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r/CriticalThinkingIndia • • Apr 13 '26

MOD POSTSšŸ“£ Raising the Bar: Setting better standards because YOU deserve it

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r/CriticalThinkingIndia • • 7h ago

Ask CTI If a child is being prevented from reaching a hospital for medical treatment, it is a matter of serious concern. And if something happens to the child, Godi Media will jump into action and run a full-blown propaganda campaign, blaming the protest for the child’s death.

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r/CriticalThinkingIndia • • 3h ago

Philosophy, Ethics & Dharma "Doesn't your daughter not have any Hindu friends? Why is she with a Muslim boy" - Hindutva goons ask Hindu girl's parents during Dandiya Night.

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These goons never show up when it comes to demanding justice for Hindu Girls like Ankita Bhandari. And why are the police standing and not doing anything while propels liberties are being violated?

Translation: The girl requests them to not film her. The man with the camera says he will not film her but film the boy and the man on call. The man talking on the phone finds out the mother knows. He lectures her mother to not come to him if her daughter falls victim to Love Jihad.

The call is interrupted by another call. He says on the 2nd call that he has caught many non-Hindus. He tells the caller to stop the event. The girl is apologizing to the boy.

He continues the call. It is revealed that the boy is like her brother. The girl is insisting on not taking the boy to the police. The man then says that it is goddess's festival and they should not have sent a Muslim boy.

The man then calls the tent guy.

https://x.com/RajatJain/status/2111190742630871345


r/CriticalThinkingIndia • • 6h ago

Elections & Democracy Democratic Protests = Regime Change but Buying MLAs and MPs = Mother of Democracy

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r/CriticalThinkingIndia • • 1h ago

History & Culture Modi has completely destroyed Hinduism. Now all of our festivals are for him and his propaganda

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r/CriticalThinkingIndia • • 10h ago

Elections & Democracy Protests outside high commission of India, demanding electoral integrity and resignation of gyanesh Kumar.

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Every democracy stands on "free & fair elections". Electoral integrity is the prime most thing for a healthy democracy. If people will start to lose "faith" in the electoral process, and won't respect the mandate, then indian parliamentary democracy can't survive.

It is good to see that our overseas Indians are aware about this fact and standing with Indian youth, who are opposing this tyranny govt. In my opinion, every overseas indian should be concerned about this election commission fuss. Coz it hurts everyone equally. Most of them have their families, house, business and even votes in india. They all are part of this nation. And again it's really good to see them protesting. UK STANDS WITH INDIAāœŠšŸ»

Anayay se azadi

Shoshan se azadi

Punjiwad se azadi

Fasiwad se azadi

Sanghiwad se azadi

R$$ se azadi

Bjp se azadi

Tum police bulalo, azadi

Tum lathi maaro, azadi

Tum goli chalalo, azadi

Tum jail mein daalo, azadi

Hum ladkar lenge azadi

Hum chhinn ke lenge azadi

Hai hakk hamara, azadi

Hum gaake rahenge azadi

Tum kuch bhi karlo, azadiāœŠšŸ»šŸ”„


r/CriticalThinkingIndia • • 5h ago

Elections & Democracy Yesterday, ECI councel in SC said we lost the vote counting video in an assembly election dispute case. Is election commission hiding something?

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Yesterday, supreme court reprimanded election commission of India for not producing election counting video.

It's an election results related dispute matter in supreme cout. In which, the congress candidate T D rajegoda had won the sringeri assembly seat in Karnataka by a margin of 201 votes. But the bjp candidate challenged this in the Karnataka high court. The high court ordered a recount of postal ballot votes and re-verification of 279 rejected postal ballot votes. In recounting, the congress candidate lost the election by 255 votes.

Then the congress candidate approached the supreme court contending that the high court had only ordered the re-verification of 279 rejected postal ballots, but the returning official illegally reconsidered more postal ballots, which had gone to the BJP candidate.

Then, the supreme court asked for "observers report" as well as the video recordings of 2023 vote counting and recent counting.

The ECI councel said, it was unable to find the video of 2023 counting. To this, the visibly annoyed bench said "how can ECI say that it has lost the its record? Your whole purpose is to hold elections, and you need to have a document... There is no custody of record.

Then bench said... "Whatever there is, produce by the next date of hearing. Otherwise, we will have to draw adverse inference against you. We will not accept these kind of lame excuse".

As per election rules, ECI has to maintain all the rules related to elections for 45 days from the election result. If there is any legal dispute emerge regarding election, then it will preserve all the records related to that dispute as long as case is not settled. And any petition related to election dispute can be filled within 45 days.

