SIR in Bihar and SC: An Interim Note

[Sukla Sen]

I. The election process in Bihar on the basis of the the voters' lists prepared via SIR is already on.

Nomination submission, scrutiny and withdrawal for the two-phase poll has closed.

The actual polling on November 6 and 11. Declaration of results on November 14.

II. The case in the SC is also on! 

The legality of the voters' lists being used for the election remains to be decided.

The next hearing is due on November 4. It's not too clear whether it's going to be the final hearing. The final verdict would evidently come only after that.

In the meanwhile, certain interim instructions were issued.

The most important of these is the inclusion of Aadhaar -- despite bitter opposition by the ECI -- as an additional enabling document for enrolment as a voter -- over and above the eleven documents originally listed, none of which not too many ordinary folks are expected to have.

What's important is that whether the twelfth document has been (and, much more importantly, is going to be) treated on par with the other eleven is still not clear.

Hopefully, the Court will be made to come clean on that in the coming days, specifically in the context of <https://youtu.be/iUOgIyEGsW0>.

The Court's (final) verdict will now be relevant, if at all, mostly for the subsequent phases of the SIR -- beyond Bihar.

III. The SIR Phase-II, covering 12 states and UTs has in the meantime been announced by the EC via a press conference.

Certain (marginal?) changes in the procedure vis-a-vis have been made. (The pending Court verdict, when announced, may, or may not, necessiate a few more changes.)

The process would start on November 4 and close on February 6.

(Maharashtra and Assam are not on the list.

West Bengal and Kerala are there.)

IV. In the very briefest, while the goal of the preceding Intensive Revision in 2003 was to enroll as many as voters via door-to-door surveys carried out by the ECI (with no whatever reference to the issue of "citizenship"), which the ECI did in an affidavit falsely claim to have followed to establish legitimacy for the current practice, the aim this time is exclusion, euphemistically tagged as "purification". (That, in Bihar, the claim of "purification" has been found to be just bogus is quite another, though highly relevant, matter.)

V. So, here we find a sort of surreptitious shift from "inclusion" to exclusion". Aimed at effecting a tectonic, even though unannounced, shift from universal adult franchise to some version of limited adult franchise with large arbitrary powers vested in the EC in selection (or deselection) of a voter.

VI. The resultant disenfranchisement of many would most likely pave the path for loss of citizenship itself for a number of them. (In this context, may also look up: <https://frontierweekly.com/views/dec-20/21-12-20-On%20CAA.html>.)

And that may inaugurate a far more vigorous process, accompanied with commensurate drum-beatings etc.

If that comes to pass, that'll be the final requiem for the pluralist democratic "India" that had been brought into being by the epic mass-participatory freedom struggle by unshackling the country from foreign colonial rule.

Peace Is Doable

[William Chesterton]

Guy describes a terrible trip he experienced after taking 1000ug of LSD

The trip became nearly unbearable when the voice in my head became fractured into multiple voices making me feel literally insane. My heart beat ...

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My SO and I accidentally took what we estimated to be around 1000ug on Thanksgiving one night. We’d been doing a lot of acid that summer, and thought we were taking five 100ug doses each, but we think that the person dosing the sugar cubes with liquid had done so incorrectly: you’re supposed to squeeze a drop and tap it off of the pipette. If you squeeze until the weight of the drop is enough to cause the drop to fall, it will be a lot larger.

Usually you can feel the effects of a normal dose of LSD around 30-45 minutes after dosing. After 15 minutes on this night, we both knew something was off, as we were already feeling it.

Luckily we were just in my bedroom so we put on some music and laid there listening and generally getting lost in the sauce for a bit, haha. Lots of strong visuals and geometric patterns for me: when I tried to change the music, I couldn’t, because the words on the computer screen would fly up and off of the screen, making it hard to click on the right song or album, lol. In spite of all of this I generally felt pretty okay, but think my partner had a much tougher time, at one point crying while I held him (I’ve cried plenty during trips without considering them “bad,” sometimes it’s just part of the experience and can actually be a good thing imo because it means that you’re processing some suppressed emotions, but he didn’t feel that way on that night which is also understandable).

We laid there for a while, basically meditating. I never minded this part of the trip as I was doing a lot of reading on art at the time and had plenty to occupy my thoughts. Once I was past the peak, I finally changed the damn music (haha) and pulled out some art supplies and we made art for a while, then I put on a movie. My SO eventually fell asleep (he usually fell asleep first), so I went on a walk and then came home to read before falling asleep myself eventually, albeit a sleep with admittedly weird visuals. I still felt the effects for a couple days after (not unusual even with normal doses, more pronounced in this case).

Overall I didn’t mind the experience and might try it again, KNOWING that I was taking that amount. Doing it by surprise was not ideal and we’re lucky we didn’t freak out or do anything dangerous. SO and I broke up maybe a year later but I don’t think that this was the reason, per se, just the way the wind was blowing.

Psychedelics can be a very beautiful and transformative experience but they can also be frightening and damaging. I think that many people can benefit from their use, with the right planning and preparation. If you plan to use psychedelics, exercise caution, do your research, show the drugs and your body/mind the respect that they deserve, and I hope that the experience is beneficial.

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