assessment of Operation Sindoor must begin by defending the government from two unfair criticisms, one from warmongers, other from peaceniks. After that, there are questions

Sat, May 17, 2025