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Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the Workers’ Party (PT) candidate, speaks to supporters after winning the presidential runoff in São Paulo, Brazil, on October 25, 2026.

BRAZIL ELECTION 2026

Lula beats Flavio Bolsonaro in Brazil’s presidential election, dealing a blow to Trump’s hemispheric ambitions

Leftist incumbent wins a historic fourth term with 51.8 per cent of the vote, cementing Brazil as a counterweight to Washington as the defeated Bolsonaro refuses to concede.

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The CJP’s chief spokesperson and co-convenor, Saurav Das (right) and Ashutosh Ranka, speaking to mediapersons in New Delhi following their release on October 21 after spending seven days in judicial custody.

CRACKDOWN ON CJP

Running scared of the Roaches

With the CJP’s call for the CEC’s resignation resonating across the nation, a rattled Central government seems determined to clamp down on the youth even as it goes easy on the political opposition.

The anti-Vijayan who became his echo

Keralam Chief Minister V.D. Satheesan, despite positioning himself as the antithesis of his predecessor, is facing internal criticism within the UDF and accusations that he is replicating Pinarayi Vijayan’s abrasive and opaque style of governance.

M.G. Radhakrishnan

Citizens have two months to save Indian democracy

Gyanesh Kumar will not resign, and the BJP won’t let him. The opposition can’t boycott the ECI or the elections. The window to prevent electoral authoritarianism is closing fast.

Prakasam district Superintendent of Police V. Harshavardhan Raju inspects security arrangements at nomination centres to ensure the peaceful conduct of the MPTC and ZPTC election nomination process in on October 23, 2026.

Violence and intimidation mar Andhra Pradesh local body polls as opposition cries foul

From torn nomination papers to alleged police partisanship, the run-up to the local body elections has raised questions about the state machinery and the NDA’s conduct, even as the TDP denies the charges and points fingers back at the YSRCP.

Special Intensive Revision

Can the ECI’s damage control redeem its credibility after the SIR controversy?

The Election Commission of India has announced a slew of course corrections and a show of unity, but experts and activists say the measures leave core issues unaddressed and accountability unfixed.

Why have new enumerators been introduced for Census 2027?

The Home Ministry’s sudden notification to change who can become an enumerator for Census 2027 is generating suspicion, with allegations that the BJP wants to extend its political agenda through the census as well.

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The CPI (M-L)L’s students’ association president Neha Bora with protesters near Jantar Mantar in New Delhi on October 3.

Left at the centre

There is a definite Left imprint in the ongoing protests across cities, which shows an interesting amalgam of new media with old rights-based issues.

Editor’s note

A young woman blocking a police bus carrying protesters who were demanding the resignation of CEC Gyanesh Kumar and the scrapping of the SIR, in New Delhi, on October 10, 2026.

Wanted: Complete overhaul

Rather than worry about electoral gains or losses, any mobilisation against Gyanesh Kumar, the SIR, and the ECI must have as its only objective the reinstatement of full integrity in the electoral process.

Parakala Prabhakar

Protesters during the INDIA bloc’s march to the Supreme Court demanding action against CEC Gyanesh Kumar, in New Delhi on October 12.

Tracing the fall

The ECI’s decline from being one of the most trusted and reputed public institutions to an object of wide disparagement can also be traced to the re-emergence of single-party dominance.

The opposition leaders’ protest march from Parliament to the ECI office in New Delhi on October 6, 2026.

The Election Commission’s decade of declining credibility

The ECI’s decisions began to be tracked and critiqued by the opposition from 2017 onwards. Since then, the censure has only grown louder, with each exposé reducing the credibility of this once-venerated institution.

Voters queue up to cast their ballot at Gashbari village in Darrang district, Assam, on April 26, 2024.

The unmaking of the Indian citizen

The preparing of the rolls is when Indians experience a collective sense of national identity. It is this idea of citizenship that the SIR has upended with its explicitly exclusionary stance.

The police using water cannons to disperse SFI activists who were demanding the resignation of the then Union Education Minister, Dharmendra Pradhan, in Thrissur in July 2026.

When evil learns the language of democracy

The most dangerous political actors are those so convinced of the virtue of their objectives, they no longer feel obliged to examine the morality of their methods. It is here that Alan Wolfe begins to speak rather uncomfortably to contemporary India.

Manoj Kumar Jha

Police must be free from politics: Meeran Chadha Borwankar

The use of force against protesters, the detention of journalists and restrictions on movement and internet access in Delhi have raised serious questions about the measures taken by the Delhi Police.

An idol of Ram at the entrance to the Salt Lake Sanskritik Sansad Durga pandal in October 2026.

Forcefully faithful

With the arrival of the BJP and its fraught politics of division in Bengal this year, the famed Durga Pujo has been remade, shrunk, and mangled.

Prathyush Parasuraman

A shopkeeper counts Indian currency coins at his shop in the old quarters of Delhi on September 24, 2025.

Inflation in India: A pricey background reader

This package collects stories and interviews on the causes of inflation in the country, the forces shaping price rises, and their implications for economic policy, growth and household budgets.

All India Students’ Association (AISA) president Neha Bora shouts slogans as police detain her during a protest demanding Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar’s resignation in New Delhi on October 16, 2026.

A generation at war for its future

Young people worldwide are losing faith in political institutions and the elites who run them. In India, they have so far restrained themselves, knowing the state can punish dissent brutally. But this restraint may not last.

Parvez Parwaz was a journalist with a long legal history with Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Adityanath.

The questions and concerns around the death of Parvez Parwaz

His case has become a reference point for debates on dissent, prosecution, and custodial care in Uttar Pradesh.

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