EC's Planned Revision of Bihar Voter List Seen as Move to Disenfranchise Poor; Vantara’s Acquistion of Animals Continues to Raise Eyebrows; Hate Crimes in Modi 3.0
How Trains, Venn Diagrams, KL Rahul and Kneecap Can Help Us Understand Shah’s Anti-English remark
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Over to Siddharth Varadarajan for today’s Cable
Snapshot of the day
June 27, 2025
Siddharth Varadarajan
Leading opposition parties on Thursday attacked the Election Commission of India (ECI) over its decision to conduct a door-to-door special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, beginning with Bihar, with West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee saying the move was “even more dangerous” than the National Register of Citizens (NRC).
In Bihar, which is scheduled to go to the polls later this year, the Opposition Mahagathbandhan or Grand Alliance signalled that it will launch a protest and emphasised that the exercise was totally impractical and would lead to the omission of names of tens of thousands of voters who cannot provide necessary documents. “I don’t understand the reason behind the ECI move or the rationale behind selecting these dates. This is nothing short of a scam. I seek clarification from the commission on whether they are trying to implement the NRC through the back door. In fact, this looks to be more dangerous than the NRC which every political party in Opposition must resist,” Banerjee said.
The ECI has set the voter roll of 2003 as a cut-off date. As an editorial in the Times of India explains succinctly,
“That means those who registered as voters after 2003 will have to show proof of eligibility from a range of documents, including birth certificates and an NRC. This is where it gets tricky, and political. To furnish any document in remote parts of, say, north Bihar is akin to seeking lasting peace in West Asia. These are voters too poor to even migrate out. Even today, barely 75% of births in poverty-ridden Bihar are ‘registered’. So, birth certificates for those born after 2004, who also need to furnish parents’ documents, as proof of citizenship will throw up a gazillion issues.”
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United States President Donald Trump on Thursday announced that his country has signed a trade deal with China and hinted that a “very big” deal might follow soon with India with an Indian negotiating team has arrived in the US, seeking to secure an interim trade deal before a July 9 deadline when higher US tariffs are set to kick in. “...We just signed (trade deal) with China. We're not going to make deals with everybody... But we’re having some great deals. We have one coming up, maybe with India, a very big one,” Trump said while speaking at a White House event aimed at promoting a government spending bill. The US president had repeatedly said he intended to impose a reciprocal tax on India, among others, citing high tariffs the countries impose on foreign goods.
As the July 9 deadline approaches, the initial optimism surrounding India’s trade deal talks with the US has waned, with The Economist questioning whether India can trust Trump to honour any agreement that is ultimately signed. It says,
“It is reportedly seeking assurances that the Trump administration is not going to introduce more tariffs down the line; it wants to ensure that any deal that is agreed now can be immediately renegotiated if that happens. Some think India should wait and see if Mr Trump will actually raise tariffs on July 9th. American courts may eventually rule that the president does not have the right to do so in the way he has threatened.
Many Indian analysts look askance at the interim deal Britain signed with America in May, which they think required the smaller country to give too much away. If that is the reward for moving quickly, goes the thinking, perhaps dragging one’s heels is not so bad. “A trade war is not a physical war—nobody is bombing you,” advises Mr Srivastava. “One should not surrender.””
India has denied allowing a UN investigator to join the probe into the Ahmedabad Air India plane crash incident, reports Reuters. According to the details, Indian authorities refused the offer after the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) had asked for the investigator, who was in India, to be given observer status. Earlier this week, the UN aviation agency took the unusual step of offering India one of its investigators to provide assistance following the Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner crash, killing 275 people in Ahmedabad earlier this month.
But then again, who needs videshi expertise when Narendra Modi himself has made his expertise in aircraft crash investigations available?
India has held discussions with Russia over the supply of additional S-400 systems, Su-30 MKI upgrades, and procurement of critical military hardware in expeditious timeframes. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh had a bilateral meeting with his Russian counterpart Andrey Belousov on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Defence Ministers’ Meeting in Qingdao, China. The two Ministers held in-depth discussions on a range of issues covering current geopolitical situations, cross-border terrorism and Indo-Russian defence cooperation. During the meeting, the Russian Defence Minister highlighted the long-standing Indo-Russian relations and expressed solidarity with India on the horrendous Pahalgham terror attack.
