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An estimate of the personal income tax evasion is attempted by considering total personal income, gross income of return filers, mixed incomes of agricultural landowners, income of below the poverty line population and income of above the poverty line population but below minimum tax exempt income. Tax evasion most conservatively is around 40% of personal income by about 16% of population in 2017–18.

In the absence of a strong socialist or leftist ideological alternative, various social fragments have organised independent protests and political strategies to defend their rights. However, in the absence of any sustainable social solidarity between the struggling groups, it becomes easy for the right wing to retain its domination over electoral politics. The varied democratic protests would be relevant if they also build a sustainable political alliance against the Hindutva forces.

A survivor of sexual assault as a child imagines what it might have been like to go to court as a 12-year-old, in light of the Bombay High Court’s recent judgment.