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I don't know if this is the apt sub to post this, but I wanted to get it off my chest.
I know there’s conspicuous online hostility between a few Nepalis and Indians. People on both sides love to spew hate, drop slurs, and provoke each other for a few likes and clicks. But that toxic online noise doesn't reflect the real spirit between our nations.
Deep down, whenever Nepal goes through tough times, India is consistently among the first to extend a helpful and benevolent hand. That solidarity means a lot to us, and it deserves genuine gratitude.
Neighbours are supposed to back each other up. Instead of getting dragged into religious wars, toxic animosity, and hate with our other South Asian neighbours, we need to choose unity for the greater good. Toxic voices will always exist, but we don't have to let them polarize us.
Let’s ignore the internet hate, move past religious and cultural divisions, and focus on mutual respect and peaceful co-existence. Thank you to everyone who continues to choose kindness over hatred.hatred.
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TL;DR: The Karnataka CEO has published the 2026 draft electoral rolls online, containing voters' names, age, gender, residential address, and father/spouse details at the polling-station level, with PDFs downloadable across the state. The ASDDO (Absentee, Shifted, Dead, Duplicate, or Official-list electors) data was also made publicly accessible through Google Drive. While electoral rolls need to be transparent and publicly accessible, I question whether unrestricted online access and bulk downloading of this amount of personally identifying information is necessary or proportionate, and whether stronger privacy/security controls should be in place. ECI already provides individual voter lookup functionality, so I believe there are ways to preserve electoral transparency while significantly reducing the risk of mass harvesting, profiling, stalking and doxxing.
On August 24, 2026, the Office of the Chief Electoral Officer of Karnataka published the Draft Electoral Rolls, following the earlier publication of the ASDDO list at the polling-booth level for the entire state. Both datasets have been made accessible online for anyone to view and download. This creates a significant privacy and security issue for the citizens of Karnataka.
Data currently published by the CEO of Karnataka on their website [1] contains the following electors' information at the polling booth level:
This is a very powerful dataset that can be used for identity correlation and doxxing. Any bad actor can potentially combine the electoral roll information with social media, data-broker information (available for purchase), leaked databases, property records, and other publicly available information to identify, profile, stalk, or worse harm someone.
The bigger concern is the scale and permanence of this disclosure. Once these PDFs are downloaded for the entire state, they can be copied, indexed, mirrored, sold, combined with other datasets, and redistributed indefinitely. Removing the original files later would not undo that exposure.
Exposing the Address in combination with Name, Father/Spouse's Name, and Gender creates significant risks for:
As of this moment, the PDF files of all electors across the state can be downloaded by selecting the Constituency, selecting the Polling Booth(s), entering a CAPTCHA and hitting the download button. Furthermore, the website allows for download of every polling booth across the entire state one constituency at a time. Also, ASDDO data was made publicly accessible through Google Drive. Anyone with access to the internet, including criminals, stalkers, commercial data brokers, political organizations, and other third parties, can potentially obtain this data.
Article 21 of the constitution provides for a right to privacy. Additionally, the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (DPDP) regulates the processing of digital personal data while also providing exemptions for publicly mandatory data under Section 17 of the Act. DPDP Act framework is being brought into force in phases. However, controls for privacy protection put in place by the Election Commission of India appear to be insufficient. Now the public has to deal with the implications of publishing this online for all to see.
Today, ECI already provides a tool for individual voters to search their information with "Search Your Name in Voter List". The Election Commission could use the same platform and expand it to transparently make available voters lists to authorised recipients by setting up controls not limited to the following:
Now that we are here, it is up to each and every one of us in civil society to engage with your MP, ECI, and MLA to get them to fix their error and not repeat it in other states. Reach out to your MP, MLA, and news media.
Disclaimer: I would like to clarify that this is not a political post and as a security researcher, I am trying to bring the actual issue to notice and want it addressed.
[1] https://ceo.karnataka.gov.in/en
[2] https://egazette.gov.in/WriteReadData/2023/248045.pdf
Example ASDDO Google Drive: [REDACTED] (Available directly from CEO website)
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The egg we eat is an unfertilized egg.
