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Thugs in Khaki Lying, rape, looting, and the stealing of a vote: the method of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh Oct 8, 2026 In April the electoral rolls for West Bengal came back from revision with nine million names gone out of them. The Bharatiya Janata Party won 207 of the state's 294 seats. On 105 of those seats, half of everything it took, more voters had been struck off than the margin by which the seat was won. Of the nine million, 2.7 million stood suspended for what the Election Commission called logical discrepancies, and most of those people were still waiting on a ruling when the booths opened, the Supreme Court's intervention notwithstanding. The heaviest cutting was done in the constituencies where Muslims live ( Sen, ISAS ; Scroll ). That is my state. My grandmother's village is on that register, and the names that went missing are names whose shape I know. A roll is not a tally. It is the list of who counts as a person in a place, and the Rashtriya ...

    ESSAY   ·   ACADEMIC FREEDOM IN AOTEAROA The Fault of His Own Pen What the Free Speech Union calls academic freedom depends entirely on who is holding the pen Mohan J. Dutta    ·    6 October 2026    ·    culture-centered.blogspot.com   On 22 September 2026 the Free Speech Union declared a crisis of academic freedom at Massey University. Fourteen months earlier, a man on its council published an essay instructing a university that my work should be stripped of academic standing and that I should be kept away from state-funded research. Both documents are public. Set them side by side and the union's principle dissolves in front of you. THE PRINCIPLE, STATED IN PUBLIC On 22 September 2026 the Free Speech Union published this. EXHIBIT A Free Speech Union (@NZFreeSpeech), 22 September 2026 The union states its principle in public, and quotes the statute that carries i...

  The Watchlist Comes to Takanini A candidate for Parliament, four posts about me, and the crowd that arrives afterwards. Mohan J. Dutta — Palmerston North On 12 September 2025 a man who wants a seat in the New Zealand Parliament took a clip of me talking into a camera, put his own caption on it, and sent it to a hundred and fifty thousand people. The caption read: Leftist academic, Mohan Dutta, is Professor of Communication at Massey University. Here he runs with Far Left narratives that are both nonsensical and extreme: Read the punctuation. The sentence ends on a colon. It hands off. Everything after it is me, cropped and captioned and stripped of what came before, and the reader is invited to supply the verdict the writer has carefully declined to spell out. 12 September 2025. 720 likes, 126 reposts, 285 replies, 65 quote posts, 151,000+ views. Also pushed out as a Facebook reel. Charlie Kirk had been shot two days earlier. I said what I had been sayin...