So, how can election commission say that they have no record? Are they above the law? Or are they trying to hide something?

The integrity of the election commission is the all time lowest, people are losing faith in electoral democracy. We need to save it.


r/CriticalThinkingIndia • • 4h ago

Critical Analysis & Discussion Where is our media headed? Interviewing AI Ram and Sita for an AI drama RRRR.

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I’ve always had my issues with sloppy AI dramas, but watching one of the biggest media outlets making one, and even going on to ā€œinterviewā€ these AI ā€œactorsā€ has me flabbergasted, but not shocked. Our standard of journalism has deteriorated so much - it’s concerning. Not only this, but this drama was deemed so consequential that the Maharashtra CM was invited to inaugurate it. No matter where we are in the political spectrum, I believe we can all agree that there are MULTIPLE very important issues going on in our country that deserve coverage. There was a time we’d see journalists investigate corruption, social issues, food safety, etc. Anjana is one of the biggest journalists in this country, with an immense reach, and platform - it’s disheartening to see this is how she chooses to use her platform and influence.


r/CriticalThinkingIndia • • 20h ago

News & Current Affairs Something to think about.

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r/CriticalThinkingIndia • • 5h ago

Law, Rights & Society Rajdeep Sardesai retorts Baramati MP

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Recently Baramati MP Supriya Sule spoke about undeclared emergency which was vociferously retorted by Rajdeep Sardesai.

Interesting aspect is, she seems to have forgotten what her party's govt did in Maharashtra, which was in power at the time of covid. For those who are unaware, undivded NCP was a part of MVA, which included undivided Shiv Sena and INC and it's govt was headed by Uddhav Thackeray. Additionally her party also handled the home ministry portfolio.

But when Baramati MP speaks in this manner, she should also answer what her govt did when a Marathi actress named Ketaki Chitale, shared a post which mocked Baramati MP's father and NCP supremo. The actress for sharing the post was jailed for a month.

Similarly there exists a political analyst named Bhau Torsekar, he used to appear for a Marathi YouTube channel named The Postman. In one of the videos for the channel, a YouTube user in that comment mocked NCP supremo.

Eventually a case was filed against the political analyst citing that it threatened the life of NCP Supremo.

An ex military personnel was also attacked when he shared a cartoon which poked fun at Uddhav Thackeray.

In the context of these cases, did her govt declare an undeclared emergency.


r/CriticalThinkingIndia • • 1d ago

Elections & Democracy Today at CP delhi, students in large numbers showed up again even after having heavy police presence.

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r/CriticalThinkingIndia • • 6h ago

Elections & Democracy Gyanesh Kumar’s haunting past: The controversies behind his rise to Chief Election Commissioner

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r/CriticalThinkingIndia • • 20h ago

Ask CTI As a Delhi resident, I can definitely relate to this guy. Every time I’ve interacted with Delhi Police or Delhi Traffic Police, they act like they own the city or something. The way they talk to ordinary citizens is already so disrespectful. Imagine how they must be treating the protesters.

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r/CriticalThinkingIndia • • 8h ago

Business & Economy India has more Restrictive Labor Law than Germany - Marginal REVOLUTION

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r/CriticalThinkingIndia • • 19h ago

Law, Rights & Society Know your rights Part 3!!! DO NOT SIGN THESE ILLEGAL BONDS BY THE POLICE. WAIT TO BE PRODUCED IN A COURT OF LAW. THE POLICE ARE EXECUTIVES - NOT THE JUDICIARY and subject to the same restrictions as the people.

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1) The bonds themselves are not necessarily unlawful if signed in front of a magistrate, but using those bonds to prohibit future peaceful protests, or treating participation in a peaceful demonstration as an automatic breach, would be constitutionally untenable.

2) Section 126 gives the authority to an Executive Magistrate, not ordinarily to a police officer acting independently. Police can initiate preventive action and place information before the magistrate. Section 170 permits preventive arrest only where an officer knows of a design to commit a cognisable offense and believes that it cannot otherwise be prevented. Such arrest cannot ordinarily extend beyond 24 hours without separate legal authorization.

3) Keeping the peace is not the same as refraining from protest. The prescribed peace bond language in Form 13 prohibits committing a breach of peace or acts likely to occasion one. It does not prohibit attending political gatherings, shouting lawful slogans, or expressing disagreement with the government.


r/CriticalThinkingIndia • • 1d ago

News & Current Affairs Waving the Tiranga is not a crime, so why fear a peaceful march?