How does New Delhi view the trilateral meeting between foreign ministry officials from Bangladesh, China and Pakistan in Kunming earlier this month? The external affairs ministry when asked said that India keeps “a constant watch” on regional developments that “have a bearing on our interest and our security”, adding that while its relations with these countries “stand on their own footing”, it “take[s] into account the evolving context as well”. The remarks are at a remove from its long-held view that India does not view its bilateral relations with individual nations through the lens of third countries. Incidentally, both Beijing and Dhaka have said after the trilateral that it was not targeted at a third party.
Meanwhile, the external affairs ministry has also accused Bangladesh’s interim government of “allowing the destruction” of a Durga temple in Dhaka at the behest of “extremists” as well as of “projecting” it as an incident of “illegal land use”, adding that it was “dismayed” that such incidents have recurred in the country. “Let me underline that it is the responsibility of the interim government of Bangladesh to protect Hindus,” spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said. Meanwhile, the interim government has issued a detailed statement explaining what happened.
The Pahalgam terror attack has slashed Amarnath Yatra registrations by over 10%. Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha admitted the dip – about 35,000 to 40,000 fewer pilgrims. Though he sought to display optimism, his assurances ring hollow as gunfights rage in Udhampur, exposing glaring security vulnerabilities. Once surging, registrations nosedived after the April 22 massacre that claimed 26 innocent lives. Despite heavy deployments, public confidence is shaken, with the Yatra’s spiritual journey now clouded by bloodshed, fear, and crumbling faith in state security promises.
The New York Times has profiled the famous parents of Democratic nominee for New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani, the filmmaker Mira Nair and the Columbia University professor Mahmood Mamdani. But the profile also raises the possibility of his parents’ critical views of Israel – which mirror his own – might be used (or rather, misused) against him by his political opponents.
The Press Club of India (PCI), in association with 21 press bodies and over 1,000 journalists and photojournalists from across the country, has raised concerns about the provisions of the Data Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act, 2023 after concluding that they are against the journalists’ fundamental right to work. In a joint memorandum submitted to Ashwini Vaishnaw, the minister for Electronics and Information and Broadcasting, the PCI and other press bodies have urged him to keep the professional work of journalists across print, online and electronic media, outside the scope of the DPDP Act.
The ‘one nation, one election’ Bills do not contravene the basic structure of the constitution, as “staggered elections cannot be considered as a feature of the original constitution, let alone an immutable feature” of it, former Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud has reportedly said in writing to the parliamentary committee that is examining the legislation. Sobhana Nair reports that Justice Chandrachud also expressed his view that simultaneous elections will not necessarily result in the prioritisation of national-level matters over regional ones because voters are not “naive” and readily manipulable. He does think that the concern that national parties could marginalise their regional counterparts deserves legislative attention but already exists independently of the two Bills. He is scheduled to meet the parliamentary panel on July 11.
Controversy over the proposed installation of an Ambedkar statue at the Madhya Pradesh high court in Jabalpur has reignited tensions along caste lines and begun to take on a political nature too. A registrar of the high court had earlier this year written of then-Chief Justice Suresh Kait's approval for the statue, but upper caste lawyers have said that some lawyers obtained this green light by presenting to Kait a ‘fake memorandum’ that wasn't signed by many bar association members. Kait is Dalit. In the tussle over the statue's installation that followed, finds Anant Gupta, some savarna lawyers have asserted their caste identity in response to perceived likewise assertion by Ambedkarites; the Bhim Army has entered the picture, demanding that the statue be installed; and political parties like the Congress too have gotten involved.
Parents across the country and especially in Delhi have been up in arms against “unsustainable” fee hikes charged by private schools. Many parents are also worried that the Delhi Public School Dwarka's decision to have guards and bouncers prevent students whose families did not pay the hiked fees from attending class will set a bad precedent. Some demand that schools' finances are annually audited so that parents know what they are paying for, and in Delhi parents have called for their feedback to be worked into a proposed law that would more tightly regulate private school fees. Nikita Yadav has the dispatch.
