The article discusses India’s deepening human rights struggles, highlighting systemic failures such as the financial abuse faced by DHFL victims, the weakening of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), and increasing state repression. It paints a bleak picture of diminishing freedom, from economic exploitation to a crackdown on dissent, exacerbated by biased government institutions. The piece critiques India’s slipping global human rights rankings and the silencing of civil society, reflecting on the devastating consequences for ordinary citizens in a fractured democracy.