FREE Editorial PDF – 08 Jan 2026 | The Hindu & Indian Express | Banking • SSC • TNPSC

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The Hindu Editorials snapshot

Editorial 1

 ​Letter Against the Spirit: Election Commission Barring Foreigners

The Election Commission of India (ECI) defends its Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls—striking off millions of names—before the Supreme Court as a constitutional duty under Article 324 to ensure only citizens vote, barring even one foreigner, amid opposition, scholars, and civil society’s outcry over harassment to ordinary Indians proving identity without evidence of actual foreign infiltration. Critics argue ECI inverts priorities: its sacred mandate is enrolling every Indian citizen as a substantive right, not merely purging phantoms, as past institutional integrity grew by expanding franchise, not contracting it via partisan rules and processes that erode trust—even from losers in elections. Whipping foreigner paranoia risks facade for polarisation, punishing innocents to catch criminals, misreading constitutional letter while ignoring its spirit of inclusive democracy.

Editorial 2

The Middle Path: Tamil Nadu Assured Pension Scheme

Tamil Nadu’s DMK government launched the Tamil Nadu Assured Pension Scheme (TAPS) as a balanced compromise, fulfilling its 2021 election promise to restore pensions for 6 lakh Contributory Pension Scheme (CPS) employees since 2003—without fully reverting to the costlier Old Pension Scheme (OPS) for 2 lakh staff—by blending OPS and central Unified Pension Scheme (UPS) features like 50% last-drawn pay, minimum assured payout regardless of service length, employee contributions, and death-cum-retirement gratuity. Announced pre-April-May Assembly polls amid fiscal caution—state debt at 26.1% GSDP (down from peaks but above pre-COVID 21.5%), sluggish 3.94% Own Tax Revenue growth vs. projected 22.6% in April-September, dual OPS/TAPS burdens till 2033, and GST restructuring risks—TAPS avoids OPS flaws like Pay Commission resets. While AIADMK criticises non-fulfilment, both Dravidian parties recognise fiscal perils, post-Bihar’s election doles, urging employee understanding of prudent limits.

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The Indian Express Editorials snapshot

Editorial 3

Supreme Court Reproach: Wake-Up for Pollution Watchdog

Delhi’s chronic air pollution from vehicular exhaust, industry, construction dust, and farm fires persists year-round—not just seasonally—with varying intensity by hours, demanding precise source quantification that the 2020 Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) has failed, prompting Supreme Court rebuke for lacking definite causes and long-term AQI fixes despite its mandate. SC demands emission breakdowns per source and solutions, criticising CAQM’s reactive bans like its predecessor, poor execution via fragmented state bodies, rare subcommittee meetings, and absent real-time data for hotspots like traffic jams or unpaved roads to enable coordinated agency responses. This reproach signals Centre to fix CAQM’s structural weaknesses for proactive, accountable control.

Editorial 4

​The Slow and Ambitious Cinema of Bela Tarr

Hungarian director Bela Tarr, who died at 70, mastered slow cinema that mesmerises viewers with long shots averaging 2.5 minutes—demanding full surrender from audiences used to quick cuts—to capture life’s raw beauty, banality, and ugliness beyond mainstream patterns. His epic seven-and-a-half-hour Satantango (1994) opens with a six-minute cow herd shot in mud, The Turin Horse (2011) lingers on a coach-driver and daughter’s routine amid Nietzsche’s horse-flogging anecdote, and The Man from London (2007) meditates on guilt from Simenon’s novel, using tracking shots for immersive texture over adrenaline. Despite haunting images like a girl with a dead cat or wasteland dogs, Tarr infuses levity from collaborator Laszlo Krasznahorkai, drawing wry laughs at human flaws and fate’s dark comedy through generous vision.

Vocabulary from the Editorial: 1

Word	Simple Meaning	Synonym	Antonym
Disenfranchised	Deprived of voting rights	Stripped, excluded	Empowered
Evident	Clearly visible	Obvious, apparent	Hidden
Phantom	Imaginary or illusory	Ghostly, unreal	Real
Litmus test	Critical indicator	Acid test	Vague measure
Unleashing	Releasing forcefully	Setting loose	Restraining
Garb	Outward appearance	Guise, cover	Reality

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