M.S Shanker

Columnist M S Shanker, Orange News 9

Will Jubilee Hills Voters Endorse Revanth’s Attack on Operation Sindoor?

In the run-up to the crucial Jubilee Hills bypoll, Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy has chosen a deeply controversial political script — questioning the Indian Army’s recent Operation Sindoor, a successful counter-terror action across the border that the nation widely saluted. Linking national security with local electoral arithmetic is dangerous territory. But to many…

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Columnist M S Shanker, Orange News 9

Saffron Surge in Telugu States

For decades, the politics of the Telugu states were a closed club — dominated by regional satraps and sustained by welfare populism and caste arithmetic. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), once dismissed as a northern import, has now stormed into this once impregnable arena, changing the tone, texture, and trajectory of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana…

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Columnist M S Shanker, Orange News 9

Time for Hindus to Unite

It’s election season again — that time when suddenly every political party discovers the existence of “minorities.” And by minorities, of course, they mean only one community — Muslims. The rest, like Jains, Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists, or Parsis, might as well be invisible. Their votes apparently don’t come in bulk or swing margins. Political mathematics,…

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Columnist M S Shanker, Orange News 9

Who’ll Split Whose Votes?

Why Bihar’s Minority Math May Seal NDA’s Fate — Not INDIA’s As Bihar heads toward its crucial assembly polls, all eyes are on the state’s most unpredictable vote bank — the 18% Muslim electorate. The battle lines are drawn, alliances are firm, and the question echoing through Patna’s humid air is deceptively simple: Who’ll split…

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Columnist M S Shanker, Orange News 9

Lordships Need Introspection

When the news broke that a Delhi High Court judge’s residence had turned into a vault of burnt currency, India didn’t just see a fire—it saw the moral decay of an institution once revered as the last bastion of integrity. Instead of ordering a police investigation, the Chief Justice of India chose an “internal inquiry”….

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Columnist M S Shanker, Orange News 9

NDA’s Bihar Comeback Looks Unstoppable

Bihar’s political script for 2025 seems to be writing itself — and the ending increasingly appears to favour the NDA. While confusion and friction continue to dominate the Congress-led INDI alliance, the Nitish Kumar–Narendra Modi combine has already moved into campaign overdrive with clarity, coordination, and confidence. The contrast could not be starker. On one…

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