Modi 3.0 marked by 947 hate-related incidents in one year
The Association for Protection of Civil Rights and the Quill Foundation has released a new report documenting 947 hate-related incidents across the country during the first year of the Modi-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA)’s third term, with religious minorities – particularly Muslims and Christians – being the primary targets of violence and hate speech. The report tracked 947 hate crimes and hate speeches between June 7, 2024 and June 7, 2025, which includes 602 hate crimes and 345 instances of hate speech, many of them linked to members or affiliates of Modi’s ruling BJP. “Despite the increasing intensity and occurrences, there is no institutional effort to record or document hate crimes,” the report said. It noted that while atrocities against Dalits are tracked under Indian law, no similar mechanism exists for religious minorities.
According to the report, Muslims were the primary victims, with 1,460 affected in 419 incidents. Christians, while fewer in incident count, accounted for 1,504 victims in 85 attacks. At least 25 Muslims were killed, and 173 incidents involved physical violence.
Congress slams RSS’s call to review ‘socialist’, ‘secular’ in preamble of Constitution
The Congress party slammed the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) following its call to reconsider the inclusion of the words “socialist” and “secular” in the preamble of the Indian Constitution.
At an event marking the 50th anniversary of the Emergency, RSS General Secretary Dattatreya Hosabale said that the terms “socialist” and “secular” were not part of Ambedkar’s original draft. He added they were inserted during the Emergency via the 1976 Forty‑Second Amendment, a period when Parliament, the judiciary, and fundamental rights were all severely curtailed . Hosabale said, “The Preamble Baba Saheb Ambedkar made never had these words. During the Emergency, the judiciary became lame, then these words were added,” and called for a public debate on whether they should remain.
The Congress has countered that the RSS “never accepted” Ambedkar’s Constitution and that their demand was part of the conspiracy to destroy it. Rahul Gandhi tweeted:
“The mask of RSS has come off again. The Constitution irks them because it speaks of equality, secularism, and justice. RSS-BJP doesn’t want the Constitution; they want Manusmriti. They aim to strip the marginalized and the poor of their rights and enslave them again. Snatching a powerful weapon like the Constitution from them is their real agenda.”
Vantara’s acquistion of animals continues to raise eyebrows
The German newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung – which reported earlier this year that Anant Ambani's Vantara ‘rescue centre’ has acquired a whopping total of over 39,000 wild animals, much of them over the nine months before March, and may have fuelled the illegal wildlife trade in doing so – has followed up on its initial investigation with two more reports. The first is about exotic birds trader Martin Guth, whom SZ says is sourcing animals for the centre; the paper has acquired WhatsApp exchanges involving him. The second report is about the Reptilienzoo Forchenstein trader that has sent snakes to Vantara.
Both follow-up reports come after a separate investigation by the Czech outlet iRozhlas, which contains the following disconcerting quote from breeder and businessman Jindrich Blahoz, that the reason why ‘so many specimens are flowing into India’ is because Ambani ‘would like all the animals in the world’: “They ask about different species and they are either found or not. They complete, complement their collection and want to have it complete. They want to have basically all kinds of animals that exist.”
Modi govt undermines science with delayed funding for researchers, diverts 70% of funds to corporates
India’s scientific progress is stalling as researchers under the Department of Science and Technology face funding delays of up to nine months, reports Tapasya. Despite the Modi government’s vocal push for innovation, 70% of the science budget has been diverted to interest-free loans for corporations, leaving public research institutions starved of resources. Scientists report financial hardship and halted projects, calling the government's budget claims misleading. Critics warn the shift from funding public research to aiding private industry threatens India’s knowledge economy and risks triggering a damaging brain drain.
The Long Cable
How Trains, Venn Diagrams, KL Rahul and Kneecap Can Help Us Understand Shah’s Anti-English remark
Palash Krishna Mehrotra
When one has a fundamentally divisive mind, it tends to perceive the world in separate circles, each distinct from the other. A shining example of this is Amit Shah’s circular saffron mind.
