The recent fire mishap at the HPCL Rajasthan Refinery in Barmer—coming just a day before its scheduled inauguration by Prime Minister Narendra Modi—is not just unfortunate; it is deeply unsettling. Timing, in geopolitics and infrastructure, is rarely dismissed as coincidence so easily. When critical energy infrastructure is hit at such a sensitive moment, questions are…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s address on Saturday night to the nation was not just another political speech—it was a calculated moral indictment of an Opposition that, in his view, says one thing in Parliament and does another in practice. The outrage that followed, with Opposition leaders accusing him of “crocodile tears,” deserves scrutiny—not blind acceptance….
The defeat of the Women’s Reservation Bill in the Lok Sabha is not just a legislative hiccup—it is, in my view, a defining moment that exposes both the strengths and the constraints of India’s constitutional democracy. For a government that has positioned itself as decisive and reform-driven, this outcome demands introspection, recalibration, and above all,…
If Parliament is the arena where a nation’s future is debated with seriousness and substance, then Friday’s spectacle in the Lok Sabha was a sobering reminder of how quickly standards can slip when responsibility is treated as optional. What should have been a focused, high-stakes discussion on constitutional amendments to empower women instead veered into…
Bumrah clash exposes deeper cracks in the Mumbai Indians’ dressing room Let’s not sugarcoat this—something is clearly off inside the Mumbai Indians camp, and the cracks are no longer confined to whispers behind dressing room doors. They are visible, audible, and increasingly damaging on the field. This is not just about a bad run of…
In matters of national security, half-measures are a luxury India can ill afford. The decisive shift under Prime Minister Narendra Modi reflects a clear understanding of this reality: deterrence is built not on rhetoric, but on capability. Nowhere is this more evident than in the government’s sustained push to modernise the Indian Air Force (IAF)—the…
A dangerous intellectual laziness has crept into India’s public discourse—one that finds it easier to demonise an entire community than to confront the complexity of history or the realities of present-day India. The persistent targeting of Brahmins, routinely cast as the perpetual oppressor, is no longer incidental—it has become fashionable, even politically rewarding. But how…
West Bengal today stands at a dangerous crossroads—not merely politically, but demographically and institutionally. And at the heart of this churn is the increasingly desperate rhetoric of Mamata Banerjee, whose latest allegation of a “₹1,000 crore deal” to split minority votes is less a political charge and more a revealing confession of insecurity. Let’s call…
The collapse of the latest round of U.S.–Iran talks is not just another failed diplomatic exercise—it is a flashing red signal that West Asia is inching toward a far more dangerous and uncontrollable phase. After over 21 hours of negotiations, the breakdown confirmed first by J.D. Vance and subsequently by Iran’s foreign minister, exposes a…
Call it lazy modelling, call it ideological comfort, or call it a refusal to confront inconvenient data—but I see the persistence of pollsters in projecting an “edge” for the Trinamool Congress as something far more deliberate. This is not misreading anymore; this is evasion. Because when you strip away the noise, the numbers tell a…
