In Assam's evictions, Miya Muslims have not just lost homes, they have been condemned as Bangladeshis, as land-grabbing illegals. But is this so? Or are they victims of an ecological crisis the state refuses to see? Rokibuz Zaman important report scroll.in/article/108526…

Axomia Pratidin, the largest circulated Assamese daily, today carried a front page lead story on the dropping of FT cases against non Muslims. We broke the story on Tuesday.

BJP govt evicted 15,270 families – the majority of them Muslim –displacing over 70,000 people in last nine years It is not that only Muslims settle in govt land A large section of the 7.46 lakh families belong to communities considered “indigenous” to the state. Scroll.in

Our story on the ongoing wave of evictions against Miya Muslims. "Eviction kore to kore, Bangladeshi naam dei,” 54-y-o Akimon Nessa, sitting near her razed home in Hasilbeel, said. Not only do they evict us, they also brand us Bangladeshis. scroll.in/article/108526…

Autumn on the Hills by Franklin Carmichael

Page 1, Dainik Jagaran

At Scroll.in, we've been tracking voter suppression and the slow decay of ECI without pause – with data and ground reports. Here's a 🧵. Let's start in Farrukhabad lok sabha, where we reported on the bag of tricks behind BJP's thin victory margin of 2,678 votes in 2024.

Deflection and lies - not expected from a constitutional body. But then the ECI hasn’t been acting like one for a long time.

We're not reporting that the draft electoral roll has changed, Chief Electoral Officer, Bihar. We're reporting that the format has changed — from machine-readable to non-machine-readable. This is not a fact-check. This is a bald-faced denial which is demonstrably false. Scroll.in

Meanwhile, we still don't have the official casualty figures from the Uttarakhand village, not even from the army. Clampdown on information by the BJP government in the state.

Gold, gated communities and land: How rich India’s hoarding fuels inequality My column newslaundry India’s wealth gap is no mystery – but our collective shrug is. The top 1% owns 60% of household wealth, yet instead of creating, they stash it in land, gold, and gated luxury –

And now The New York Times is reporting what journalists like Rokibuz Zaman from Scroll.in have done for months: nytimes.com/2025/08/10/wor…

A roadside argument in Guwahati between two bike riders results in chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma ordering that name of the locality where the kerfuffle happened be changed. Welcome to the idiot universe. The Indian Express

Investigation: Sanitation workers conduct autopsies, proxies of squeamish physicians reluctant to touch the dead. The system reinforces and strengrhens age-old, stubborn notions of pure & impure; lack of dignity still ascribed to some jobs in modern India theprint.in/ground-reports…

What the selective outrage over stray dogs says about the moral compass of middle-class Indians A piece by Mohammad Aaquib scroll.in/article/108551…

Happy Independence day, everyone. Flashback to the time when national TV used to promote love and harmony in the country. ❤️ 🇮🇳

What better day to drop the first bit, Punjabi Trauma, from my standup solo Nothing Makes Sense. Dekhiye! 🇮🇳🇮🇳 youtu.be/OgacNVbka8M

The person linking Savarkar and Gandhi is Godse