Speaking at a book launch in New Delhi, he said: “In our lifetime, we will see a society in which those speaking English will feel ashamed, that day is not far. I believe that the languages of our country are the ornaments of our culture. Without them, we would not have been Bhartiya. Our country, its history, its culture, our dharma – if these have to be understood, it cannot be done in foreign languages.”
Getting back to circles, there’s another way of looking at them – the Venn diagram. Here, the circles of language overlap and are not mutually exclusive. This is not a matter of some great civilisational achievement, mastered with great difficulty, but a fact of Indian linguistic necessity. Taking my own example, in my school-leaving exams I scored 92 in both English and Hindi. Before that, from classes five to eight, I was a consistent topper in Sanskrit. I don’t remember anything now, except a shloka or two.
Combining both sides of my family, it has produced writers in Hindi, English and Gujarati, as well as translators. At home in Vile Parle, Bombay, my mother spoke Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Vaghri and English. Plenty of Venn diagrams here.
I grew up in Allahabad, the Hindi heartland. In my ICSE school, no one - except the teachers - spoke in English, not even Hinglish. It was Hindi through and through. It was only when I arrived at St Stephen’s in Delhi that I began conversing in English; the college had students from all over: from the Northeast and Bhutan to the southern states, not to mention South Delhi where Hindi, for some odd reason, is considered a language for domestic help. The linguistic transition happened organically and naturally; nothing was forced. One just responded to the verbal reality of what was around.
Moving away from me and my family, Dinesh Karthik made a pertinent observation about KL Rahul’s linguistic dexterity, while commentating on the recently-concluded Test match between India and England. Rahul spoke to different batting partners in different languages: Rishab Pant in Hindi, Karun Nair in Kannada and Sai Sudharshan in Tamil. He ended the day talking to Sky Sports in English. That would make for the mother of all Venn diagrams.
The problem with Amit Shah is that he is a person who doesn’t read and write, who wants to tell those that do read and write, how to go about the business of, well, reading and writing. His designation is that of Home Minister but what he would really like to be is Minister of Education and Culture. Now, if he was Railways Minister, I could provide him with a different, equally useful analogy, which does the same job as the analogy by Venn diagram.
Languages are like railway tracks; the Indian is the train on the tracks. At times, the tracks diverge, then they join up again. Along the way, the train, at times, runs along junctions, at others on single-track. The train at no point gets derailed. When Shah hints at the erasure of English, what he doesn’t realise is that the train is already too far down the railroad to turn back.
When it comes to English, Shah would do well to set the Hindutva house in order first. Hindu Right intellectuals writing revisionist history and biographies of ‘overlooked’ figures like Savarkar, are all writing in English. A new English-language publishing ecosystem has come into being for Hindutva intellectuals. By Shah’s logic, this should then be nipped in the bud, and the PM should stop doing photo-ops with these authors with immediate effect. Bhartiyata, like charity, begins at home.
Let me bring into the argument the Irish-English rap act called Kneecap. The Belfast trio are hugely popular now, not just in Northern Ireland but around the world; one of their key founding principles is promotion of the Irish language. Their acclaimed self-titled film, a semi-fictionalised origin story of the band, directed by Michael Fassbender, was mostly in Irish.
Writes Elena Cavender on Mashable: “Often repeated in the film is the line, ‘Every word of Irish spoken is a bullet for Irish freedom.’ The movie takes place in 2019 in West Belfast, during the height of advocacy for recognition of the Irish language in the United Kingdom. In 2022, the country's Identity and Language Act passed, granting Irish an equal status to English. It established the Irish language commissioner to develop Irish in Northern Ireland, repealed the ban of Irish in Northern Ireland courts, and allowed members of the Northern Ireland Assembly to speak Irish. The reality of the band's formation in 2017 was just as closely tied with the moment.”
