Deep rot: On the Election Commission of India’s functioning during its SIR - With the SIR thoroughly vitiated, CEC Gyanesh Kumar must resign

Channel
The Hindu Opinion
@The_Hindu_Editorial_News
On this record: Topic · Growth · Engagement · What this channel posts · Reactions · Posts · Telegram's recommendations · Cite this entry
51,223subscribers
-544 since we began measuring on 10 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of 31,623–100,000.
Register entry
| Telegram ID | -1001878439408 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @The_Hindu_Editorial_News |
| Description | Official The Hindu Telegram Channel for Exclusive Editorial News Updates from The Hindu Editorial Desk |
| Created | Between 1 October 2022 and 30 September 2023 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 10 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 18 September 2026 |
| Measurements held | 28 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 18 September 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/The_Hindu_Editorial_News |
Topic
National news — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 9 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 92% confidence. This is a model’s judgement about what the channel is likely to be about, not a fact this register measured the way a subscriber count or a view count is measured — it can be revised on a later pass, and it carries no weight anywhere else on this page. How this classification works, and why it has no browse page of its own yet.
Growth
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 18 Sept 2026, 12:36 | 51,223 | -27 |
| 16 Sept 2026, 07:18 | 51,250 | -10 |
| 14 Sept 2026, 14:17 | 51,260 | +1 |
| 13 Sept 2026, 03:37 | 51,259 | -50 |
| 11 Sept 2026, 06:41 | 51,309 | -61 |
| 8 Sept 2026, 09:19 | 51,370 | -76 |
| 5 Sept 2026, 06:00 | 51,446 | -15 |
| 3 Sept 2026, 14:20 | 51,461 | -19 |
| 2 Sept 2026, 09:17 | 51,480 | -26 |
| 1 Sept 2026, 06:08 | 51,506 | -26 |
| 31 Aug 2026, 08:47 | 51,532 | -32 |
| 30 Aug 2026, 05:46 | 51,564 | -37 |
| 29 Aug 2026, 03:56 | 51,601 | -31 |
| 28 Aug 2026, 01:14 | 51,632 | -13 |
| 26 Aug 2026, 23:08 | 51,645 | -12 |
| 26 Aug 2026, 00:24 | 51,657 | -11 |
| 24 Aug 2026, 21:29 | 51,668 | -25 |
| 23 Aug 2026, 07:58 | 51,693 | -17 |
| 21 Aug 2026, 16:03 | 51,710 | -17 |
| 19 Aug 2026, 17:21 | 51,727 | first reading |
Engagement
251 posts held, back to 7 August 2026 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 87 pages of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
- ERR · 30 days
- 3.40%
- avg views ÷ 51,223 subscribers
- Avg views / post
- 1,740
- 161 posts measured
- Reaction rate
- 0.138%
- reactions ÷ views · ER floor
- Posts in window
- 161
- of 251 held
ERR is average views per post over the last 30 days divided by subscribers, the definition TGStat uses, so this figure is comparable with the one you will see elsewhere. It falls structurally as a channel grows: a high ERR on a small channel and a low one on a large channel describe reach mathematics, not quality. We publish the figure and the sample it came from and pass no verdict on it.
ER is defined industry-wide as (forwards + reactions + comments) ÷ views — note the denominator is views, not subscribers. Telegram’s public web preview carries views and reactions but not forward or comment counts, so the reaction rate above is the reactions term only and is therefore a floor: the true ER for this channel is higher by an amount we have not measured and will not estimate. It is computed over the 116 of 161 measured posts that carry a reaction reading, and over those same posts' views.
| Window | Rolling 30 days · latest post in window 24 September 2026 |
|---|---|
| Posts held | 251 (7 August 2026 – 24 September 2026) |
| Views total | 280,717 |
| Reactions total | 290 |
| Forwards / comments | not exposed by the public surface — not measured, not estimated |
| Readings taken | 24 Sept 2026, 05:04 UTC |
Views are a single reading per post, taken at the time above. A post published in the last day or two is still accumulating views, which pulls the 30-day average down slightly. That is a property of the standard definition rather than a fault in it, so we keep the definition rather than “correcting” the number into something nobody can reproduce.
Precision. Telegram publishes view counts on its public widget in short form — 8.12K, 3.7M — so any reading at or above 1,000 reaches us rounded to three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. Averages and rates derived from them are shown to the same precision rather than to the unit: a figure like 3,701,250 would assert digits nobody measured.
