Lives of Palestinian women under Israeli occupation; panchayat elections in West Bengal; Aadhaar, the unending security nightmare; and more.

[View this email in your browser]( Top Story [Karnataka May Not Provide a Roadmap to the 2019 Elections]( James Manor [Karnataka poses some unique problems for both the BJP and Congress. So the result there will provide some insight into the next Lok Sabha election – but only some.]( [Muslims Can Best Defend Their Rights By Fighting for Justice for All]( Omair Ahmad [If Muslims don’t speak for other marginalised groups, why should other marginalised groups speak for them?]( [Aadhaar Remains an Unending Security Nightmare for a Billion Indians]( Karan Saini [The legal battle may have drawn to a close, but when it comes to data concerns, authorities can no longer afford to pass around blame or deny security breaches.]( [The Draft National Clean Air Programme Is Spirited but Lacks Action Points]( Sarath Guttikunda [With no time-bound activities to reduce pollution, the NCAP's proposed activities are nothing but new cells, committees, trainings and workshops.]( [Announcing the Quiet Death of New India]( Harish Khare [A billion sound bites and a million comments have overwhelmed our capacity to discern, and that is why we have failed to notice the un-mourned passing away of a pretentious new political order.]( [In Karnataka’s Ballari, ‘Everyone’s Hands Are Dirty’]( Ajoy Ashirwad Mahaprashasta [All parties are fielding candidates tainted by the mining scam, and the Reddy brothers are back with greater vigour.]( [The Lives of Palestinian Women Under Israeli Occupation]( Chirag Dhara [Palestine has been under Israeli military occupation for decades. The author spent three months at the beginning of 2018 in West Bank, Palestine. Here, he writes about women’s lives in occupied Palestine.]( [So You Think You Can Make Sense of University Rankings?]( Pushkar [Though they have their uses, university rankings can cause confusion to those who follow them casually. They need to be understood and interpreted wisely.]( [Ambushed! Panchayat Elections in West Bengal]( Shikha Mukerjee ['Open meddling' by the TMC government, 'grassroots collaboration' by its sworn political rivals, and rulings by the Supreme Court and Calcutta HC do not bode well for the legitimacy and credibility of free and fair elections.]( [Why Manto’s Pain of the Partitioned Mind Resonates Even More Today]( Avijit Pathak [On the gifted Urdu writer's birth anniversary, it is agonising to see the recurrence of his bloody stories of the partitioned mind and its implicit brutality, normalised by the followers of Jinnah and Savarkar's divisive politics.]( [The Worries of ‘Log Kya Kahenge?’ on Mental Health]( Nikita Taniparti [The singular age-old social precept of 'what will people say' suppresses the much-needed psychological care.]( Copyright © 2018 The Wire, All rights reserved. You're getting this email because you recently subscribed to receive email digests from The Wire via our website. Our mailing address is: The Wire 13, Shaheed Bhagat Singh Marg Gole MarketNew Delhi 110001 India [Add us to your address book](//thewire.us11.list-manage.com/vcard?u=6b988b13445248b1268a308f2&id=4808224841) Want to change how you receive these emails? You can [update your preferences]( or [unsubscribe from this list](