Indian politics has for too long survived on one self-serving myth: that those who appease minorities are secular, while those who refuse to bow to votes are communal. But suddenly, the mask has slipped, not because the BJP exposed it, but because the Chief Minister of Telangana, A. Revanth Reddy, himself confessed the truth in…
When a democratically elected leader treats a national commemoration as if it were a foreign provocation, he does more than pander to politics — he erodes the fragile trust that binds the Union. Jammu & Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah’s decision to withhold permission for schools in the Union Territory to mark the 150th anniversary…
There is a growing and dangerous trend in Indian media: giving oxygen to every bizarre claim made by two leaders who thrive on misinformation—Donald Trump and Rahul Gandhi. One is the US President, Donald Trump’s desperate for relevance; the other, the forever-in-waiting crown prince of the Nehru–Gandhi dynasty, Rahul Gandhi. Both repeatedly peddle falsehoods, hoping…
Sportsmanship is the backbone of global sport. And when one nation repeatedly tramples on basic etiquette, decorum, and respect for the game, it becomes an international embarrassment that demands firm action. Today, that rogue actor is unmistakably Pakistan — more specifically, Mohsin Naqvi, Pakistan’s former Interior Minister, current PCB chairman, and by default Chairman of…
Last week witnessed a wave of bold assertions on social media claiming that the Union Home Ministry, under Amit Shah, has quietly executed 18 sweeping decisions in Jammu & Kashmir within just ten days. If true, these moves would represent a seismic shift in power dynamics, governance structures, and even the region’s demographic architecture. Yet…
When Donald Trump declared that Kirana Hills in Pakistan was poised for fresh nuclear tests, it wasn’t a moment of strategic clarity—it was a spectacle of confusion, fear-mongering, and hypocrisy. What exactly is he trying to achieve? And whom is he trying to scare? Trump insists that Pakistan is about to conduct underground nuclear tests….
The BJP loves to introduce itself as the Party with a Difference. A political reformer. A moral torchbearer. The lone crusader slaying the dragons of corruption and criminalization in Indian politics. And then reality arrives — in Bihar. As revealed on Republic TV — yes, from Arnab Goswami himself, the alleged unofficial PR manager of…
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…
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…
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,…