Reaction counts are published per emoji and rounded the same way, so a total below 1,000 is exact and a larger one is a sum that may carry a rounded component from each emoji above 1,000. Because it is a sum, it does not look rounded — read a large reaction total as three significant figures per contributing emoji rather than as the figure it prints.
What this channel posts
- Photos
- ≈1
- Links
- ≈6,550
Lifetime counters from Telegram’s own channel header, read 24 September 2026 — not the date at the top of this page, which is when the subscriber count was last read. A count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints these counters in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈142,000 means somewhere between 141,500 and 142,499.
Reaction mix
422 reactions across 169 posts, in 11 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 67.5% of them.
| Reaction | Count | Share | Share, drawn |
|---|---|---|---|
| ❤ | 285 | 67.5% | |
| 👍 | 50 | 11.8% | |
| 🤔 | 27 | 6.40% | |
| 👏 | 22 | 5.21% | |
| 👎 | 14 | 3.32% | |
| 🔥 | 13 | 3.08% | |
| 🤨 | 3 | 0.711% | |
| 🤯 | 3 | 0.711% | |
| 😐 | 2 | 0.474% | |
| 😢 | 2 | 0.474% | |
| 😨 | 1 | 0.237% |
No sentiment is inferred, and none should be read in. This table is ordered by count and by nothing else. Emoji do not carry stable meaning across languages or communities — 🙏 is thanks in one channel and mourning in another — so we publish which ones were pressed and how often, and pass no judgement on what an audience meant by them.
Precision. Telegram publishes reaction counts per emoji and short-forms each one — 4.34K, 1.2M — so any single kind at or above 1,000 reaches us at three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. The shares above are ratios of those figures and carry the same error. This is also why the total here can differ slightly from a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page: both are sums of the same rounded parts, taken over samples with different edges.
Coverage. Reactions were read on 178 of the 251 sampled posts in this sample. Summed by Telegram’s own count on each post — not by adding up the per-emoji breakdown above — those same posts carry 422 reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.
Measured over the 251 most recent posts we hold, published 7 August 2026 to 24 September 2026, using the newest reading held for each. Telegram Stars are excluded: they are a payment, not a reaction, and they have their own section.
Recent posts
India and the plausible multilateralism of BRICS - The very structure of BRICS offers India space to pursue strategic autonomy amid intensifying great-power rivalries
Deep rot: On the Election Commission of India’s functioning during its SIR - With the SIR thoroughly vitiated, CEC Gyanesh Kumar must resign
Limits of the casting vote at Tata Sons - A mutual settlement is preferred to a lengthy litigation, which could spiral into uncertainty about the group’s leadership
Delhi’s infra-governance problem - PGs and coaching institutes need to be recognised as a separate category of mixed-use educational buildings under municipal and urban local body regulations
Breakdown of civic infra in India - An official who clears or knowingly ignores an unauthorised structure should face the same consequences as the owners who built it
Reiterating the basics of criminalisation - For a society like ours which is used to ‘name-calling’ at will (deshdrohi, ‘urban naxal’ etc), it is very important to understand the value of clearly defining categories such as ‘crime’ or ‘offence’
❤3
Freezing democracy: On the Election Commission of India and West Bengal - The Election Commission of India is functioning as a tool of the Bharatiya Janata Party in West Bengal
Steve Smith returns to South Africa: Between the deed and the redemption falls the shadow - Smith, who is a modern great, but this focus on what his action did to him rather than to his team or the game throws light on the gap between self-obsession and self-awareness
❤3
Haifa — a century-old battle, the politics of memory - The Battle of Haifa represents India’s global military legacy, even as it lays bare the moral complexities of the empire
🤯1
Freezing democracy: On the Election Commission of India and West Bengal - The Election Commission of India is functioning as a tool of the Bharatiya Janata Party in West Bengal
🤔1
Breakdown of civic infra in India - An official who clears or knowingly ignores an unauthorised structure should face the same consequences as the owners who built it
❤4
Showing the 12 most recent of 251 posts we hold for @The_Hindu_Editorial_News. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
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Cite this entry
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 18 September 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“The Hindu Opinion” (@The_Hindu_Editorial_News), 51,223 subscribers as measured 18 September 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/The_Hindu_Editorial_News.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.