On the surface, Kneecap’s backing of Irish and Shah’s backing of Indian vernaculars seem to have a lot in common. Scratch the surface and a different reality emerges. In Northern Ireland, approximately 43,500 people or 2.43% of the people speak Irish daily. The 2021 census showed that 0.3% of the population aged 3 and up claimed Irish as their main home language. It’s a language on the verge of extinction that needs propping up.
Indian languages are not endangered. Nor do they require official legitimisation. We speak in our various tongues everyday; they are embedded in a thriving culture: cinema, OTT, books and music. Also, in Northern Ireland, the debate is between two languages - Irish and English. In India, we have dozens of languages, which complicates matters significantly. Besides, Kneecap is not anti-English. It’s the language they themselves use to communicate with us - the rest of the world, and, I reckon, with each other. It’s very much part of their songs.
And what should one make of Shah’s remark, that “we will see a society in which those speaking English will feel ashamed, that day is not far.” Let me put it this way: We English speakers are already deeply ashamed of our English. Forget about the day being far, it’s already here. We make a thousand errors when speaking and writing English because we are like that only. It’s there to hear and read in our media, even the books published by our publishing houses.
It took me two long days to write and edit this piece; someone whose first language is English would have written it in half an hour. I’m sure the piece still contains errors. I’m deeply ashamed.
(The writer is the author of The Butterfly Generation: A Personal Journey into the Passions and Follies of India’s Technicolor Youth, and the editor of Recess: The Penguin Book of Schooldays)
Reportedly
Delhi’s BJP Chief Minister Rekha Gupta was asked what she would advise the comedian Kunal Kamra if he wanted to come to the National Capital for a show, one where he would tell jokes about ‘our Prime Minister’. “He can come at his own risk”, she said, her smile barely concealing the menace unbecoming of a CM. Kamra had the last word. “Come at your own risk” should be a tagline for Delhi Tourism,” he tweeted.
Pen vs sword
Deep dive
Manipur's ethnic conflict has deeply separated the Meitei and Kuki communities from each other, but it would be naive to think that violence in the state occurs only along ethnic lines. One case in point is the stifling of Meitei voices with violence or threats for pointing to former chief minister N Biren Singh's failure to control the conflict or for criticising various armed groups in the state. Some of the targeted individuals have felt it necessary to exile themselves to elsewhere in India or abroad. Sangeeta Barooah Pisharoty profiles a number of such Meitei dissenters, comprising activists, journalists, politicians and a former police officer. She looks at how they attracted Biren Singh's ire and where they find themselves in its wake.
Prime number: Rs 26,261 per day for 13 days and counting
The British F-35 stealth fighter that’s been stranded at Thiruvananthapuram airport for want of repair of its hydraulic systems may be incurring a daily parking fee of Rs 26,261 per day, the Indian Defence Research Wing website estimates based on the Adani-operated airport's known fees for other aircraft. The fighter, which had to make an emergency landing at the airport on June 14, will be moved to the maintenance repair and overhaul facility there, and thereafter to the hangar once British engineering teams arrive there with specialist equipment, the British high commission said today.
Opeds you don’t want to miss
There are many things wrong about the Election Commission's planned ‘special intensive revision’ of the voter roll in Bihar, writes Jagdeep Chhokar, especially its attempt to force voters to submit documents pertaining to their parents in order to prove their Indian citizenship. But there is a lot else about the move that is suspect, he notes in point-by-point analysis of the EC’s notification.
Normalising the idea of dividing Indians on the basis of religious identity “has progressed to the point that the EC, instead of checking voter eligibility, is now checking citizenship and illegal immigration,” writes Shikha Mukherjee in a critique of the Election Commission’s controversial move.
Modi and his allies have repeatedly projected the prime minister’s diplomacy as something aimed at turning India into a vishwaguru, writes Charu Sudan Kasturi on how India ought to have played a proactive role in bringing about the Israel-Iran ceasefire. “But here is the bitter truth: no one likes a confused teacher”
Daniel Block looks at the Indian media’s coverage of foreign policy and especially its tendency to project Narendra Modi as some sort of master strategist:
“Modi is not a geostrategic genius. He is the beneficiary of India’s rise, not the force behind it. He is not outwitting or outfoxing New Delhi’s friends and enemies, as journalists have suggested. Instead, he is muddling through—including, and perhaps especially, when it comes to Washington.”