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r/CriticalThinkingIndia • • 18h ago

Critical Analysis & Discussion " No proof " Against CEC, they said...šŸ˜µā€šŸ’«šŸ˜µā€šŸ’«

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lmao the "no proof of fraud" crowd is really out here typing paragraphs while the receipts are literally on front pages. cute.just watched the video of Aakash banerjee and let me break it down for y'all..

so first off,the known, 13 crore names gone from the voter list. 14% of the electorate. the 2024 election difference between NDA and INDIA bloc was like 2%. so either 13 crore people just decided to vanish or someone's playing games. 9.5 crore marked "absent/shifted" like they're npcs that despawned. 2.7 crore "dead." 1 crore "duplicates." no new law, no NRC notification, just a centralized software. totally normal democracy stuff.

then UP's ERO Net software auto-generated 85,854 deletion forms. without any citizen application. without any speaking order. why? because someone typed "A" instead of "H" somewhere. digital india moment fr. the UP CEO went on camera and said "13 crore voters, 85,000 complaints is very minor." minor for him. not for the 85,000 people about to lose their voting rights over a typo.

odisha? bhadrak. BJP booth agents filed mass deletion forms exclusively targeting muslim-majority booths. 30+ booths with 90%+ muslim voters got hit. one BLO found his own name on the list. told the SDM these applications are fake. nothing happened. no police action. no consequences. just prayers.

bihar's "purified" list had 14.35 lakh duplicate entries still sitting in the final roll. 3.42 lakh cases where name, relative's name, age, everything matched 100%. so duplicates stay but a single letter mismatch deletes you? interesting. also 500 people registered at one house in Pippra. one room. 500 voters of different castes and religions. ECI software didn't catch that either. a ward councillor spent two months trying to remove his dead parents from the list. they stayed. he couldn't vote. make it make sense.

UP had 71.38 lakh Form 6 applications but 84.3 lakh additions in the final roll. 12-13 lakh extra people added from nowhere. journalist asked the UP CEO where they came from. he said "we don't run a consultancy service" and hung up.

delhi: ECI rules say 2%+ deletions in a booth is abnormal and ERO must verify. only 51 out of 14,947 booths had under 2%. 639 booths had 50%+ deletions. half the voters in those booths gone. one administrative exercise.

and the U-turns? comedy gold.

started with 33 lakh notices in Delhi asking people to prove citizenship. Supreme Court asked for justification. ECI panicked and said "actually BLOs will come home." except they don't have enough BLOs. took that back too.

then WhatsApp messages to BLOs asking them to sign clearance certificates without checking documents. found ho ke certificate. case close.

bengal: 58 lakh voters put in "absent/shifted/dead" category. 27 lakh names cut. 22 lakh appeals. ECI quietly reversed it. now BLOs will re-add them. elections already done though. convenient.

ECI was sending locked non-readable PDFs to parties then saying "find the fraud yourself." now suddenly giving machine-readable lists. no reason. totally voluntary.

goa: 97 voters couldn't get names back because Delhi ECI officials were controlling software. had to be publicly embarrassed into fixing it.

meanwhile CJP protested. rahul gandhi marched to SC. INDIA bloc showed up. government detained 3,000-7,000 people in one weekend. arrested journalists. RSF said 16 media persons detained. Jantar Mantar de-notified. das and ranka sent to tihar for five days over a tricolour. why? because the protests are working. the U-turns prove it.

and the supreme court? during emergency they stayed silent. same energy now. justice bagchi questioned bengal deletions but court upheld SIR in may and won't suspend kumar before hearing him. so the man accused of the biggest voter roll fraud since emergency gets to keep his job while the court "considers" things.

so yeah. 13 crore names deleted. 85,000 auto-generated deletion forms in UP. 50%+ deletions in 639 delhi booths. muslim booths targeted in odisha. 500 people in one room in bihar. dead people staying on lists while living people can't vote. ECI doing U-turn after U-turn because they got caught. thousands detained. journalists arrested. leaders in tihar. supreme court watching silently.

and some re telling me there's no evidence?

the only thing missing is gyanesh kumar's resignation letter. and that's exactly why people are still on the streetsšŸ„€šŸ„€šŸ„€

more power to them.....

PeaceāœŒļøāœŒļøāœŒļø


r/CriticalThinkingIndia • • 1d ago

Critical Analysis & Discussion Protest in uttrakhand, will system improve? NO why? Because top leaders are main culprits what we can do? Ask accountability from them

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r/CriticalThinkingIndia • • 19h ago

Critical Analysis & Discussion Was it stupid for Rahul Gandhi to go against corporate and his own party? Or an act of putting nation first?

