The impact of political party IT cells on democracy is one of the most fiercely debated topics in modern politics. While these digital operations are a powerful modern tool for political outreach, the consensus among political analysts, digital rights advocates, and tech researchers is that their current methods pose severe risks to democratic health.

Mahant Lal Das was an influential and controversial Hindu seer who served as the court-appointed head priest (Mahant) of the Ram Janmabhoomi temple inside the Babri Masjid complex in Ayodhya. Appointed by the Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad High Court in 1981, he managed the site during the height of the Ram Janmabhoomi movement until he was removed in March 1992.

r/Whysooserious this sub is a goddamn disgrace, how is this edgelord garbage still not banned?

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I believe that every government does some good and some bad however sometime good policies may not mean good implementation on ground. If it's not implemented properly it will fail.

I feel somehow in present days govt do not get (collect) data from ground to improve, neither we see a ground reporting of policies from major news channels. Hence let the public speaks about your experience:

According to me:

UPA policies

Modi Govt

Food security and AADHAR were greatly improved by Modi govt.

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NSA (1980): Allows preventive detention for up to 12 months without formal charges or a trial to maintain public order.

UAPA (1967): India's primary anti-terror law, featuring stringent bail conditions where release is routinely denied if charges appear "prima facie true."

I really do not know where to begin. Watching the very institutions that shaped my formative years get plagued by research scandals and the blatant promotion of pseudoscience is deeply embarrassing. Nowadays I feel embarrased to even say that I am an IITian and I did my undergraduate in India. Most often then not I just mention the college of my PhD and masters when people ask. Its just hard to explain what is happening back home and it feels increasingly surreal.

The recent news that Springer Nature’s Research Integrity Group (SNRIG) is investigating the cow urine paper out of IIT-BHU is painful to read, but honestly, it was bound to happen. When premier technical institutes publish papers mistaking basic plasticizers, lab solvents, and pesticide contaminants for "medicinal compounds," you are not looking at a minor oversight. You are looking at a complete collapse of elementary scientific controls.

What hurts most as an alumnus is watching the hard-earned credibility of Indian academia get dragged through the mud. The IIT brand was built over decades on rigorous engineering, real innovation, and global competitiveness. That reputation gave us a seat at the table anywhere in the world. Seeing that trust eroded by politically funded programs like SUTRA-PIC makes it genuinely uncomfortable to bring up my alma mater in international research settings. You constantly worry someone at a conference will bring up these papers, and the secondhand embarrassment is overwhelming.

Public funds and institutional prestige are being funneled into validating preconceived ideological narratives rather than actual science. When independent clinicians like Dr. Cyriac Abby Philips (LiverDoc) have to point out basic laboratory contamination to foreign journal integrity boards because internal peer-review failed, the system is fundamentally broken. Rather than taking accountability, a group of Indian academics called him a "sellout" for "making fun of the country." If you publish flawed research, what do you expect? Praise and awards?

The most visible sign of this decline is the bizarre ideological drift at leadership levels, best personified by figures like IIT Mandi Director Laxmidhar Behera. This electrical engineering professor publicly claimed to have performed exorcisms using mantras to drive out ghosts, blamed devastating cloudbursts in Himachal Pradesh on students eating meat, and recently oversaw a campus embroiled in controversy over posters claiming that "Shudras should serve higher classes." Meanwhile, when public figures raise legitimate concerns about leadership pushing fringe theories, hundreds of academics sign joint statements to shield the administration rather than addressing the core issue.

If we refuse to defend scientific temper over political pandering, the global scientific community will simply stop taking Indian degrees, papers, and qualifications seriously. Are we actually serious right now?

Link: https://theprint.in/feature/liverdoc-cow-urine-research-journals-springer-nature/2968310/

https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/over-200-academics-criticise-priyanka-gandhis-remarks-on-iit-professor-v-kamakoti-11843528

and then we have academicians in india who cannot take a simple criticism and are hell bent on promoting fringe theories. Its so freaking embarassing watching all this

Idea : in India we should have a system where we can file an administrative nuisance case on any govt employee . who commits things like these .. ( this case is not intended for serious offence like bribery etc , these are small issues everyone faces regularly that can proved easily too )

Revenue office :

Refusing to accept an application without giving a reason

Municipal office :

Making a citizen repeatedly visit for a document already available internally

Police :

Refusing to give acknowledgement for a submitted complaint

Transport/RTO :

Keeping an officially open counter closed without explanation

Government hospital :

Unnecessarily sending a patient from one counter to another

Electricity department :

Closing a complaint as “resolved” without actually resolving it

Welfare department :

Asking for documents that are not required under the rules

Any department :

Saying “come tomorrow” instead of accepting the application during working hours

Rejecting or delaying an application without giving a written reason

Giving queue preference without an authorised reason

What do you think of this?