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The Ballot You Could Not Read: SIR and DHFL CoC

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  The Ballot You Could Not Read: SIR and DHFL CoC From the Creditors’ Register to the Electoral Roll: The DHFL CIRP and the SIR as Twin Episodes of Managed Consent in Contemporary India (2019–2026 ) Posted on 16th July, 2026 (GMT 17:15 hrs) ABSTRACT In this essay, Once in a Blue Moon Academia draws a structural parallel between two opaque state-orchestrated processes — the 2020–21 RBI-appointed Committee of Creditors (CoC) resolution of DHFL, which extinguished over ₹4,100 crore of elderly depositors’ savings through an unverifiable electronic ballot they could neither download nor retain, and the 2025–26 Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls that deleted nearly 91 lakh names in West Bengal ahead of the Assembly elections. Both exemplify “managed consent”: the meticulous preservation of democratic and procedural rituals while systematically withdrawing verifiability, accessibility, and meaningful agency. Invoking Mīmāṃsā pramāṇas (anupalabdhi and arthāpatti) alongside...
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A Solidarity Statement for Sonam Wangchuk, Satyagrahi of the Anthropocene

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  A Solidarity Statement for Sonam Wangchuk, Satyagrahi of the Anthropocene Posted on 14th July, 2026 (GMT 19:15 hrs) ABSTRACT On the 17th day of his indefinite hunger strike at Jantar Mantar, Sonam Wangchuk continues his non-violent resistance for justice, dialogue, and ecological protection of Ladakh. Echoing Jatin Das’s 1929 martyrdom and G.D. Agarwal’s sacrifice for the Ganga, Wangchuk’s ātmaśakti exposes the Indian state’s moral deafness and hypocrisy in the face of genuine satyagraha. Invoking Tagore’s fiery Bhairava hymn — “sarva kharvatāre dahe tava krodhadāha” — this post calls for solidarity with a man who has become the moral centre of a republic that has abandoned its conscience. I. The Seventeenth Day As we write, Sonam Wangchuk — engineer, educator, glacier-keeper of Ladakh — is on the seventeenth day of an indefinite hunger strike at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi. He has lost more than eight kilograms; his muscles have begun to consume themselves; his blood pressure falls...
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