Of all the lessons the recent Iran-Israel-US crisis holds out for South Asia, Lindsey Ford says Pakistan is likely to want to ramp up its strategic programs:
“The loudest message Rawalpindi might take away from the past week is to accelerate your strategic programs while you can. India’s targeting of Nur Khan airbase, Israel’s rapid elimination of Iranian military leaders, and now U.S. attacks on Iran’s supposedly impenetrable facilities, have all highlighted the greater ease with which strategic facilities and personnel can be put at risk. Pakistani leaders have long feared that the United States could eliminate its nuclear program. The Trump administration’s risky strike on three Iranian facilities will only deepen this sense of paranoia. The logical response from Islamabad would be to accelerate development of new deterrent capabilities.”
To be the world’s next factory as its leaders promise, writes Andy Mukherjee, India needs to dramatically increase domestic investment. “But how will funds flow into projects that create new assets, when the bottleneck is not in supply of credit but demand?” he asks.
The “insistence on the three-language formula, with Hindi part of the package across the country, is a political project that burdens India’s schoolchildren”, says Pulapre Balakrishnan. Unlike learning a third language informally, having to learn it in school will be an extra burden on students and could come at the expense of more important subjects, he argues.
Some genuine democratic questions lie at the heart of Amit Shah's remarks on English in India, but his promotion of “cultural revenge” is not an answer to ameliorating them. Instead, says Ruchi Gupta, “the nation-building path … is two-fold: to democratise English while inculcating pride in Indian languages”.
When the Department of Financial Services will hold a brainstorming summit on financial inclusion with banking leaders on Monday, will issues such as a declining number of bank mitras (business correspondents) and rural bank branches, as well as the rise in bad loans that banks have been writing off, figure in the discussions? “What we need,” says Anirban Bhattacharya, “is more public sector bank branches and more staff if we are to truly script a story of inclusion”.
The partition of India is a story that has been told countless times before but Sam Dalyrmple’s attempt to widen the narrative to cover the wider arc of British India which colonial administrators ended up drawing dividing lines through. Hugh Thomson reviews Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern South Asia in The Spectator.
Listen up
Against the background of his new book The Great Eastern Hotel that is set in Calcutta in the early '40s, Ruchir Joshi speaks to journalist Sandip Roy about “why the years 1941 to 1943 were so pivotal, how Calcutta became a crossroads of empire and resistance, and how a diverse cast of characters, from elite Bengalis to British expatriates and street pickpockets, bring this charged moment to life”.
Watch out
On Kapil Sibal's ‘Central Hall’ show, economists Jayati Ghosh, Arun Kumar and Pronab Sen explore how India's projected GDP growth of 6.5% “masks the struggles of millions at the bottom”, from “growing wealth disparities and stagnant job creation to the stark divide between the organised and unorganised sectors”.
Over and out
Prada’s Spring/Summer 2026 show in Milan included a handmade leather ‘sandal’ that looks suspiciously like the traditional Kolhapuri chappal from Maharashtra – staple footwear for generations of Indians. After protests from chappal manufacturers and adverse comments on social media about cultural appropriation, Prada has released a statement to the Economic Times seeking to mollify its critics.
While the BJP-led government now says it will fight for the state’s product, the sweeping ban on the slaughter of cattle and bullocks introduced by the party in 2014 has taken its toll of the traditional chappal manufacturing industry which has found it difficult to source high quality leather locally.
Today a version of Sholay is scheduled to screen at the Cinema Ritrovato Festival in Italy which will contain its original ending and hitherto unseen deleted scenes that are the culmination of a three-year-long restoration process that saw the discovery of the film's original 35 mm camera and sound negatives. Sudha Tilak reports on how this restoration process transpired.
Watch Zohran Mamdani reading Umar Khalid's Notes from Jail in New York, ahead of Modi's arrival in the United States in 2023.
The Madras Courier profiles India’s Anglo-Indian community, “testament to hhybridity’s promise and complexity.”
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