A terrorist attacks the nation from outside the constitutional framework. An anarchist politician attacks it from within. That is why the latter can be far more dangerous. The recent outrage expressed by Trinamool Congress leaders over alleged hostility faced by MP Abhishek Banerjee during his visit to violence-hit areas in West Bengal would have evoked…
In international politics, nations often measure influence through visible symbols of power—aircraft carriers, military alliances, infrastructure projects, and billion-dollar investments. Yet some of the most consequential geopolitical victories are achieved not through what a country builds, but through the rules it writes. India’s recent success in Nepal’s hydropower sector is a compelling example. For years,…
For centuries, Bharat was a torchbearer of science, mathematics, and astronomy. Long before much of the world understood the movement of planets or complex calculations, ancient Bharatiya scholars had already laid foundations in mathematics, medicine, metallurgy and space observation. From Aryabhata to Sushruta, Bharat’s intellectual heritage was once admired globally. But history was not kind….
For nearly one-and-a-half decades, West Bengal under Mamata Banerjee and the All India Trinamool Congress was repeatedly accused of turning a blind eye to unchecked illegal infiltration from neighbouring Bangladesh. What was once dismissed by critics as “political rhetoric” now appears to have exploded into a national security concern. Reports emerging from the border districts…
The Hyderabad Cricket Association’s proposed TG20 league was supposed to be a revolution. For once, many believed Hyderabad cricket would finally escape the suffocating grip of middlemen, academy cartels, backdoor selectors, and the invisible power brokers who have reduced one of India’s proudest cricket centres into a marketplace of favouritism and manipulation. Instead, before the…
For decades, Bharat was mocked as a country that would forever remain energy-hungry, import-dependent, and technologically trailing behind the developed world. Those predictions now lie shattered under the blazing Indian sun. Bharat, under the able and decisive leadership of Narendra Modi, has officially emerged as the world’s second-largest solar power market in terms of annual…
For decades, India avoided an uncomfortable conversation. Every time concerns were raised over unchecked illegal immigration and demographic shifts in sensitive regions, the issue was either dismissed as “communal politics” or buried under the rhetoric of vote-bank secularism. The latest decision by the Union government to constitute a high-level committee to study demographic changes across…
The Union Government’s decision to reclaim the 27.3-acre land housing the Delhi Gymkhana Club has triggered outrage in elite circles, emotional appeals about “heritage,” and predictable accusations of state overreach. Yet stripped of sentimentality, the larger question confronting India is far more fundamental: can a developing nation of 140 crore people continue allowing vast tracts…
Indian politics has entered a strange and revealing phase. For years, the ecosystem opposed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi functioned with remarkable discipline. Ideological activists, diaspora influencers, selective journalists, “civil society” campaigners, digital propagandists, and opposition loyalists all moved in one coordinated direction: defeat Modi at any cost. But now, the cracks are visible. And…
In my view, one of the gravest dangers confronting Indian democracy today is not merely corruption, political confrontation, or institutional friction. Democracies are designed to withstand all that. The real danger begins when institutions entrusted with protecting constitutional morality themselves begin attracting public suspicion. Once that happens, public confidence starts eroding rapidly, and the vacuum…