Hens lay eggs on a roughly 24–26 hour cycle whether or not a rooster is anywhere near them—that’s their reproductive cycle running on its own, the same way a woman ovulates without a partner present. Commercial egg farms don’t even keep cocks/roosters. So the egg on your plate was never going to become a chick; no life was interrupted to produce it.
Milk is the opposite. A cow only lactates after getting pregnant and giving birth; there’s no way around this biologically. Which means every glass of milk exists because a calf was conceived. And in a dairy operation, that’s not a one-off event: cows are impregnated (usually via artificial insemination) roughly once a year to keep the milk flowing, and the calf is separated from its mother within hours or days so that the milk meant for the calf can be sold to us instead. Male calves, who won’t grow up to produce milk, are typically sold off young.
So if the test for ‘non-veg’ is ‘does this require an animal’s life to exist?’ egg fails that test less than milk does—the egg needs nothing to die or even be conceived. If the test is does this cause suffering, milk still comes out worse; it needs a pregnancy, a birth, and a forced separation of mother and offspring, repeated annually! for as long as the cow remains productive. Either way you look at it, milk is the more violent product. Egg is the odd one out for being singled out as the impure one.
And yet Indian vegetarianism—specifically the Hindu and Jain lacto-vegetarian tradition—runs exactly backwards on this. Eggs are treated as non-vegetarian and often looked down on, while milk is treated as pure, even sacred. Jains take this the furthest, on the reasoning that an egg is a potential life regardless of fertilization; Hindu lacto-vegetarianism inherited a milder version of the same logic. Buddhism doesn’t fit as neatly into this pattern as it’s often made out to—where Buddhists in South and Southeast Asia avoid eggs but drink milk, that’s usually inherited Hindu food culture rather than Buddhist teaching itself. If anything, the stricter monastic tradition points the other way: Mahayana monastics in China and Vietnam are typically vegan, avoiding milk, cream and butter right alongside meat and eggs, on the reasoning that all of it involves harm to a sentient being.
Which leaves the lacto-vegetarian position looking less like a coherent ethical stance and more of an inherited squeamishness that was never rethought about. People should sit down and compare what an egg actually costs an animal against what milk costs a cow; the egg just looks more obviously like a body part, and the milk just looks more like a gift. But looks aren’t the argument. If ahimsa—non-violence—is actually the principle at stake, it points toward drinking less milk and worrying less about the egg, not the other way round.
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I’m a 24-year-old financially independent woman from Assam, currently working remotely. I’ve decided to move out of my parental home for my career and live independently. This is my own decision; nobody has kidnapped, manipulated, or forced me.
My family has been restrictive about my education/career and there has been marriage pressure for some time. I’ve also experienced physical incidents at home, including being slapped and being hit on the head with a bottle during an argument about household chores.
I had planned to relocate for work and arranged travel/accommodation. Once my family realised I was planning to leave, things escalated rapidly. They started monitoring me, stopped allowing me to leave the house freely, took my laptop, and restricted my access to my room/belongings. Marriage discussions have also intensified.
My employer offered accommodation initially, but my family refuses to allow me to use it and insists on arranging accommodation themselves in another city. Now they're saying I can only leave if I resign from my current job, find another “good” company, get an appointment letter, and then leave.
I contacted an NGO and lawyer and submitted a written intimation to the SP stating that I am an adult leaving voluntarily. I am not trying to get my parents or sister arrested or punished. I just want to leave safely and continue my career.
Now my family knows I sought outside help, and I’m afraid that people who supported me—friends, NGO, employer—may get dragged into this. My family also has local connections, so I'm scared that even calling police may not actually help me and that I could simply be sent back home.
Right now I feel completely trapped and extremely suicidal. I don't want to die—I want to get out of this situation and live independently.
I need practical advice from people who understand situations like this:
What can an adult woman do if her family is preventing her from leaving?
What should I do if they physically stop me?
What realistically happens if I call 112?
Are there NGOs/legal-aid organisations that can provide actual local assistance?
How can I leave without unnecessarily involving my employer or friends?
Please don't just tell me to convince my parents. I've tried that. I need a safe, practical way forward.
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