Opinion | Will The ‘Maha’ Saffron Wave Push INDIA To The Brink Of A Break-Up?
In just five short months, the momentum in Indian politics has shifted dramatically. Following the BJP-led NDA’s underwhelming performance in the 2024 Lok Sabha election, questions were raised about its durability and Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s pan-national acceptability. Today, however, it is the opposition INDIA bloc that is looking distinctly fragile. The reason for the […]
Read MoreHate against the RSS is being normalised – Rahul Shivshankar
The RSS today not only has a vibrant and growing Muslim wing but works in Muslim-dominated areas too. Moreover, its rank and file is populated by Dalits, tribals, and OBCs and its reach has increased among other marginalised Indians. While an avowedly “social-cultural” organisation, the RSS has used its growing appeal to nourish and influence […]
Read MoreWhy The Economist has got it wrong on the Modi-Biden meet
The upcoming Modi-Biden diplomatic Tango in Washington D.C has all the makings of a “super summit”. President Biden is going the whole 9-yards to make Prime Minister Modi’s India feel special. The first designated “state visit” since 2009 will witness the Indian PM becoming only one of four leaders (Mandela, Churchill and Zelensky) to the […]
Read MoreWhy The Economist has got it wrong on the Modi-Biden meet
The upcoming Modi-Biden diplomatic Tango in Washington D.C has all the makings of a “super summit”. President Biden is going the whole 9-yards to make Prime Minister Modi’s India feel special. The first designated “state visit” since 2009 will witness the Indian PM becoming only one of four leaders (Mandela, Churchill and Zelensky) to the […]
Read MoreSecular Schizophrenia: Mamata and the meme fest on Modi and the Adheenam
Modi should give the opposition what it wishes for – true blue secularism and then sit back and watch the fun. Bengal’s Chief Minister and firebrand leader Mamata Banerjee and several of her cohorts in the Opposition are besides themselves with grief. They are mourning the death of Indian secularism the remains of which they […]
Read MoreIs the AAP honeymoon getting over? The party’s claims to be BJP’s toughest challenger need to pass a few tests
Two images. In one frame Aam Aadmi Party’s CM candidate for Gujarat Isudan Gadhvi cuts a forlorn figure. He has just been routed. In the other image his party boss Arvind Kejriwal is smiling, thanking the people of Gujarat for conferring ‘national party status’ upon his “chhoti si” party. Kejriwal’s AAP may have been rejected […]
Read MoreFiery violence after France trounced Morocco wasn’t random hooliganism but an obligation
Football, was once with some consideration, described as “socialism without the politics.” The phrase was said to have been minted from behind the once impregnable Iron Curtain by Polish writer ryszard kapuscinski. He wasn’t wrong, the game is within everyone’s reach. Rich, poor, black, white, upper caste, lower caste, LGBTQI, all, if they have the talent, can step […]
Read MoreShraddha reached out after Aftab abused her. But did political correctness prevent people from helping?
How does this happen? How does an enterprising, independent, liberated young woman who placed all her faith in one man end up in the refrigerator of their home chopped into 35 different pieces? Some betrayals are so diabolic that they leave you chilled to the bone, too inert to comprehend the meaning of love and […]
Read MoreIf Muslims, Europeans and Blacks can reclaim sacred spaces, why can’t Hindus?
Latest pictures may not reveal this but the Kaaba, the black cube in the centre of Mecca, Islam’s holiest site was once encircled by arched porticos erected 300 years ago by the Ottoman Turks. But in November 2014 these vestiges of Turk rule were pulverized by the Saudi government to make way for the expansion […]
Read MoreWhy aren’t Indian activists marching for Iranian women? Seeing hijab brutally imposed there, makes it harder to defend it as woman’s choice here
In May 2020 George Floyd suffocated to death under the knee of a police officer. Floyd’s pitiful stomach-churning cry “I can’t breathe” soon became a rallying cry for rights activists around the world. It was argued that the cry summed up the predicament of African Americans facing state repression in the US and millions demonstrated […]
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