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Rahul Gandhi’s political career—from opposing corporate land acquisitions in Niyamgiri (2008) and Bhatta Parsaul (2011) to publicly rejecting his own government’s 2013 ordinance on convicted lawmakers.

Supporters view his refusal to compromise with corporate interests or party corruption—such as advocating for tribal rights, farmer compensation, and legal integrity—as a principled choice favoring constitutional values over quick political victories.

Critics argue that alienating corporate donors, media, and party insiders weakened his political infrastructure, allowing opponents to control the narrative and crippling his election prospects.

Was this principled politics that sacrificed political gain for the greater good, or a strategic miscalculation that hurt both him and his party in the long run? What are your thoughts?


r/CriticalThinkingIndia • • 1d ago

Elections & Democracy Delhi police's new low. We need urgent police reforms.

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During cjp's protest, we have seen large scale violence by delhi police officers. They have crossed all the boundaries.

On 10 oct, they put some protesters in a police van, and travelled throughout Delhi for 1 hr. After an hour, they got off the students at a remote location, where they snatched the Mobile phones from all the students, aligned them in a line on their knees, switched off all the lights, and didn't allow lawyers to enter it.

Some police personnel sexually assaulted girls and many more.

We need urgent reforms like-:

  1. No illegal detention.

  2. Right to consult with lawyer immediately.

  3. No force against peaceful protesters.

  4. No journalist should be detained.

  5. No police personnel without name plate & police uniform.

  6. Zero tolerance policy against the police personnel, who breach any of these rules.

  7. Police's operational independence from govt.

  8. No support to any gunda.

  9. No personal comment should be made by any police personnel.


r/CriticalThinkingIndia • • 14m ago

Critical Analysis & Discussion Crony Capitalism - Pro Max!

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When former UK PM Boris Johnson came to India, he went straight to Gautam Adani. Now, American Foreign Affairs Minister Marco Rubio has made a dash to Mukesh Ambani’s house and asked his Indian counterpart to come to Mumbai. Let that sink in. What does this tell you about the current government?
The clown is compromised and reduced to sitting in the PM’s chair while his ministers are busy spreading hatred, fuelling riots and punishing Indian citizens. And we’re getting upset because Elon Musk said, ā€œDear Prime Minister Ambani, please accept my humble apologies for not realizing that you are the real boss of India.ā€
When foreign leaders land in India and their first GPS pin is Adani or Ambani, it starts looking less like diplomacy and more like a private concierge service for billionaires. The PMO is supposed to run the country, not make the world wonder who actually owns the remote control.
And now we’re offended by Elon Musk’s sarcasm? Maybe the real question isn’t why he made that joke, but why it struck such a nerve in the first place.


r/CriticalThinkingIndia • • 12h ago

Law, Rights & Society What's going on at Allen Kota's Sabal campus? Another student fight reportedly escalates into serious violence.

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Fight videos involving students at Allen's Sabal campus in Kota keep circulating online, and the latest account on r/JEENEETards describes a particularly disturbing incident on October 16.

According to the Reddit post, a fight between students allegedly escalated, with one student reportedly being struck with an air gun and suffering serious injuries. The exact circumstances and the claims circulating about what happened are still unverified.

But it raises some bigger questions.

What is happening in these coaching environments that conflicts between teenagers can escalate to this level? Are institutes doing enough to prevent repeated fights, respond to serious injuries and maintain campus security? And how much does the intense competition and pressure surrounding JEE preparation contribute to the environment?

I'm not suggesting that every Allen student behaves this way, or that academic pressure automatically causes violence. But when disturbing videos repeatedly circulate, surely the response shouldn't just be to watch, share and move on.

Are coaching institutes taking student safety seriously enough, or are we normalising violence among teenagers?

Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/JEENEETards/s/zX0mt2qxCO


r/CriticalThinkingIndia • • 7m ago

Critical Analysis & Discussion The doctrine of Jihad explained

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r/CriticalThinkingIndia • • 20m ago

Critical Analysis & Discussion A thought on OCI's in view of Imran Khan's Expulsion

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Recent expulsion of Imran Khan, while may be lawfully right, but creates a very othering of former Indian citizens. We don't have an option of dual citizenship, but we shouldn't be at such odds with them.

Should Indian govt change its attitudes towards OCIs? As per law, they are not full citizens, but straightaway expulsion is a very harsh measure. There should be some form of security for OCI's, a partial citizenship charter. This would help in maintain connection with diaspora and engage with them at a stronger level, making them feel that they have a stake in the nation. As Indian diaspora expands, the second and future generations with better connection can act as an asset.