Ambarasan Ethirajan

The geography reaching out from 3200 kilometers from top to bottom, north to south and to deserts and snow-capped mountains and tribal areas and coastal areas. So reaching out to various communities itself is a big challenge. Now why this is important? Because India conducts census basically counting the number of people.

It's going beyond that, knowing more about how people live, what kind of house they are living in, whether they have internet access or only mobile phones. So these are some of the questions that will be asked. It is being conducted in two phases. One is an online enumeration and then next year also they will have population count.

But this is very important for India to find out how many people are there, number one, what kind of condition they are living in, so that they can frame policies. When they want to send money or announce various projects, it should be based on the number of people and what kind of condition they live in.

So it normally happens once in 10 years. The last one was in 2011. But because of the pandemic and then election scheduling, it could not happen. So that is why this is considered a very key moment for India to get a snapshot of what's happening in the country. And what about the questions on Barasan? I mean, will there be questions about caste, you know, the old social system in India that still exists?

In about a century, for the first time, they are going to ask about caste. It's a social hierarchy based on religion. So they want to know how many people from different castes are there, because India also has what you call affirmative action, reservation in educational institutions and government jobs and in various sectors.

Now if they know what kind of caste group they are living below poverty line or above poverty line, that can help the government planners to come out with policies to benefit such caste groups. It will also tell you what kind of caste groups are dominant and how many people are there. So it is a

Ja Barisan Ethirajan.

This was one of the high-profile rape cases in India at that time, between 2017 and 2019, when the details started emerging.

So this former legislator, an MLA from Uttar Pradesh state, from the governing BJP party, and he was convicted of raping a 17-year-old girl.

And later on, her family also went through very difficult times.

Her father was beaten by a group of men after she filed this complaint.

And then he died in custody while he was being held by police on a trumped-up charge.

And later on, she also met with a road accident in which two of her aunts got killed.

So this triggered outrage across the country how someone influential can behave this way.

And Kuldeep Singh Sengar, the former MLA, he was given a life term for this.

And also, he was given a tenure for culpable homicide and the subsequent case.

So when the Delhi High Court last week gave him bail and suspended his life sentence, that triggered outrage across the country.

How?

This was one of those cases which clearly saw what went wrong to this woman, how she and her family suffered.

And the court went through all the details and gave this verdict.